About

(I realized last week I haven’t updated my About page since 2003. I am thankful that it, in fact, requires updating. You can view the old About page here, if you must.)

Old Hag is the work of Lizzie Skurnick, a critic, poet, essayist, blogger and author. I have given up trying to merge these for you people. Please see bios below:

Reviews & Criticism

Skurnick’s reviews, essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Sunday Styles, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post’s Book World, New York magazine (teenily), 01238 magazine, Boulevard, and in many other publications. She writes a weekly column on vintage YA literature, Fine Lines, for the website Jezebel, as well as an occasional column for same, Shelf Pleasuring, about sexola books you weren’t supposed to read as a child. She is a contributor to NPR’s Books We Like series. Her most recent work can be found under “Elsewhere” on the front page of Old Hag, where you can also find her blog-only reviews column, Speedreader. Her book about vintage YA literature is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Summer 2009. Skurnick is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

Poetry

Lizzie Skurnick’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Barrow Street, The New Haven Review, Pinch, the Delta Review, and the anthology Shade (Four Way Books, 2004). Her light verse was featured in a series, TimesCouplets, on NY magazine online, in the book Best of the Blogs (Vintage, 2007) and and on NPR’s Weekend Edition. She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, Ucross, the VCCA, Blue Mountain, and the AWP Summer Seminars and Sewanee writing conference. Her work is collected in a Pushcart Prize-nominated chapbook, Check-In (Caketrain Books, 2005), which will be reissued in 2009. (Find an interview about the book here.) “Grand Central, Track 23″ was recently chosen for the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series. A former lecturer in the undergraduate Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Hopkins Masters in Writing program, Skurnick, who received her MA from the Writing Seminars in 1999, rhymes, mostly.

Teen Stuff

In addition to Fine Lines, Skurnick has written about 10 books for teens in the Sweet Valley, Love Stories and Alias series. (Scroll down to find them all here.) A former employee of the GLC division of 17th Street Productions, she is Executive Director Online At Large for Girls’ Life magazine in Baltimore.

Blog

What can I say? I never blog here anymore, except when someone says something annoying about Hillary. However, Old Hag of Old, which was started in 2003, (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) was nonetheless featured in a number of reputable media outlets, including The Scotsman, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, and (most infamously) The Washington Post. Lord knows what they were on about.

Contact

We enjoy it. You can reach Old Hag for any good goddamn reason at all at theoldhag AT theoldhag DOT com.

Review Copies

If you’d like to send us a book to consider for review, please write theoldhag YESTHAT’S theoldhag OFCOURSEDOT com and we’ll discuss. You can send cookies too–and people actually have.

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