GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was a winner of the National Poetry Series. She is also the lyricist of the song collection Modern Ballads and the interactive Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog: A Story in Cootie Catchers, among other projects. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order for strangers on an antique typewriter with her team The Traveling Poetry Emporium. In her debut novel, Thistlefoot (Anchor), Nethercott offers a reinterpretation of the myth of Baba Yaga. The Yaga siblings, Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist, have been estranged since childhood, but reunite to receive an inheritance. Their bequest isn’t land or money, however, but a sentient hut on chicken legs. Moreover, Thistlefoot, as the house is called, arrived from the Yaga ancestral home in Russia followed by a sinister figure, the Longshadow Man, bearing violent secrets from the past. As brother and sister embark with Thistlefoot on a final tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows them, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide.