Yvette Wielhouwer Managan

About Me

Yvette Managan is a writer who works by day maintaining the chemical integrity of the Banana River. At night, she acts as intermediary between the neighbors, planets, hound-dog and Sun Conyer. She's taking notes.

Yvette reads to remember, writes to forget and re-enacts the American War Between the States to teach others that war is never healthy.

She acts as fiction editor for The Linnet’s Wing. Her works have recently been seen in Every Day Fiction, Open Magazine, Mason’s Road, Flashshot, Sporkpress, Eclecticflash, Killer Works, All Things Girl, Literal Translations, Polluto 6, Mirror Magazine, and Sinister Tales.

Why do you write?

Emotion, color, and experience, along with nearly everything else in existance, fuels my creativity. I write because otherwise my family members would either jump out of their skins or the nearest window.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Peter Matthessien writes like I wish I spoke, in "Far Tortuga" and "Killing Mister Watson."

I also like Mika Waltari's "The Egyptian." I read these books out loud, to taste the words.

Other than that, a partial list includes Barbara Kingsolver, Jerome K. Jerome, Milan Kundera, James Lee Burke, H. P. Lovecraft, earlier Ray Bradbury, Elmore Leonard, Robert McClosky, Nuala O'Faolain, Flanner O'Connor, Maurice Sendak, Thomas Berger, William Goldman, Wally Lamb, John Irving, Patricia Cornwell, Harry Turtledove, Robert Heinlein, Asimov, Kafka, Seuss, Marjory Flack, Ursula Leguin, Hubert Selby and John Steinbeck.

Just a short list, likely to grow as memory kicks in.