Kathryn Yelinek

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Heart in the Woods, fiction, Issue 55, June 2021

Kathryn Yelinek lives in Pennsylvania, where she works as a librarian. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Deep Magic, Metaphorosis, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Visit her online at www.kathrynyelinek.com.

Get to know Kathryn:

When did you start writing? I've been writing since I was a little girl, but I began to get serious about learning craft and writing for publication about 2005.

When and what and where did you first get published? When I was in elementary school, I had a poem published in a kid's column of a birdwatching magazine that my dad subscribed to. My first paid, professional publication was a nonfiction essay published in the online literary journal flashquake.

Why do you write?

I'm a shy person, and I tend to be a wall flower at parties. Writing is my way of speaking on paper. Because of this, I often write about themes of loneliness and connection.

Who is your favorite author? Your favorite story?

"Beauty" by Robin McKinley made me want to be a writer. I loved the lushness of the prose and the tenderness of the love story. As a writer, I've found myself returning again and again to the traditional fairy tale setting and to various retellings of the Beauty and the Beast tale.

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