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POETRY
“Her poetry…is humane and feminist, and always with a hard edge. It sounds like real life, even when it is supposedly about goddesses and harshly treated mermaids. She is the best new poet I have encountered in many years…” Read more…
— A Writing Life
“…a beautifully sad reflection on the displacement of native gods in ‘Of Amaranth and Honey’…” Read more…
— Stone Telling
“…’The Sun God Bids Farewell To His Lover’…is one of my favorites in this issue…frank and personal…powerful…”
— The Fix
“….excellent…’Gretel’ [is] reminiscent of Angela Carter’s feminist work in fairy tales…” Read more…
— The Goreletter
SHORT FICTION
Read what people are saying about “Dreamcatcher” (Straight Outta Deadwood anthology)…
“Native American mythology is not always successfully incorporated into the stories, but Marsheila Rockwell’s “Dreamcatcher” manages it in a fresh fashion.” Read more…
— Publisher’s Weekly
Read what people are saying about “The Recliner” (The One That Got Away – Women of Horror Vol. 3 anthology)…
” Excellent story…Conjures shades of The Babbadook but is better. ” Read more…
— Iseult Murphy, author of the 7th Hell series
Read what people are saying about “Transmissions” (X-Files: Secret Agendas anthology)…
” Another super tale is “Transmissions” by Marsheila Rockwell and Jeffrey Mariotte…like a lost episode…the action is surprising and the ending awesome. ” Read more…
— Patrick Hayes, SciFi Pulse
Read what people are saying about “Shaala, Made of Stone”…
“The story has a beautifully evoked Arabic feel…I could almost feel the sand and smell the spices in this world.”
— Joanna Fay, author of Daughter of Hope
“The action and revenge have you intrigued throughout…keeping you turning the pages…the author weaves such a mystically beautiful tale that you are left wanting more.” Read more…
— The Cover (and Everything in Between)
Read what people are saying about “Shaala and the Tiger’s Daughter”…
“This story draws the reader in immediately…in the opening few lines of this tale, Marsheila Rockwell has insured that the reader is hooked.” Read more…
— Long and Short Reviews