Veronica Schanoes

Veronica Schanoes is an American author of fantasy stories and an associate professor in the department of English at Queens College, CUNY. Her fiction has appeared on Tor.com as well as in various anthologies. Her novella Burning Girls was nominated for the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award and won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella in 2013. She lives in New York City.

Schanoes earned her doctorate in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Her first scholarly monograph, Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Re-telling the Tale, was published by Ashgate Publishing in 2014. Her research interests include fairy tales, women's writing, and fantasy, with particular interest in feminist theory and Jewish representation in speculative fiction.