Women Born with Fur and Out from the Pleiades: Two Novellas

Beth Couture (Women Born with Fur) received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the Center Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, MFA from University of Notre Dame, MA from SUNY-Binghamton, and Bachelor’s from Hollins University. Her fiction has appeared in Gargoyle, The Southeast Review, The Georgetown Review, Drunken Boat, The Yalobusha Review, Ragazine, and in the anthology, Thirty Under Thirty. She currently lives in Philadelphia and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Social Work at Bryn Mawr College.

Leslie McGrath (Out from the Pleiades) won the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for poetry. Her books include the poetry collection, Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (2009) and two chapbooks: Toward Anguish (2007) and By the Windpipe (2014.) Her interviews with poets appear regularly in The Writer’s Chronicle. She teaches creative writing and literature at Central Connecticut State University, and is series editor of The Tenth Gate, a new poetry imprint of The Word Works Press.