Mary McMyne’s debut novel, The Book of Gothel (2022), tells the story of the medieval midwife who would become known as the witch from Rapunzel. Her second novel (2024) will be the magic-infused story of Shakespeare's Dark Lady. Her poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin (2014), won the Elgin Chapbook Award. She has received the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for a Novel-in-Progress and a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, among other honors. A former English professor, she is the poetry editor for Enchanted Living and a graduate of the NYU MFA program. Find her on Instagram as @marymcmyne, or subscribe to her quarterly newsletter at marymcmyne.substack.com. NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I track most of the books I read here, but I only post ratings or reviews of select five-star reads—usually only books I blurb. I love many books I don’t rate!