It came from Sandi Leibowitz (again)

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Sandi Leibowitz’s story “The Cypress and the Rose” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 20 April 2018. I envisioned this as a feminist re-telling of a certain familiar fairy tale, but I didn’t want that to be apparent early on. The hero’s name that came to me was Cyprus, who was a boy. Then I changed it to Cypress, and the tree and plant imagery came to me. That sounded like a girl’s name, so …

The Cypress and the Rose – Sandi Leibowitz

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On her sixteenth birthday, a girl approached her mother, a priestess gifted in prophecy, to learn her name and her fate. The trees of that island country spoke with the people, the priestesses most of all, and taught them things that we, to whom the trees are mostly silent, cannot guess. “Your true name is Cypress,” the mother told her. “The tree of mourning?” “The tree of resilience. It is long-lived. And where there is …

Another question for Sandi Leibowitz

Q: What’s a genre you’d like to write but don’t or can’t?

A: Interesting question–if I want to do it, I certainly try. I am attempting to write a fantasy novel for children–it’s complete, it’s even second and third drafted, but it’s not ready for prime time yet and I am having to leave it on the back burner for a while till I can grapple with how I do and don’t want to change it. I’ve started a YA novel, about 3/4 through the first draft, and am having trouble with that. And I have many many ideas for other books. So–I am struggling to become a novelist.

Sandi Leibowitz’s story “The Cypress and the Rose” was
published on Friday, 20 April 2018.
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More about Sandi Leibowitz

Sandi Leibowitz is a teacher, classical singer, and writer of speculative fiction and poetry. Her works appear in Mythic Delirium, Liminality, Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year 5, Devilfish, Not One of Us, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the Rhysling, Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net awards, and won second- and third-place Dwarf Stars. The author of The Bone-Joiner, a collection of poems, she lives in New York.

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Sandi Leibowitz’s story “The Cypress and the Rose” was
published on Friday, 20 April 2018.
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The Nature of Glass – Sandi Leibowitz

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Whispers from the Jewish quarter about the raising of a golem. A clock where every hour Death pursued sins and set them quaking. Astronomy, botany, art. Bohemia in the days of Rudolf II was famed for many things. Among them was the making of glass. Zoja was a master glassblower who lived in the outskirts of Prague. In her youth she had married Jozef, learned his trade and worked alongside him. What greater happiness than …