Staff Writers & Reviewers:
Heinz Insu Fenkl writes articles on language and folklore for The Journal of Mythic Arts, and is a reviewer for JoMA's blog. He has published novels, stories, essays, anthologies, and translations from the Korean. His mythic memoir, Memories of My Ghost Brother, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Raised in Korea, Germany, and California, Heinz graduated from Vasser, studied Korean shamanism as a Fulbright scholar, researched lucid dreaming at the University of California, and now teaches Creative Writing at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is also the co-publisher of Bo-Leaf Books with his wife, Anne B. Dalton. Heinz, Anne, and their daughter Bella live in upstate New York.
Elizabeth Genco has published fiction in The Journal of Mythic Arts, and is a reviewer for JoMA's blog. She is the author of Scheherazade, Weird Sister, Red, and other works of fiction and graphic fiction. She also writes on tarot for Llewellyn Publishing, produces a regular column for Scryptic Studios, and keeps a music blog, Sonicdiary!. She is the co-publisher of Street Fables Press with her partner, Leland Purvis, in Brooklyn, New York.
Kathleen Howard reviews adult and children's fiction for JoMA's blog. She is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Minnesota, currently working on gender and images of the body in texts by medieval and early modern mystical women. She teaches classes on fantasy and children's literature, and is one of the people behind the Fantasy Matters academic conference.
Helen Pilinovsky writes articles on myth and magical literatue for The Journal of Mythic Arts, and is a reviewer for JoMA's blog. Raised by Russian émigré parents in New York City, she earned a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she worked on the archetypal differences between the canons of Eastern and Western European fairy tales. She now teaches children's literature at California State San Bernadino. Helen's articles have appeared in both academic and popular journals, and she is co-editor of the fairy tale literature magazine Cabinet des Fées.
