From the Book - First edition.
Foreword / by Pam Grossman --
Emily Brontë: watcher off the moors, fantasy, and cruel romance --
Octavia Butler: sower of strange seeds, species, and the future --
Shirley Jackson: witch of villages, horrors, and omens --
Eileen Chang: enchantress of bitter love, treachery, and jewels --
Sylvia Plath: fury of motherhood, marriage, and the moon --
Toni Morrison: queen of miracles, generations, and memory --
Anna Akhmatova: koldunya of winter, endurance, and willows --
Joy Harjo: cosmic traveller of crows, horses, and survival --
Flannery O'Connor: seer of peacocks, weird country people, and glass eyes --
Sappho: siren of the lyre, honey, and ruins --
Forugh Farrokhzad: rebel of sensual love, green gardens, and perfume --
Emily Dickinson: specter of windows, flies, and the unexpected --
Audre Lorde: warrior witch of otherness, bodies electric, and sisterhood --
Angela Carter: fairy godmother of bloody tales, the circus, and mirrors --
Virginia Woolf: guardian of the waters, the porcelain, and the lexicon --
Sandra Cisneros: hechicera de los nombres, las casas, y la soledad --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: soothsayer of utopias, creeping women, and evil wallpaper --
Jamaica Kincaid: sorceress of islands, venom, and histories --
Anne Carson: high priestess of scholars, volcanoes, and eros --
Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller of rattlesnakes, turquoise, and the sacred desert --
Alejandra Pizarnik: fantasma of silence, death, and lilacs --
Mirabai: dakini of holy ecstasy, the Dark One, and ankle bells --
Anaïs Nin: undine of introspection, opulent dreams, and voyages --
Gertrude Stein: madame of roses, geometry, and repetition --
Yumiko Kurahashi: sibyl of masks, extraterrestrial eggs, and twisted fantasies --
Agatha Christie: Grand Dame of trickery, murder, and teatime --
Janet Frame: hermit of hospitals, belonging, and lost souls --
María Sabina: shaman of dew, hummingbirds, and mushroom language --
Mary Shelley: alchymist of monsters, children, the living and the dead --
Zora Neale Hurston: conjurer of hurricanes, zombies, and tall tales.
