Shelly Jones (they/them) is a professor at a small college in upstate New York, where they teach classes in mythology, folklore, and writing. Their speculative work has been published by F&SF, Apex, The Future Fire, and elsewhere. Find them on Twitter @shellyjansen or at https://shellyjonesphd.wordpress.com/.
Bark & Bone Contribution
The Iron Baba transplants The Iron Baba witch into an original eco-fable along with a grown-up Gretel who has never forgotten the dangers lurking in the woods. Here’s a snippet:
The men are afraid of these woods. They refuse to log here, claiming they are haunted, cursed. The last men who crested this hill, saws in hand, have returned, pale as pulp, their mouths twisted in fear. The foreman laughs when I tell him that I will go in the men’s place. He looks me up and down, scoffs at my thick skirt, not noticing the sap stains. He does not know that I have seen what this forest can do, how it can consume its own, that it no longer frightens me.
Other Publications Include:
Space Cat Press 