BIO

  Boston “Poetry Marathon” — Copley Square Library, April 2011

photo by chad parenteau

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making2@outlook.com

Mignon Ariel King was born in Boston’s City Hospital in 1964.  King is an alumna of Simmons College (for women).  She edits two online journals, MoJo! and  U.M.Ph.! Prose, and is the publisher of Hidden Charm Press (HCP).

Ms. King has been reading at open mics since 1998.  Her autobiographical pentology (written in three genres from 1996-2010) is based on a lifetime spent in Greater Boston as a third-generation New Englander.  Book I (memoir) Dropping the Mask…will be published by HCP in 2013.  Book II (a trilogy of poems) is in three separate volumes.  Book III (novella) A Concrete Wish is seeking a publisher.

Works in progress {or sitting on publishers’ desks waiting to be read} as of March 2013. 

The Godshine of Squeaky Cobb (novella)

“An Everlasting Itch for Things Remote” (a ‘found book’ of prose poems)

  a 132-poem synopsis of Moby-Dick.  I’m up to #55!!!

Watermarks (a chapbook of  ‘urban nature poems’)

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Whew!  Okay, I’m done referring to myself in third person, so FYI:

My first name is pronounced: MIN-yin, as in dominion. It’s German. It means “favorite.”  Kindly don’t tell me what it means in French; I’m a classically-trained scholar with two Master’s degrees.  I know how to google–and this ain’t Paris!  (No fooling.  People have sent me “helpful” e-mails.)

My middle name is “Ariel” –after an arguably androgynous sprite from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.