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Forrest Aguirre |
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| Forrest
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Forrest Aguirre recently
received the World Fantasy Award for his
editorial work on the Leviathan 3
and which also made him a finalist for the
Phillip K. Dick Award. His own fiction has
appeared in a wide variety of publications
including Notre Dame Review, 3rd Bed,
Exquistie Corpse, The Journal of Experimental
Fiction, Flesh & Blood, Polyphony,
and Redsine, among others. His most
recent projects include editing Leviathan
4 and finishing work on his first novel,
tentatively entitled Swans Over the Moon.
Forrest lives in Madison, Wisconsin with
his wife and four children.
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Steven Archer |
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| Steven Archer |
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Steven Archer is an artist and musician living in Baltimore, MD. When not recording, DJing, or producing art, he and his wife, author Donna Lynch, tour with their dark electronic rock band Ego Likeness. He has a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, and has shown his work at galleries and other venues throughout the east coast, and internationally in the form of album art and magazine illustrations. Luna Maris is his first book.
For more information about Ego Likeness, please visit
www.egolikeness.com. Stevens solo electronic project can be found at
www.hopefulmachines.net
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Michael A. Arnzen |
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| Michael
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"Minimalist
horror is a shotgun shell:
a tightly wadded package of shrapnel designed
for maximum coverage, minimal escape."
—Michael A. Arnzen
Michael A. Arnzen is the
author of the Bram Stoker Award winning
novel, Grave Markings (Dell Books/Delirium
Books) and publishes the acclaimed website,
gorelets.com. His titles at Raw Dog Screaming
Press include Play Dead, his long-anticipated
second novel, and 100 Jolts, a finalist
for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement
in a Fiction Collection. Publishing horror,
humor, criticism and suspense since 1989,
Arnzen's writing has won the International
Horror Guild Award and has been reprinted
in The Year's Best Horror Stories. His bibliography
includes the books Fluid Mosaic, Freakcidents,
Rigormarole, Writhing in Darkness, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems and Proverbs for Monsters.
Arnzen holds a Ph.D. in English
and presently teaches graduate studies in
"Writing Popular Fiction" at Seton
Hill University in Western Pennsylvania,
where he lives with his wife and cats. His
current project is a twisted kidnapping
novel.
www.gorelets.com
www.myspace.com/arnzen
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Steve Aylett |
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| Steve Aylett
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"...facing
the truth of the situation is an honest
start. Nothing can happen before that. I
write about it in ways that keep me interested
and alive... "
—Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett was born in Bromley, England. He wrote the books Slaughtermatic, The Crime Studio, Bigot Hall, The Inflatable Volunteer, Toxicology, Atom, Shamanspace, Only an Alligator, The Velocity Gospel, Dummyland, Karloff's Circus, LINT, Fain the Sorcerer, And Your Point Is? and Rebel at the End of Time. He was a finalist for the 1998 Philip K Dick Award (for Slaughtermatic). He's also responsible for comic projects The Caterer, Get That Thing Way From Me and Johnny Viable.
www.steveaylett.com
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Steve Beard |
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| Steve Beard |
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Steve Beard was born in England
in 1961 and after attending Oxford University
worked as a style journalist on i-D
magazine. In 1999 he published the science
fiction/fantasy novel, Digital Leatherette,
which William Gibson said was “fresh
evidence that the street finds its own uses
for literature.” He is collaborating
with Jeff Noon on a baroque fantasy novel
accessible at www.mappalujo.com.
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Tom Bradley |
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| Tom Bradley |
Tom received his novelist's calling at the age of nineteen. He climbed into the moonlit mountains around his hometown, where he got an unambiguous vocation with physical symptoms and everything, just like Martin Luther in the electric storm. He fucked permanently off from America in 1985, moved to Red China, and has lurked around the left rim of the Pacific ever since, in a successful search for sinecures that steal virtually no time and absolutely no mental energy from his writing.
Tom's prose shares the legendary pages of London's AMBIT Magazine with those proto-bizarros, J.G. Ballard and Ralph Steadman. His first nonfiction book is Fission Among the Fanatics (Spuyten Duyvil Press, NYC, 2007). Various of his novels have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award and the New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in the AWP Award Series in the Novel. Reviews and excerpts, a couple hours of recorded readings, plus links to Tom's essays in Salon.com and other such high-tone swanky magazines, are at tombradley.org.
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Alan M. Clark |
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| Alan M. Clark |
Alan M. Clark grew up in Tennessee. He is most known for his work in illustration, which appears in books of fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, young adult fiction and children’s books. His awards in the illustration field include, the World Fantasy Award and four Chesley Awards. His fiction has appeared in magazines, anthologies and a collection released by Scorpius Digital Publishing. Siren Promised his Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel, written with Jeremy Robert Johnson, was released in 2005. His two book series with Stephen Merritt and Lorelei Shannon, The Blood of Father Time, Books 1 & 2, a dark time-travel fantasy, was published by Five Star Books in 2007. Mr. Clark’s publishing company, IFD Publishing, has released six books, the most recent of which is a full color book of his artwork, The Paint in My Blood. He and his wife, Melody, live in Oregon. For more info visit: www.alanmclark.com
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Efrem Emerson is an over-educated
under-achiever from Aroostook County, Maine,
a small but great nation near New Brunswick.
He highly encourages the overthrow of the
United States government and prays diligently
that the president will soon ride in an
open limo through a hostile city. He hates
soft limpwristed jazz, is bored by women
who are too 'healthy', and has a fine collection
of 'treated' crucifixes. His fiction has
been published in a number of anthologies,
including Fiction International, Sick:
an Anthology of Illness, The Dream People,
and Bastard Fiction.
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Larry Fondation |
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| Larry Fondation |
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"I think
Los Angeles reveals itself most at the margins.
On the street corners, in bars and nightclubs.
In the sounds of the traffic, police sirens
and helicopters, in the words and music
of local bands…"
—-Larry Fondation
Larry Fondation is the author of the novels Angry Nights and Fish, Soap and Bonds, and of Common Criminals, a collection of short stories. His fiction focuses on the Los Angeles underbelly. His two most recent books feature collaborations with artist Kate Ruth.
Fondation
has lived in LA since the 1980s and worked
for fifteen years as an organizer in South
Central Los Angeles, Compton, and East LA.
His fiction and non-fiction has appeared
in a range of diverse publications including Flaunt (where he is Special Correspondent), Fiction International, Quarterly West,
the Los Angeles Times and the Harvard
Business Review. He is a recipient of a 2008-09 Christopher Isherwood Fellowship in Fiction Writing. He can be contacted
at lfondation@aol.com.
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Eckhard Gerdes |
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| Eckhard
Gerdes |
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Eckhard
Gerdes grew up among philistines who belittle
all attempts to enrich our lives with literature
and art. His work had to be covert, for
the dominant culture seeks to silence all
whose voices do not chant the dominant culture's
desires in unison. He was able to pick up
an MFA in writing from the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago along the way,
but not before one teacher threatened to
choke Eckhard to death for producing this
kind of writing. Eckhard's true teachers
have been the voices he heard through literature-Brautigan,
Patchen, Joyce, Beckett, Federman, Barth,
Jaffe, Burroughs, Acker, Moorcock, Calvino,
Ionesco, and the amazing Arno Schmidt to
name a few-and the voices he has heard through
other art forms, such as Clyfford Still,
Picasso, Pollack, Kraan, Captain Beefheart,
Pere Ubu, Stockhausen, Webern, and, of course,
the Doors. These are the voices of the idiosyncratic.
They will be heard long after the weak voices
have faded.
He lives near
Chicago with two of his
sons, Ludwig and Ulysses. His oldest son,
Sterling, is away at college at Georgia
Tech. Occasionally, Eckhard publishes The
Journal of Experimental Fiction. At
times, he writes about literature for The
Review of Contemporary Fiction, American
Book Review, and Electronic Book
Review. His fiction appears in various
journals every now and then.
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Adam Golaski |
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| Adam Golaski |
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Adam Golaski is a husband and a father. Adam wrote Color Plates (Rose Metal Press, 2009). His translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight—"Green"—appears in installments on the critical site Open Letters. His poetry, fiction (horror and otherwise), and non-fiction has appeared in journals such as: word for/word, Supernatural Tales, McSweeney's, Sleepingfish, Conjunctions, and All Hallows. He is currently editing selected poetry of Paul Hannigan for Pressed Wafer, and co-edited for Flim Forum Press two anthologies of experimental poetry, Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). Adam edits and publishes New Genre, a journal of horror and science fiction, now in its seventh year. He collaborates musically with Jeremy Withers as Outlet; their most recent single, "Why Worry Rosary," appeared on the multi-media compilation Schwa 10.
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Harold Jaffe |
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| Harold
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"Find
a seam, plant a mine, slip away."
—Harold Jaffe
Harold Jaffe is the author
of author of ten fiction or creative nonfiction volumes and four novels,
including Jesus Coyote, (2008) 15 Serial Killers (2003) and Terror-Dot-Gov (2005)
from RDSP, Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Culture, (2007) False Positive, (2002),
Sex for the Millennium (1999), Othello
Blues (1996), Straight Razor
(1995), Eros Anti-Eros (1990), Madonna
and Other Spectacles (1988) and Beasts
(1986). Jaffe's fiction has appeared in
numerous journals and has been widely anthologized.
His novels and stories have been translated
into German, Japanese, Spanish, French,
and Czech. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction
International and Professor of Creative
Writing and Literature at San Diego State.
www.jaffeantijaffe.com
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Dustin LaValley |
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| Dustin LaValley |
Dustin LaValley is an author, screenwriter and martial artist from upstate New York. His film Rise of the Ghosts, co-written with Robbie Ribspreader premiered at the FanTasia film festival in 2007 and was awarded Best Horror Film by the Wreck-Beach International Film Festival. Find out more at Dustin's myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/dustinlavalley
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John Edward Lawson |
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| John Edward
Lawson |
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John Edward Lawson
is an author, editor, and publisher living
just outside Washington, DC. He was born
in 1974 and enjoys traveling. His poetry
collections include The Horrible
and The Scars Are Complimentary;
fiction includes the novel Last Burn
in Hell, seven chapbooks, and the collection
Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades.
While serving as editor-in-chief of Raw
Dog Screaming Press and The Dream People
webzine, John has also been editor of the
anthologies Tempting Disaster, Sick,
and Of Flesh and Hunger. Spy on him
at:
www.johnlawson.org
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| Donna Lynch |
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| Donna Lynch |
Donna Lynch is a writer and musician currently living in Baltimore, MD. Her written works include a novel Isabel Burning and a collection of poetry entitled In My Mouth, as well as numerous other poems and short stories. She is the co-founder along with her husband, artist and musician Steven Archer, of the dark electro-rock band Ego Likeness (Dancing Ferret Discs), and the spoken word/ instrumental outfit The Trinity Project. She is fond of all genres of music, twisted and creepy film and literature, maps, quarries and coal mines, theology, and hairless animals.
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Ronald Damien Malfi |
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| Ronald
Damien Malfi |
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“A writer
wants to write something of worth.
A good writer wants to write something honest
and
of worth. Not all honest books are good
books,
but all good books are honest books.”
—Ronald Damien Malfi
Ronald Damien Malfi is the
author of several short stories and screenplays,
as well as the novel The Space Between.
He graduated from Towson University in 1999
with a degree in English. Most notably,
his short fiction can be found in the anthologies
Sick: An Anthology of Illness and
Of Flesh and Hunger. The Fall
of Never is his second novel. He currently
lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
www.ronmalfi.com
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Elizabeth Massie |
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| Elizabeth Massie |
Two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Elizabeth Massie has published 26 novels for adults, teens, and young readers, primarily in the genres of horror, historical fiction, and media tie-ins. Her titles include Sineater, Welcome Back to the Night, Wire Mesh Mothers, Homeplace, The Tudors: King Takes Queen, The Tudors: Thy Will Be Done, and others. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner. She hates cheese and loves World’s Softest Socks, and thinks Alan Clark has one wicked sense of humor.
www.ElizabethMassie.com
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Bradley Sands |
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Bradley Sands |
Bradley Sands is the author of the novel, It Came from Below the Belt (Afterbirth Books), and the editor of the literary journal, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens. Forthcoming books include Disappointing Sophomoric Effort (Afterbirth Books) and TV Snorted My Brain (Evil Nerd Empire). His work has appeared in The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue), The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, The Dream People, Lamination Colony, No Colony, Opium Magazine, Zygote in My Coffee, Robot Melon, decomP, Mud Luscious, Thieves Jargon, NOÖ Journal, and elsewhere. He has received an &NOW Award for innovative writing. Visit him at:
www.BradleySands.com
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Jeremy C. Shipp |
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| Jeremy C. Shipp |
Jeremy C. Shipp is an author whose written creations inhabit various magazines, anthologies, and drawers. While preparing for the forthcoming collapse of civilization, Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse. He’s currently working on many stories and novels and is losing his hair, though not because of the ghosts. Vacation is his first published novel. You can visit his online home at www.jeremycshipp.com.
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Darren Speegle |
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| Darren
Speegle |
Darren Speegle, an American writer, lives in Germany and currently works in the Middle East. When he’s not jumping around the world (and often while he is), he’s trying to come to terms with all the strangeness through his fiction. He is the author of Gothic Wine, A Dirge for the Temporal, and the forthcoming Relics. Current projects include the novels The Third Twin and Veils. Find his short fiction in such publications as Subterranean, Postscripts, and Crimewave.
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Alyssa Sturgill |
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| Alyssa
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Alyssa Sturgill's work has
been featured in Cthulhu Sex, The Dream
People, Crown of Bones (anthology),
Gothic Fairytales, Dream Virus, Tempting
Disaster (anthology), Decompositions,
A Kick in the Nuts (anthology), Girlskin
(chapbook), and assorted less memorable
publications. She is the co-editor of Bloodcookies
Webzine, DJ of its MP3 radio counterpart
Bloodcookie Radio, and author of
its movie review column, Cinemasochism.
She is deeply and psychotically obsessed
with obscure cult and horror flicks, and
has several rather mind-wrenchingly unpleasant
screenplays in the works.
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Jeffrey Thomas |
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| Jeffrey
Thomas |
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"…you
have to write because if you don't you'll
go mad, because you'll shrivel up and die,
because your soul will starve to death."
—Jeffrey Thomas
Jeffrey Thomas is the author
of the collections Terror Incognita
(Delirium Books), AAAIIIEEE!!!, and
Punktown, from which a story was
reprinted in St. Martin’s The Year’s
Best Fantasy and Horror #14. Other books
include the novels Letters From Hades
and Monstrocity, the novella Godhead
Dying Downwards, and a German edition
of Punktown with cover by HR Giger.
Anthologies featuring his work include Sick,
Of Flesh and Hunger and The Thackery
T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric and
Discredited Diseases. He lives in Massachusetts.
www.jeffreyethomas.com/
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Scott Thomas |
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| Scott Thomas |
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"If
I sit down to write something, it's as if
I'm tuning
in to this latent resource and a story will
start
to form, will come to me and take shape."
—Scott Thomas
Scott Thomas is the author
of Cobwebs and Whispers and Shadows
of Flesh, both from Delirium books.
His fiction has appeared in a number of
anthologies which include: The Year’s
Best Fantasy and Horror #15, The
Year’s Best Horror #22, Sick:
An Anthology of Illness, Leviathan
3, Of Flesh and Hunger, Deathrealms
and The Ghost in the Gazebo.
Thomas is fond of old houses,
cats and the music of Corelli. He lives
in Maine.
Scott
Thomas Interview
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Paul A. Toth |
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| Paul A. Toth |
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Paul A. Toth lives in Florida and, aside from his work as a novelist, writes short stories and poetry, a well as the occasional nonfiction piece. His short fiction and multimedia work have been widely published, with credits including The Barcelona Review, Mississippi Review Online, Iowa Review, and many others.
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Matthew Warner |
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| Matthew
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Matthew Warner is author
of The Organ Donor and Death Sentences:
Tales of Punishment and Revenge in addition to his books for Raw Dog Screaming Press. He
writes a popular web column, “Author’s
Notes,” for Horror World, and
has written short stories for Dark Discoveries,
Cemetery Dance, and several anthologies.
In addition to his frequent speaking engagements
at schools and libraries, he enjoys playing
the piano, downhill skiing, and martial
arts. He lives in Virginia with his wife,
the illustrator Deena Warner, and three cats.
www.matthewwarner.com
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Eric Miles Williamson |
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| Eric Miles Williamson |
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Eric Miles Williamson’s first novel, East Bay Grease, was a PEN Hemingway finalist and listed by both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 1999. His second novel, Two-Up, was listed by the Kansas City Star and the San Jose Mercury News as one of the Best Books of Fiction published in 2006. The Atlantic Monthly said his 2007 book of criticism, Oakland, Jack London, and Me, is “one of the least politically correct texts of our time.” He is an editor of American Book Review, Boulevard, and The Texas Review. Winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, after many years as a laborer Williamson went to college and now works at the University of Texas, Pan American. He lives with his wife, Judy, and their sons, Guthrie and Turner.
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D. Harlan Wilson |
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| D. Harlan
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D. Harlan Wilson’s books include The Kafka Effekt (2001), Stranger on the Loose (2003), Pseudo-City (2005), Dr. Identity (2007), Blankety Blank (2008), Peckinpah (2009) and Technologized Desire (2009). He has published hundreds of stories in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the world in several languages, and he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of irreal texts. He lives in Ohio with his wife Christine and daughter Madeleine and teaches literature and writing at Wright State University-Lake Campus. For more information on Wilson and his work, visit his official website at www.dharlanwilson.com.
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Mickey Z. |
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| Mickey Z. |
Born and raised in Astoria, Queens where he currently lives with his
wife Michele, Mickey Z. is probably the only person on the planet to
have appeared in both a karate flick with Billy Blanks and an anti-war
book with Noam Chomsky. Mickey Z. is the author of five nonfiction
books, several of which have been translated into Italian: 50 American
Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know, The Seven Deadly Spins, A
Gigantic Mistake, The Murdering of My Years, and Saving Private
Power. His nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry have appeared
regularly in a wide range of online and print publications and
anthologies, including: New York Daily News, Veg News, Poets and
Writers, Village Voice, Chess Life, Guerilla News Network, Black Belt,
What Would Bill Hicks Say?, Tutto in Vendita, Underground, and many
others. Mickey has also served as Senior Editor of Wide Angle
(2002-04) and Editor-in-Chief of Curio (1996-98). Screenplays he has
optioned include A Saint in the City, Second Option, and The Pride.
He is the recipient of two writing grants from the Puffin Foundation
(2003 and 2005) and a Fellowship in Non-fiction Literature from the New
York Foundation for the Arts (1997).
Armed with only a high school diploma, Mickey Z. has spoken and lectured
in venues ranging from Yale University and MIT to ABC No Rio and the
Broadway Branch of the Queens Library. Newsday calls Mickey Z. a
"professional iconoclast." Time Out New York says he's a "political
provocateur." To historian Howard Zinn, he's "iconoclastic and bold." He
was also known as the "underground poet" for hanging his words in the
NYC subways. Mickey Z. maintains a popular blog, "Cool Observer," and
can be found on the Web at http://www.mickeyz.net.
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