About the Author

Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (2016), Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011); and in her own collection, The Honey Month (2010). Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR Books and on Tor.com. She became the Otherworldly columnist at the New York Times in February 2018, and is represented by DongWon Song of HMLA.

Reviews

"The Honey Month is the sort of book I'd happily keep on my shelf forever. It's a tiny thing and an intriguing idea. The delicacy and daintiness of each story makes it something to dip into again and again (and that's the best honey pun I can manage)." -- Katie Burton, FantasyLiterature.com
"Amal El-Mohtar's The Honey Month from Papaveria Press ranks among 2010's most exquisite and overlooked treasures." -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation.
"A triumphant debut for a poet with a mesmerising voice." -- Andy Humphrey, The Poet's Soapbox