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Dzanc Books
Dzanc Books is an American independent press book publisher. It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) private foundation. Michelle Dotter is publisher and editor-in-chief. Background Dzanc Books was founded in 2006 by Steven Gillis, a lawyer turned novelist, and Dan Wickett, a prolific on-line book reviewer. They operated from their homes, near Detroit, Michigan. Mission Dzanc pursues literary fiction and eBooks. They published their own list of independent 20 writers to watch in response to ''The New Yorkers list of "20 Under 40", which they felt was too establishment-oriented. Former staff Former staff includes author Matt Bell as senior editor. Authors Published authors include Roy Kesey, Yannick Murphy, Terese Svoboda, Allison Amend, Jeff Parker, Peter Selgin, Laura van den Berg, Anne Valente, Robert Coover, Lance Olsen, Joseph McElroy, Robert Lopez, Evan Lavender-Smith, Jen Michalski, Dawn Raffel, J. Robert Lennon, Adam Klein, Okey Ndibe, Mary Biddinger, David Galef, Aim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Amend
Allison Amend (born May 20, 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer. Early life Amend was born in Chicago, Illinois, attended Stanford University, and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Career In 2008, OV Books, an imprint of Dzanc Books, published her debut book, a short story collection called ''Things That Pass for Love''. She has published two novels and a third was published by Nan A. Talese in May 2016. Amend teaches writing at Lehman College Lehman College is a public college in the Bronx borough of New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehma ... in New York City. Publications Novels *''Stations West'': a novel. ''Louisiana State University Press'' (2010) * ''A Nearly Perfect Copy'': a novel. ''Nan A. Talese'' (2013) * ''Enchanted Islands'': a novel. ''Nan A. Talese'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okey Ndibe
Okechukwu "Okey" Ndibe (born 1960) is a novelist, political columnist, and essayist of Igbo ethnicity. Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria. He is the author of ''Arrows of Rain'' and ''Foreign Gods, Inc.'', two critically acclaimed novels published in 2000 and 2014 respectively. Career Ndibe worked in Nigeria as a journalist and magazine editor, and came to the United States in 1988 at the invitation of famous Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. In the United States, Ndibe helped to found ''African Commentary'', a magazine described as "award-winning and widely acclaimed". Ndibe holds both an MFA in writing and a PhD in literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He continued to write for magazines and papers in the United States, winning the 2001 Association of Opinion Page Editors award for best opinion essay in an American newspaper for his piece "Eyes to the Ground: The Perils of the Black Student". Ndibe has worked as a professor at several colleges, including Connecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Klein (writer)
Adam Klein (born 1962) is an American writer and musician. He currently divides his time between New York, San Francisco, and India. Early years Klein was born in 1962 in Coral Gables, Florida. He left high school in Miami with a GED and attended Miami Dade Community College, where he studied fashion and poetry. He spent one year as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, studying poetry with Marvin Bell. He then left school to live briefly in Chicago and Boston. With friends from work in Boston, he started the first incarnation of the band The Size Queens. Eventually, he moved to San Francisco, where he spent many years in the 1980s as a performer in the local club scene. Literary career Klein graduated from San Francisco State University, where he studied with Bob Glück and Molly Giles, with an MA in creative writing. He later earned an MFA in creative writing from The New School, where he worked with Robert Polito, Lynne Tillman, Honor Moore, Sigrid Nunez, and Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Raffel
Dawn Raffel is an American writer. She has authored two short story collections, a novel, a memoir, and a biography. Her work has appeared in ''The Quarterly,'' ''NOON'', edited by Diane Williams, ''O, The Oprah Magazine,'' '' Conjunctions'', ''Open City'', ''Fence'', ''Guernica'', ''The Antioch Review'', ''The Mississippi Review'', ''The Brooklyn Rail'', ''The Anchor Book of New American Short Fiction'', ''Micro Fictions'', BOMB, and numerous other publications. Works * ''In the Year of Long Division'' (1995), a collection published by Alfred A. Knopf. One of the last books edited there by Gordon Lish. * ''Carrying the Body'' (2002), a novel published by Scribner. * ''Further Adventures in the Restless Universe'' (2010), a collection published by Dzanc Books Dzanc Books is an American independent press book publisher. It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) private foundation. Michelle Dotter is publisher and editor-in-chief. Background Dzanc Books was founded in 2006 by Steven Gillis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen Michalski
Jen Michalski (born 1972) is an American fiction author and novelist. Biography She received her BA in Language and Literature from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1994 and an MS in Professional Writing from Towson University in 1999. She has since remained in Baltimore. Her debut novel, ''The Tide King'', was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2013 (2012 winner of BLP's Big Moose Prize). Her second novel, ''The Summer She Was Under Water,'' was published by Queens Ferry Press in 2016 and was acquired by Black Lawrence Press in 2017. Her collection of novellas ''Could You Be With Her Now'' was published in 2013 by Dzanc Books, and she also authored two collections of fiction, ''From Here'' (Aqueous Books, 2013) and ''Close Encounters'' (So New, 2007). She edited the book ''City Sages: Baltimore'' (CityLit Press, 2010), an anthology of Baltimore writers past and present, and published a chapbook, ''Cross Sections,'' with Publishing Genius Press in 2008. Her fiction has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Lavender-Smith
Evan Lavender-Smith (born 1977) is an American writer, editor, and professor. Lavender-Smith was raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He received a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and an M.F.A. in Fiction from New Mexico State University in 2004. He is the founding editor of Noemi Press and the former Editor-in-Chief of ''Puerto del Sol.'' He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Virginia Tech. Books ''From Old Notebooks'' (2010) Lavender-Smith's first book, ''From Old Notebooks'', a cross-genre work combining elements of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry and philosophy, was published in March 2010. Writing in ''Rain Taxi'', literary critic and Harvard University professor Stephen Burt called ''From Old Notebooks'' "an anti-masterpiece of an anti-novel," noting novelist David Markson's influence on the book. In ''TriQuarterly'', Barry Silesky wrote that ''From Old Notebooks'' "defies placement in a genre ... It is structured like po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lopez (writer)
Robert Lopez (born 1971) is an American writer of novels and short stories, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His fiction has appeared in many journals, including ''Bomb'', ''The Threepenny Review'', ''Vice Magazine'', ''New England Review'', ''New Orleans Review'', ''American Reader'', ''Brooklyn Rail, Hobart, Indiana Review, Literarian, Nerve, New York Tyrant'', and ''Norton Anthology of International Flash Fiction.'' He teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and Pine Manor College.'' ''He was co-editor of avant-literary magazine ''Sleepingfish. ''In 2010, he was awarded a Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, which included a grant for a three-year period.' He started a blog to have a single site for information about his work but was averse to frequent blog posts. He was posting daily ''No News Today'', but then decided to invite friends and colleagues to post. It has since been replaced with www.robertlopez.net Approach to writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph McElroy
Joseph Prince McElroy (born August 21, 1930) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is noted for his long postmodern novels such as '' Women and Men''. Personal background McElroy was born on August 21, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Brooklyn Heights. He graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1947 and was given an Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2007 from the school's Board of Governors. He graduated from Williams College in 1951. The following year, McElroy earned a master's degree from Columbia University. He served in the Coast Guard from 1952 to 1954, and then returned to Columbia to complete his Ph.D. in 1961.''World Authors 1975–1980 In 1961, McElroy married Joan Leftwich, of London, in London. She is the daughter of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews; her father, Joseph Leftwich, was a translator and anthologizer of Yiddish poetry. The McElroys' only child, Hanna, was born in 1967. McElroy assisted with the birth. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen (born October 14, 1956) is an American writer known for his experimental, lyrical, fragmentary, cross-genre narratives that question the limits of historical knowledge. Biography Lance Olsen was born in New Jersey. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1978, honors, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (1980), and an M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Virginia. For ten years he taught as associate and then full professor at the University of Idaho; for two he directed the University of Idaho's M.F.A. program. He has also taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, the University of Kentucky, on summer and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, on a Fulbright in Turku, Finland, and at various writing conferences. Since 2007 he has taught experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. From 2002 to 2018, he served as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Background Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University Bloomington in 1953, then served in the United States Navy from 1953 to 1957, where he became a lieutenant. He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Coover has served as a teacher or writer in residence at many universities. He taught at Brown University from 1981 to 2012. Coover's wife is the noted needlepoint artist Pilar Sans Coover. They have three children, including Sara Caldwell. Literary caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Valente
Anne Valente is an American writer. Her debut short story collection, ''By Light We Knew Our Names'', won the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize and was released in September 2014. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook, ''An Elegy for Mathematics''. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, The Kenyon Review and others. In 2014, Anne was the Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her essays have been published in '' The Believer'', ''Electric Literature'' and ''The Washington Post''. In 2016, Valente's debut novel, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down', was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins. Her second novel, ''The Desert Sky Before Us'', was published by HarperCollins in 2019. Valente is currently represented by Emma Patterson aBrandt & Hochman She has taught creative writing and creative non-fiction at Bowling Green State University, McNeese State University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
