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About Writing Mythology

I started this website because I’m struggling to birth a novel based on the story of Cupid and Psyche in The Golden Ass, which Lucius Apuleius wrote towards the end of the second century A.D. Along the way I’ve discovered stories, solutions and people that I might as well share. For a monthly email with events, interviews, writing ideas, humor, and reading recommendations that would interest anyone who loves mythology, please click on the tab below.

The picture to the right, ""Venus and Cupid" by Lorenzo Lotto (1525)" by katexic, is licensed under CC BY 2.0 

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Sonja Ryst’s Biography

A former staff reporter at BusinessWeek.com (now Bloomberg Businessweek), I’ve published nonfiction in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other media. I teach an online course on how to use narrative in expository writing at New York University’s School of Professional Studies. My satires have appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Points in Case, Slackjaw, 101 Words, and Little Old Lady Comedy. Weekly Humorist listed one of my pieces as among its “Best of 2022.”