Board Member of IAF,
visual artist, editor, novelist, publisher.
Alliance, OH

With the exception of a brief visit to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Erzebet YellowBoy is a self-taught artisan who creates strange assemblages out of natural ephemera including bones, leaves, shells and other debris and makes books by hand, often using some of these same ingredients in the bindings. In 2001 she founded Papaveria Press, a small art press offering limited, hand bound editions of poetry and fiction by some of today's brightest young authors whose work often falls outside of the standard genres and forms.

Her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Jabberwocky 2 and MYTHIC and her poetry is forthcoming in Mythic Delirium. Her first novel, Sleeping Helena, a re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty set in King Ludwig II's Bavaria, will be released by Prime Books in Spring, 2007. She is also the fiction editor for Cabinet des Fées, a fairy tale journal both online and in print.

She currently lives in an old house with three cats, two dogs and a parakeet named Ginko. She plays a mandolin with four strings and sings to Ginko when no one else is listening. Her daughters and grandchildren drift in and out on a regular basis, but she spends most of her time alone in her studio tearing things apart and putting them back together as something else. To learn more visit http://www.erzebet.com/.