In The Greener Forest anything is possible. Silver maples sing in angel-song. Spriggans skulk about cypress knees and wreak havoc at an amusement park. The Applehead Lady's true identity is revealed by moonlight filtering through the branches of an ancient tree. A scarecrow finds true love in an ash grove. And a wayward beech tree root sends a woman into the arms of a kindhearted giant. These stories and more lead the reader into the depths of The Greener Forest, where Faerie and the everyday world collide. There is dark and light, evil and good, and uncertain dusky gray lurking between the pages of this book. Discover that all is not what it seems at first glance and wondrous things still happen in The Greener Forest.
Vonnie Winslow Crist, MS Professional Writing from Towson University, has taught creative writing for Harford Community College and for Maryland State Arts Council's Artist-in-Education Program. She's author-illustrator of The Greener Forest (fantasy stories, YA-friendly), Blame it on the Trees (fantasy eShort), Leprechaun Cake & Other Tales (children's book), Essential Fables (poetry), and River of Stars (poetry), and editor of 2 science fiction/ fantasy/ horror anthologies (Lower Than The Angels and Through A Glass Darkly). Owl Light, her next book from Cold Moon Press, will be available late spring 2012.
Vonnie writes a column for Harford's Heart Magazine, illustrates for The Vegetarian Journal, edits The Gunpowder Review, and contributes to Faerie Magazine. She's a Writer & Illustrator member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, a Letters & Art member of the National League of American Pen Women, an avid JRR Tolkien fan, and a firm believer in the magical world that surrounds us! She's also quite fond of Harry Potter & Hogwarts, The Hunger Games, Star Wars, Star Trek, and everything Fairy! Visit her at http://www.vonniewinslowcrist.com or check out her blog, Whimsical Words, at http//www.vonniewinslowcrist.wordpress.com
Among the publications where her stories have appeared are: Faerie Magazine, Dragon's Lure, Tales of the Talisman, Dia de los Muertos, Shelter of Daylight, Potter's Field 4, Cemetery Moon, Sideshow 2, While the Morning Stars Sing, & Ensorcelled Magazine (UK).
Among the publications where her poems have appeared are: Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, In the Garden of the Crow, Illumen, Scifaikuest, Life in Me like Grass on Fire, Paper Crow, Loch Raven Review, Manorborn, Champagne Shivers, Ancient Paths, The Chesapeake Reader, Seasongs, and EMG-Zine.
Among the publications where her essays and articles have appeared are: Faerie Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, and Manorborn.
Her paintings have recently appeared as cover art for Aoife's Kiss and Scifaikuest, and are due to appear in spring 2012 as cover art for Illumen and Bards & Sages Magazine.
You can also view her illustrations in the following books: Woe Is Me & My Birthday Tree by Diane Kelly; both the Lean & Luscious and Meatless Gourmet cookbook series by Bobbie Hinman; Oat Cuisine by Bobbie Hinman; Simple, Lowfat & Vegetarian; Beautiful Land Across the Waters and A Fine Thin Thread by Virginia Aten Pritchett; Signals; Margaret-Remembering A Life That Was Poetry; The Day Sara's Sneakers Sneaked Away and Keeping Memories Alive by MiMi Zannino, and others.
