How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales (7 page)

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Kate Bernheimer has been called “one of the living masters of the fairy tale.” She is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collections
Horse, Flower, Bird
and
How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales,
and the editor of the World Fantasy Award–winning and best-selling
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
and
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths.
She lives in Tucson, Arizona.