Young Artists Project: Jeannine Hall Gailey

Jeannine Hall Gailey's first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, was published by Steel Toe Books. Poems from the book have appeared multiple times on NPR’s The Writers Almanac and Verse Daily. Two poems from Becoming the Villainess are featured in the 2007 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Griffin).

Gailey's work has also appeared in The Iowa Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, and The Evansville Review. Her chapbook, Female Comic Book Superheroes, was published by Pudding House Press. Gailey received her M.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Pacific University.

Read samples of Jeannine's poems.

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"In this splendidly entertaining debut, Jeannine Hall Gailey offers us a world both familiar and magical filled with fairytale and mythology characters that are our own bedfellows we wake up with Philomel and argue with Ophelia while half-listening to a Snow Queen, amidst Spy Girls, Amazons and Mongolian Cows. The wild and seductive energy in this collection never lets one put the book down. Her delivery is heart-breaking and refreshing, so the poems seduce us with the sadness, glory and entertainment of our very own days.  —Ilya Kaminsky, author of the award-winning Dancing in Odessa