Marly Youmans is the author of 11 books, primary novels and poetry collections, as well as several Southern fantasies for younger readers. In the past year, she served on the National Book Award judging panel for young people's literature and published three books: a novel, "A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage" (Mercer); a collection of poems, "The Foliate Head" (UK: Stanza Press); and an epic adventure in blank verse, "Thaliad" (Montreal: Phoenicia Publishing.

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer University Press, 2012), Thaliad (Phoenicia Publishing, 2012), The Foliate Head (STANZA Poetry, 2012), The Throne of Psyche (Mercer University Press, 2012), Val/Orson (PS Publishing, 2009), Ingledove (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), Claire (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), The Curse of the Raven Mocker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), The Wolf Pit (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001), Catherwood (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), Little Jordan (David R. Godine, 1995)