"A leprechaun in the kitchen, baby dragon down the block, friendly forest deer from South America, and the Snow Queen's Unicorn teach children and the adults who love them about friendship, caring, and healthy cooking"--P. [4] of cover.
Vonnie Winslow Crist, MS Professional Writing from Towson University, has taught creative writing for Harford Community College and for the Maryland State Arts Council's Artist-in-Education Program. She's author-illustrator of The Greener Forest (fantasy stories that are YA-friendly), 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). In addition, she's author of 3 eShorts from Echelon Press: Sideshow By The Sea, Assassins, and Bells.
Currently, Vonnie is writing a column for Harford's Heart Magazine, illustrating for The Vegetarian Journal, editing The Gunpowder Review, and contributing 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 at http//www.vonniewinslowcrist.wordpress.com
Among the publications where her stories have appeared are: Faerie Magazine, Dragon's Lure - Legends of a New Age, 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), Aoife's Kiss, and www.spacewesterns.com
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.
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.
