Veronica Schanoes is a writer whose work has appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Trunk Stories, and Jabberwocky. Her poem The Room has been published by Papaveria Press. She writes poems that look like stories and stories that look like essays, and just to complete the cycle, essays that look like poems.

She is currently working on a dissertation provisionally titled Re–Visionary Fantasies: Feminist Fairy Tales and Myth, about contemporary feminist revisions of fairy tales and classical myth, in which she closely examines the tropes of the mother–daughter relationship and the magic mirror. She has published academic work on the Harry Potter series as well as on interstitial arts. She has taught courses on English Renaissance women writers, 20th–century revisions of classical literature, children’s literature, and mother–daughter relationships in 20th–century literature. In her capacity as a scholar, she appears on the forthcoming collector's edition DVD of The Princess Bride, expounding on the movie's relationship to the fairy tale tradition.

A New Yorker to the bone and in the blood, she didn't leave the city until she began her PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her writing is deeply infused with the city, its history, sights, and sounds, as well as with her mother's books of fairy tales, which she read constantly while growing up. New York City history is one of her not–so–secret passions and interests, along with trains, sharks, Gene Kelly musicals, Lewis Carroll's Alice, and The Wizard of Oz. She also bears a more–than–passing resemblance to Ellen Kushner; this is a wonderful thing and entirely coincidental.