Marilyn Singer by Sonya Sones, retrieved from Wikipedia(accessed: January 7, 2022).
Marilyn Singer
, b. 1948
Born in the Bronx in New York City, Marilyn Singer spent much of her childhood on Long Island. She says "I was a lucky kid in that my family always read to me a lot, and what I liked most were tales, myths, and poems. I loved their magic, images, and wordplay." She went on to study a Bachelor of Arts at Queen’s College in New York and at Reading University in England, and later obtained a Master of Arts in Communications from New York University. She taught English in New York high schools through the 1970s before beginning to write stories, as well as teaching guides, film notes and catalogues. Her first book, The Dog Who Insisted He Wasn’t, was published in 1976, and she has since published over a hundred books for children spanning a variety of genres, fantasy and realistic novels, mysteries, short stories, picture books, fiction and non fiction. She is credited with the invention of the reverso poem, and published three books in which they feature: Mirror Mirror (2010), Follow Follow (2013) and Echo Echo (2016).
Sources:
Official website (accessed: December 10, 2019)
Marilyn Singer, Reverso Poetry: Writing Verse in Reverse, readbrightly.com (accessed: December 9, 2019)
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
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