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Cabinet des Fées is an online journal begun in 2005 as a result of our love of fairy tales in all of their manifestations. We’ve seen two issues in print with a third on the way, but now are online only. Scheherezade’s Bequest is our tri-annual offering of fiction and poetry. We keep our editorials and announcements, plus other news we come across that we think our readers might appreciate in Our Grim(m)oire, where you’ll find Storytellers, live readings of the fantastic in literature. We also present essays from and interviews with respected authors, editors, scholars and other assorted personalities in the fields of fairy tales, folklore and myth.

We are:

Helen Pilinovsky: recently completed her dissertation, Fantastic Émigrés: Translation and Acculturation of the Fairy Tale in a Literary Diaspora, at Columbia University, and is now a professor at California State University, San Bernadino. Her reviews have appeared in Marvels & Tales: the Journal of Fairy Tale Studies and in the New York Review of Science Fiction, and she has been published at the Endicott Studio for the Mythic Arts, in Realms of Fantasy magazine and in a selection of academic journals, with articles on postmodern fairy tales and Alice in Wonderland forthcoming in 2009. She has guest-edited issues of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and Extrapolations and she co-edits Cabinet des Fées.

Erzebet YellowBoy: artist, author, editor and bookbinder. Her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Not One of Us, Jabberwocky 2, Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, Mythic and others. Her poetry has appeared in Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit and the Book of Hope, published by Beyond Borders. Her first novel, The Bone Whistle, was released in 2007 by Juno Books. In 2001 she founded Papaveria Press, a private press specializing in fairy tales and fantastic visions. When she is not writing or binding books, she plays with bones, using natural elements to reshape and revisit myth and folktales. A sampling of her work can be seen here.

Donna Quattrone: a long-haired geek girl with several degrees in language and literature. She has escaped academia, but still remains language-haunted and completely dedicated to making cryptic remarks in red pen. She is a native of Bucks County, PA, where she honors the local creative tradition by playing with pencils and paint, wood things and words. Whether it be on the canvas or on the page, her work is shaped by mythology and magical realism, folklore, fairy tales and the fantastic. She is a long-time contributor to Cabinet des Fées and her work can also be found online at Mytholog and Les Bonne Fees and in her Etsy shop at DQdesigns. Donna owns a ridiculous amount of black boots, drinks too much tea, and is a late blooming garden addict. She lives in a house that doubles as a library, currently guarded by griffins disguised as housecats. Apparently a Pun Fairy lives there, as well.

Nin Harris: a Ph.d. student with a lifelong obsession for fairytales, folklore and mythology. Her M.A. dissertation looked at how mythic rituals were encoded within Angela Carter’s appropriation of fairytales. Her current doctoral dissertation pertains to the postcolonial gothic within the works of Helen Oyeyemi and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, with a focus on narrative and mythic tropes. Nin is a poet, writer of gothic/mythopoeic fiction, a composer of experimental music and a visual artist. She sometimes dreams in html/css/php. She suspects she’ll try any storytelling medium at least once. She has been published in Jabberwocky 3, The Harrow and is an occasional book reviewer for m/c reviews.

We would also like to thank Mike Allen, editor of Mythic Delirium, Mythic and the fiction anthology Clockwork Phoenix, for his patience and assistance in designing the print issues of Cabinet des Fées, and Aria Nadii for her eternal patience in assisting us with Wordpress installations and management.