Margaret Yocom

Margaret Yocom grew up in the Pennsylvania German farmland listening to her grandparents’ stories. Her poetry has appeared in the "Beloit Poetry Journal," the anthology "The Folklore Muse: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists," and elsewhere. She founded the Folklore Studies Program of George Mason University where she taught for 36 years; among her many courses, she offered “Living Words: Folklore and Creative Writing.” She has published on the Brothers Grimm, on the folk arts of political protest, on Inuit storytelling in northwest Alaska, on family folklore, and on the folk arts of Maine logging communities. Co-founder of the American Folklore Society’s Creative Writing and Storytelling Section, she holds a Ph.D. in English and folklore from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A founding member of Western Maine Storytelling, she tells legendary tales of the seen—and the unseen. Co-organizer of the Hugh Ogden Memorial Evening of Poetry, she makes her home with her geologist husband, John Slack, in the western mountains of Maine. http://margaretyocom.com

About the books on this Author page:

-- She is author of KIN S FUR, with its Afterword on the tale "All Kinds Of Fur," her translation of it, and her process of writing erasure poetry.

-- She is editor and co-author of "Logging in the Maine Woods."

-- A folklorist by training, she is author of the book chapter about "Allerleirauh" ("All Kinds Of Fur") in "Transgressive Tales" edited by K. Turner and P. Greenhill.