GennaRose Nethercott is the author of a novel, Thistlefoot, and a short story collection, Fifty Beasts to Break YourHeart — winner of the Vermont Book Award for Fiction. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the National Poetry Series — and as a folklorist, she serves as the head writer behind the podcast Lore.
Nethercott’s work has been dubbed best-of-the-year by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Independent Review of Books, BookPage, and more—and she is a Jewish Fiction Award honoree. She spends her time touring widely, performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow) and lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.
Learn more on her website.
You probably pass by your local cemetery every day—but did you know that the images carved into those stones contain secret messages? Vermont Book Award Winner and folklorist GennaRose Nethercott will teach you to crack the codes hidden in old New England gravestone art.
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