Graduate of the MFA fiction-writing program at Columbia University, and currently
editor-at-large at Pif Magazine, where 94 of his interviews with writers
have been published during the past 12 years. His most recent fiction has appeared
in Confrontation, The Literary Review, Del Sol Review, and Writers
Notes.
“One on One” Archive at Pif Magazine
Book tour in Bend, OR
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Author of six novels, and recipient of an AWP Award for Best Novel (The Book
of Mamie), a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a South Florida
Sun-Sentinel Award for Favorite Book of the year (The Altar of the Body),
a Milwaukee Magazine Best Short Story of the Year Award, a Pushcart Honorable
Mention—and, most recently, a 2013 Indie Book Award (Minnesota Memoirs was
chosen as Winner in the Short Story category).
Brenna’s latest books include a memoir, Murdering the Mom (Wordcraft
of Oregon, 2012); and a collection of short stories, Minnesota Memoirs
(Serving House Books, 2012).
His novel, The Holy Book of the Beard, which he says is one of his favorites,
was re-released in 2010 (New American Press). A New York Times review of
this book says, “It is loaded with all the ingredients of an underground
classic...it is nearly impossible to put down.”
Brenna’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Cream City Review, SQ,
Agni, The Nebraska Review, The Literary Review, The Madison Review, New Letters,
and numerous other literary venues. His work has been translated into six
languages.
servinghousejournal [at] gmail [dot] com
www.duffbrenna.com
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Minna Proctor
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Co-publisher of Serving House Books and a faculty member in Fairleigh Dickinson
University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. His most recent short story
collection, The Lost Ones, was published in 2012.
Cummins has published more than 100 stories in such magazines as Kansas Quarterly,
Other Voices, Crosscurrents, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Green Hills
Literary Lantern, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Arabesques,
and Confrontation, and on the Internet. He also has published memoirs,
essays, articles, and reviews.
www.waltercummins.com
Author of the poetry collections,
Overpass and
Uncontainable Noise; and two chapbooks,
Murder on Gasoline Lake (originally published in Black Warrior
Review and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2007), and
Nine Poems and Three Fictions (available in The Literary
Review’s Summer 2008 chapbook issue).
A story in The Southern Review earned him a Special Mention in
Pushcart Prizes 2011. In June 2012, Massachusetts Review
published three installments from his “Black Guy, Bald Guy”
series of fictions.
[Davenport is Featured Author in SHJ-6.]
www.gasolinelake.com
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Robert MacCready
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Currently the Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois,
where he works in the fields of comparative literature and trauma studies.
He also holds an MFA from Ohio State University. For the academic year 2008-09,
he was a visiting assistant professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Elliott’s drama, nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have
appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, Jacket Magazine, The
Literary Review, Natural Bridge, New Letters, North Dakota Quarterly, A Public
Space, and The Southeast Review, among others.
He is the author of a collection of short fiction, From the Crooked Timber,
and three poetry chapbooks: The Mutable Wheel, Lucid Bodies and Other
Poems, and A Vulgar Geography. He is also the co-editor, with Kyle
Minor, of The Other Chekhov.
Derek Alger’s
interview of Elliott appears in Pif Magazine (January 2013).
Here’s a sample:
DA: So, tell the truth, are you now a pathological PhD guy?
OE: Maybe. I have been seriously considering a second PhD or
at least a few more MAs in fields as wide-ranging as law, physics, and psychology.
I suffer a constant intellectual wanderlust, which is why I love writing so much.
With writing, I can research pretty much anything I want to whatever degree I want
and have a justification for doing so....
[Elliott was Featured Author in
SHJ-5.]
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Kennedy’s latest books include the novels of the Copenhagen Quartet, which
are being published by Bloomsbury world-wide: In the Company of Angels
(2010) and Falling Sideways (2011), with the third to follow in June 2013
(Kerrigan in Copenhagen, A Love Story) while the fourth will appear after
that.
His stories, essays, and translations appear regularly—this spring will see
the publication of “My White House Days,” a wry account of his service
in the White House in 1963 (in New Letters); “Humanitarians at the
Grate,” about his visit to a maximum security prison’s writing group
(in Writer’s Chronicle); and translations of the Danish poet Henrik
Nordbrandt (in American Poetry Review).
Others have appeared recently or will do so soon in the New Yorker on-line
edition, Boston Review, Epoch, Ecotone, the Southern Review, the
South Carolina Review, Poet Lore, Absinthe, McNeese Review, Main Street
Rag, and on the pages of Serving House Journal.
Kennedy’s Getting Lucky: New & Selected Stories, 1982-2012 was
published last year by New American Press. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program
of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and lives in Copenhagen.
[Kennedy was Featured Author
in SHJ-1.]
www.thomasekennedy.com +
www.copenhagenquartet.com
Lives in Potrero, California. His handbook for writing poetry, In the
Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop, is widely used.
His most recent collections are The Gods of Rapture (City Works Press,
2006) and The First Noble Truth, (University of Tampa Press, 2007).
[Kowit was Featured Author in SHJ-2.]
servinghousejournal [at] gmail [dot] com
stevekowit.com
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Gary Gibbons
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Copy editor, Web designer, winner of an Eric Hoffer Best New Writing Editor’s
Choice Award (2007), and two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize.
She and her husband Gary Gibbons live north of Seattle, where they design and build
custom websites. They also share obsessions for sci-fi movies, flower gardens, and
keeping honey bees in the backyard. Both are third-year beekeepers working toward
Journeyman status in the Washington State Master Beekeepers Program.
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Has published stories, essays, reviews, and interviews in a number of journals
and anthologies, including Pif Magazine, VerbSap, Perigee, The MacGuffin,
and Calyx.
Winner of an Eric Hoffer Best New Writing Editor’s Choice Award for 2008 and
a Special Mention for the 2010 Pushcart Prize, Rycraft is chair of the English
department at Mt. San Jacinto College in Menifee, California, where she was recently
named Faculty of the Year.
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