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About the Press
Dragonfly Publishing is a registered sole-proprietorship in Nova Scotia, Canada. The press publishes anthologies and novels. It’s run by author Mary Woodbury (pen, Clara Hume) and is an offshoot of the now-closed Moon Willow Press (MWP), which traditionally published other authors. MWP closed in 2022 and was affiliated with Stormbird Press, in Australia, which acquired a few MWP titles. The pub also hosts Dragonfly.eco, a large literary site devoted to the study of world eco-fiction. The press is inspired by dragonflies; books transform us, capture our imaginations, are incredibly diverse, have a wide range of view, and so much more.
At this site, you’ll find book ordering information, sample stories, blog posts, and even a few MMO ideas.
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Mary Woodbury writes fiction under the pen name Clara Hume and lives with her husband and cat in Nova Scotia. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and has fond memories of the bluegrass state, mainly of the Appalachian Mountains. She grew up in the Midwest, from the cornfields of central Indiana to the Chicago suburbs. A graduate of Purdue University, she earned degrees in English and anthropology. After college, she made her way to California. There, she ran Jack Magazine (now archived at Stanford University) for a decade. She opened Moon Willow Press in 2010, a niche press publishing first-time authors—some of whom she had worked with at Jack. Her hobbies, besides reading and writing, mostly include the outdoors. Mary loves being on trails and hanging out in forests and oceans. Mary works in localization for a large healthcare company.
Memberships and Guest Authorship
Mary has been a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment as well as a member of, and volunteer writer and editor for, Ecology Action Centre’s biannual magazine. She’s an ongoing member of Climate Fiction Writers League and International League of Nature Writers. She has written articles for Impakter, Chicago Review of Books, SFFWorld.com, Ecology Action Centre, Fjords Review, and ClimateCultures.net. She was part of the core team of writers at Artists and Climate Change while it was active. Her article “A History of Eco-fiction” was translated at Chinese Science Writers Association. Her three-part series on ecological weird fiction, originally published at SFFWorld.com, was translated at Zest Letteratura Sostenibile (part I, part 2, part 3).
Credits
The logo and several book covers are designed with Canva.