GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her first book, THE LUMBERJACK'S DOVE, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and her debut novel THISTLEFOOT is forthcoming from Knopf Anchor. Whether authoring novels, poems, ballads, or even fold-up paper cootie catchers, her projects are all rooted in myth—and what our stories reveal about who we are. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (often with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order on an antique typewriter with her team, The Traveling Poetry Emporium. She also conducts supernatural and historical research for the podcast Lore. Nethercott lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.