Centuries ago, terrified villagers spread rumors of a monster living in the woods. Once a year, they offer up a young woman to appease the mysterious creature. But what if the villagers are inadvertently creating the very thing they fear the most?

In The Skull Tree, poet Kristen Grace creates a new work of mythology and a welcome for anyone made to feel monstrous for becoming what they had to in order to survive. From the author of Wings, The Stepmother Made of Feathers, and A Love Letter to Women.

Kristen Grace is a journalist for 405 Magazine and Art Focus and a graduate from Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA program. She prefers to write with Blackwing pencils when possible. She has authored a picture book, The Stepmother Who Believed in Feathers, as well as Wings, a collection of feminist fairy tales, through Literati Press. If Kristen cares for you, she will draw terrible cartoons for and about you, or preferably, your dog. Her first collection of poetry, Love Letters for Women, was self-published.