“An indispensable addition to any collection concerning itself with the mythic material of childhood—both childhood's experiences and its traditional tales, and how they reverberate through adult lives."



—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Mirror Mirror: A Novel

Fairy Tale Review

Founder & Editor:
 Kate Bernheimer
Guest Editor: Timothy Schaffert
Web Editor: 
Brian Oliu

Advisory Board


Donald Haase, Wayne State University
Lydia Millet, Tucson, AZ

Maria Tatar, Harvard University

Marina Warner, University of Essex

Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota

About the Founder & Editor


Kate Bernheimer is the author of two novels, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold (FC2) and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold (FC2), Her first story collection is forthcoming from Coffee House in 2010, and called Horse, Flower, Bird. It will be illustrated by Rikki Ducornet. She has just edited a collection of contemporary fairy tales for Penguin (forthcoming Fall 2010) and is also editor of two essay collections, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor/Vintage) and Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press). Bernheimer’s first children’s book, The Girl in The Castle inside The Museum (Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House), was illustrated by Nicoletta Ceccoli, and was named a Best Book of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly. Her second children’s book, The Lonely Book, is being illustrated by Chris Sheban (forthcoming Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House). She is currently Writer in Residence and Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, living in the Ernest Gaines House and teaching a workshop each spring semester. She spends the rest of the year elsewhere. Kate Bernheimer also serves on the Board of FC2, one of the country’s oldest independent publishers of innovative fiction. She welcomes your invitations to give fiction readings or lectures on contemporary fairy tales.