Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology (51 page)
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Authors: ed. Pela Via
Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction, most recently the limited edition novella
Baby Leg
. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Slovenian. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University’s Literary Arts Program. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship.
See also:
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Sean P Ferguson is an EMT and a PST for the state of New Jersey. In his off time he reads and writes all he can. His work has been published in the literary journal
Cellar Door
and in
Colored Chalk
. He is currently working on a novel, a number of short stories, and reviews. You can follow him at
www.SeanPFerguson.com
.
See also:
"Inside Out" by Sean P Ferguson
Amanda Gowin lives in the foothills of Appalachia with her husband and son. Her stories have been published in
BlackHeart Magazine
and
Thunderdome
. She has always written and always will.
See also:
"The World Was Clocks" by Amanda Gowin
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
JR Harlan is from Southern California. He is fond of words, women, and whiskey. He runs
Nefarious Muse
, a short fiction blog at
www.nefariousmuse.com
.
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Gordon Highland is the author of the novels
Major Inversions
and the forthcoming
Flashover
. A member of The Velvet since 2006, he is a site moderator and one of its most frequent posters. Gordon has been directing videos professionally for over fifteen years, and lives in the Kansas City area, where he also enjoys writing, recording, and performing music. Visit him at
gordonhighland.com
.
See also:
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Anthony David Jacques has bagged groceries, sold women’s clothing, booked international travel, roasted coffee, repossessed cars, survived cancer and Christianity, gotten married, written a novel, and now he works as a gemologist while slaving over prose. Writing is what he does to make sense of everything else. His short fiction has been published at
Colored Chalk, Dogmatika, Troubadour 21, Pulp Metal Magazine
and
Outsider Writers Collective
. He is currently at work on his second novel. www.anthonydavidjacques.com
See also:
"The Liberation of Edward Kellor" by Anthony David Jacques
Mark Jaskowski lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he works rather strange service industry jobs and writes at the picnic table near his apartment. This is his first published work.
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Jeremy Robert Johnson is the Bizarro author of the cult hit
Angel Dust Apocalypse
, the Stoker Nominated novel
Siren Promised
(w/Alan M. Clark), and the end-of-the-world freak-out
Extinction Journals
. His fiction has been acclaimed by
Fight Club
author Chuck Palahniuk and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines. In 2008 he worked with The Mars Volta to tell the story behind their Grammy Winning album. In 2010 he spoke about weirdness and metaphor as a survival tool at the Fractal 10 conference in Medellin, Colombia. Jeremy runs Bizarro imprint Swallowdown Press and is working on a host of new books.
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Stephen Graham Jones started writing in 1990, in an emergency room. Ten years later, his first novel came out, and, since then, there have been six more, and two collections. He has also had some hundred and thirty stories published, anthologized, and included in annuals and textbooks. And he still finds himself in the emergency room more than he really planned. Jones teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has been a member of The Velvet since 2005. More at
www.demontheory.net
.
See also:
"The Road Lester Took" by Stephen Graham Jones
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
The Return of Independence by Phil Jourdan
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Transcript: Stephen Graham Jones