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Explore the folklore of the trickster, villain, and rescuer known as Baba Yaga in a new light.. "With Becoming Baba Yaga, Kris Spisak presents a robust work of scholarship. Baba Yaga is a wily shapeshifter, nearly impossible to pin down - but Spisak miraculously transforms alongside her, ever keeping up." - from the foreword by GennaRose Nethercott, bestselling author of Thistlefoot When darkness, fear, and instability inundate our daily lives, folktale figures like Baba Yaga speak to the dichotomy of our existence - the hope and the horror, the magic and the mundane. At once an old hag and an enchantress, a demon and wish granter, a feminist and nothing more than a fairytale, Baba Yaga is an endlessly complex folktale character. Becoming Baba Yaga provides an in-depth look at the Baba Yaga mythos and history through Slavic folklore.
About the Author
Kris Spisak wrote her first book, Get a Grip on your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused (Career Press, 2017) , with a goal to help writers of all kinds sharpen their craft and empower their communications. Her "Words You Should Know" podcast and "Grammartopia" events follow the same mission, as does her latest book, The Novel Editing Workbook: 105 Tricks and Tips for Revising your Fiction Manuscript (Davro Press, 2020) . A former college writing instructor, having taught at institutions including the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University, Kris is now an active ghostwriter, speaker, and freelance editor. She is a member of James River Writers, the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and she cannot wait to share her next editing client success story or her own next publication news. Visit Kris-Spisak.com to learn more or to sign up for Kris's monthly language tips and trivia newsletter.
