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Zyzzyva (magazine)
''Zyzzyva'' is a triannual magazine of writers and artists. It places an emphasis on showcasing emerging voices and never before published writers in addition to the already established. Based in San Francisco, it began publishing in 1985. ''ZYZZYVAs slogan is "The Last Word," referring to " zyzzyva", the last word in the American Heritage Dictionary. A zyzzyva is an American weevil. The accent is on the first syllable. Editors The founder was Howard Junker. He retired from the magazine in 2010 and named Laura Cogan as editor-in-chief. In 2023, Managing Editor Oscar Villalon became editor in chief, the third editor in the publication's history. Awards Work from the magazine has received the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and has been included in ''The Best American Short Stories'' and '' The Best American Nonrequired Reading''. Notable Contributors Notable contributors include Haruki Murakami, Peter Orner, Kay Ryan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Guterson, Tom Bisse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell (born January 9, 1974) is an American journalist, critic, and writer, best known for his extensive work as a writer of video games, including ''The Vanishing of Ethan Carter'', '' Battlefield Hardline'', and '' Gears 5''. His work has been adapted into films by Julia Loktev, Werner Herzog and James Franco. Personal life Bissell studied English at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. In 1996, when he was 22 years old, Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a volunteer for the Peace Corps. He was there for seven months before returning home. He worked as a book editor in New York City and edited, among other books, ''The Collected Stories of Richard Yates'' and Paula Fox's memoir ''Borrowed Finery''. He is a frequent reviewer for ''The New York Times Book Review''. Bissell's father served in the Marines during the Vietnam War, alongside author and journalist Philip Caputo. The two remained friends during Bissell's childhood and Caputo read Bissell's work and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Folk
Kate Folk is an American author of short stories, novels and essays. Her book of short stories, ''Out There'', was published in 2022, was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. and was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Review of Books, and Jezebel. It has been translated into Korean and Spanish. In 2020, it was announced that Folk was developing a television show with Sharon Horgan for Hulu A feature screenplay written by Folk was selected for the 2024 Black List. Her debut novel, ''Sky Daddy'', was published in 2025. Life Kate Folk was born in Iowa City, IA. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Folk has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell (2017), Willapa Bay AiR (2023), the Vermont Studio Center (2014 and 2016), and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2013). From 2016 to 2019, she was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts Folk has published short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives. Her first collection of poetry, ''A Change of World'', was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Auden went on to write the introduction to the book. Rich famously declined the National Medal of Arts to protest House Speaker Newt Gingrich's vote to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Early life and education Adrienne Cecile Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the elder of two sisters. Her father, pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington. His best-known book is the semi-autobiographical young adult novel, '' The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'' (2007), which won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). He also wrote '' The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'' (1993), a collection of short stories, which was adapted as the film '' Smoke Signals'' (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His first novel, '' Reservation Blues'', received a 1996 American Book Award. His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, '' War Dances'', won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a American Jews, Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the creative writing MFA program at University of California at Irvine. While at UCI she studied with Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff. She received ArtsBridge scholarships and worked with mentor Keith Fowler to create writing programs for K-12 students in Orange County, California. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California where she served as Director of the USC PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from 2012 to 2015. In the past, she taught a class in surrealist writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Extension Writers' Program and was a senior artist at the non-profit theater worksho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Taro Greenfeld
Karl Taro Greenfeld (born 1965) is a journalist, novelist and television writer known primarily for his articles on life in modern Asia and both his fiction and non-fiction in ''The Paris Review''. Biography Born in Kobe, Japan, to a Japanese mother and a Jewish-American father, the writers Fumiko Kometani and Josh Greenfeld. Greenfeld grew up in Los Angeles and went to college in New York City, graduating from Sarah Lawrence in 1987. He served as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme in Japan from 1988 to 1989. A regular contributor to publications such as '' GQ'', ''The Atlantic'' and ''Vogue'', Greenfeld was the managing editor of '' Tokyo Journal'' before becoming the editor of ''Time Asia'' from 2002–2004 and editor-at-large at ''Sports Illustrated'' from 2004–2007. He was the Tokyo correspondent for The Nation. He is the author of three books about Asia: ''Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation'' and '' Standard Deviations: Growing Up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (writer)
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, ''The Orphan Master's Son'', and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection '' Fortune Smiles''. He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing. Early life Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He was raised in Tempe, Arizona and attended Marcos de Niza High School. Education Johnson earned a BA in Journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, though he studied principally with the fiction writer Ron Carlson. He earned an MFA from the writing program at McNeese State University in 1996, where he studied with Robert Olen Butler and John Wood. In 2001, he earned a PhD in English from Florida State University. Janet Burroway directed his dissertation. Career Johnson is currently a San Francisco writer and professor in creative writing at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Sada
Daniel Sada Villarreal (February 25, 1953, in Mexicali, Baja California – November 18, 2011, in Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, journalist, and writer, whose work has been hailed as one of the most important contributions to the Spanish language. Life Sada was born in Mexicali in 1953. He studied journalism and Spanish literature in Sacramento, Coahuila, showing especial affinity for the works of Dante and Ovid. Sada later said of his early influences, his first contacts with literature, and the metric structures he admired: "I have a deep knowledge, from childhood, of the most elemental constructions of these metric forms, so characteristic of Spanish. In my primary school in Sacramento, Coahuila, Panchita Cabrera, a rural schoolteacher who was an ardent fan of the Spanish Golden Age (a type that no longer exists) taught us these phonetic techniques with one goal in mind: that we might fine-tune our ears in order to appreciate the expressive delicacy and virulence of ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Gold
Herbert Gold (March 9, 1924 – November 19, 2023) was an American novelist. Early life Herbert Gold was born on March 9, 1924, in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio, to a Russian Jewish family. His parents were Samuel S. and Frieda (Frankel) Gold. His father ran a fruit store and later a grocery store.Robert Kaiser: Carnival and Chaos: An Interview with Herbert Gold'. In: The Paris Review, May 31, 2018. Gold memorialized his hometown in his first book, ''Birth of a Hero'' (1951). He attended Taft Elementary and Lakewood High School. Gold moved to New York City at age 17 after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. While there, he studied philosophy at Columbia University and became affiliated with the burgeoning Beat Generation, which resulted in a lifelong friendship with writer Allen Ginsberg. His studies were interrupted when he served in the United States Army from 1943 until 1946, during World War II. In 1946, Gold graduated from Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman (born August 20, 1975) is an American poet. He and his identical twin brother, Michael Dickman, also a poet, were born in Portland, Oregon. Life The Dickman twins (Matthew is the younger and slightly taller) were raised in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, which declined into a dangerous neighborhood after a highway was built through it in 1975. Their mother, Wendy Dickman, raised them alone; her stepfather was the father of poet Sharon Olds. They have a younger half-sister and an older half-brother and half-sister through their father, Allen Hull. After starting at the elementary school across the street, the boys attended private schools. Matthew Dickman went to Portland Community College and then graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001; the brothers then studied creative writing together at the University of Texas at Austin. The twins had a brief stint as actors, featuring in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film ''Minority Report'' as the precog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers. Life Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to California at age 16, which is where much of her early fiction takes place. She moved to New York City in the mid-seventies. There, she connected with writer and editor Gordon Lish, with whom she maintained a long professional relationship. She formerly was professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. She was the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Harvard University from 2009 to 2014. Additionally, she taught fiction in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Duke University, The New School, Brooklyn College, and Princeton University. She is also a contributing editor at ''The Alaska Quarterly Review''. A dog enthusiast, Hempel is a founding board member of the Deja Foundation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
