Cinders And Glass

Reimagining Classic Fairy Tales

In this collection of poems, Amanda Crum discovers new voices in old stories as she reimagines classic fairy tales. Cinders And Glass gives us Sleeping Beauty as told by a servant, Goldilocks as told by a mouse, Cinderella as told by the glass slipper. It shows us what Rapunzel does all day, how the woodsman feels about hunting Snow White, what Little Red Riding Hood thinks when she smells the wolf. Crum infuses magic into the mundane details of fairy tales, and invites us to look again at the stories with which we grew up.

Meet the Creator

Amanda Crum is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in publications such as Barren Magazine and Eastern Iowa Review and in several anthologies, including Beyond The Hill and Two Eyes Open. Her first chapbook of horror-inspired poetry, The Madness In Our Marrow, was shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award nomination in 2015; her story "A Shimmer In The Parlor" was a finalist for the J.F. Powers Prize in Short Fiction in 2019. She currently lives in Kentucky with her husband and two children.

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