John Wiswell is a disabled author who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His fiction has been translated into 10 languages. He won the 2021 Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "Open House on Haunted Hill," and the 2022 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "That Story Isn't The Story." He has also been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards.
Wiswell's new novel is Wearing the Lion.
At People magazine he tagged six Greek mythology retellings, including:
Winter Harvest by Ioanna PapadopoulouRead about another entry on the list.
This one is for die-hard fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe. Papadopoulou’s novel collects all the major myths and fragments of folklore surrounding Demeter, the Goddess of Harvest. Despite her ability to freeze the world to death, she is relegated to the back row of Olympians in most classic literature, less favored than the likes of Zeus and Athena.
Winter Harvest’s brilliance is filling in the gaps between where Demeter appears in myths: first fighting against her tyrannical parents and later growing up to become a violently protective mother. It envisions a full life of a misunderstood woman and goddess, complete with strength, bitterness, and longing.
Also see Mark Skinner's nineteen top Greek myth retellings and Christine Hume's ten top feminist retellings of mythology, the B&N Reads editors' twenty-four best mythological retellings.
--Marshal Zeringue
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