When you think of a mermaid story, maybe an ocean comes to mind.
![A fictional mermaid swims in the Great Lakes.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/69ac5d7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2100x2400+0+0/resize/880x1006!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fmichigan%2Ffiles%2F201805%2F9780814342206.jpg)
Credit Kristina Stonehill
But couldn’t a mermaid live in the Great Lakes? Lake Michigan maybe?
Writers Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen posed that question to each other ten years ago. Their new book is called The Lake Michigan Mermaid: A Tale in Poems.
Listen above to hear Nemec Foster and Oomen read a short excerpt from their new book, and talk about how they came to write a story about a mermaid from Lake Michigan.
(Subscribe to the Stateside podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or with this RSS link)