Blue Horse

Tobaccoville, North Carolina:: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press,, 2019.. Edition of 46. 6 x 6"; 20 pages including free end pages. Hand typeset in Centaur and Bembo. Printed letterpress on Yatsou and Kitakata papers. Pamphlet binding. Bound in cover papers of St. Armand. Illustrated with woodcuts by Terry Schupbach-Gordon and Toby Gordon. Signed and numbered by the poet. Colophon: "This book is a collaboration of cousins made to celebrate the stories we tell, and how we tell them. ... One cousin wrote the poem, one cousin set the type, and two cousins cut the blocks." It is also dedicated to one cousin. MissouriReview.com: "Mariflo Stephens has read from her work on Oprah and the Oxygen network. Her fiction is included in 'Worlds in their Words: Contemporary American Women Writers' and her essays appear in 'The Barbie Chronicles: A Real Doll Turns Forty' and 'Strategies for Successful Writing'. Awarded two grants for fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, she was the first place winner in the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest in 2008 and the second place winner in 2012. Her work has been published in 'The Washington Post', 'Iowa Woman', the 'Virginia Quarterly Review', 'The Walden Review', 'Catalyst: A Magazine for Social Change', and 'Zone 3', among other publications. Stephens received her B.S. degree in English from James Madison University in 1973 and her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Virginia in 1989."