A Galaxy In A Jar by Laurel Winter

A Galaxy In A Jar collects twenty-seven new and previously published work. Laura Winter has won awards for short fiction (a World Fantasy Award for best novella for "Sky Eyes") and poetry (both Rhyslings and Asimov's Reader's Poll Awards for best poem "Why goldfish shouldn't use power tools" and "egg horror poem"). She's sold fiction and poetry to a variety of magazines, including F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Aboriginal, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Mythic Delirium. On the other side of the desk, she was the poetry editor for Tales of the Unanticipated for ten years. 

"Who is this woman, I wonder, closing the book, measuring mittens, pondering needles the size of Ohio, wondering about raw blind fish, realizing that this Laurel Winter, a small town Montana and Minnesota girl, has galaxy-sized imaginings. --from the introduction by Jane Yolen