MIDORI SNYDER

Midori Snyder is the author of several fantasy novels, including a high-fantasy trilogy (New Moon, Sadar’s Keep, and Beldan’s Fire), and a western-Irish fantasy, The Flight of Michael McBride, which combines the Celtic stories of the Sidhe with a Texas cattle ride. She has contributed to the punk fantasy series, Bordertown, and written “Barbara Allen”for artist Charles Vess’s popular comic-book series, Ballads and Sagas. After living abroad in northern Italy, she has found herself entangled in two forthcoming fantasy novels set in sixteenth-century Italy among the actors of the commedia dell’arte.

According to Midori Snyder, “The Reverend’s Wife” was an oral tale collected from the Kordofan people of Sudan and was originally known as “The Muezzin’s Wife.” In that version it was the men, a muezzin and a caravan trader, who dupe each other’s wives into having an affair. Snyder’s version, set in rural America, is definitely not for children.