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AnonymousAnonymous is neither the Anonymous who wrote Primary Colors nor, sadly, the author of numerous porn novels of the Edwardian era. This Anonymous is a forty-year-old officer in the National Guard. His "Letter from Kuwait" was written in June of 2007 as he prepared to be deployed into Iraq.
Don CarpenterDon Carpenter was born in Northern California in 1931. His debut novel Hard Rain Falling was published in 1966. It was followed by Blade of Light (1967), The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories (1969), Getting Off (1971), The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan (1975), A Couple of Comedians (1979), Turnaround (1981), The Class of '49 (1985), The Dispossessed (1986) and From A Distant Place (1988). Carpenter served in the Air Force during the Korean War and was an active figure in the Bay Area literary scene of the nineteen sixties. He wrote numerous screenplays, including that for Payday (1975). In 1995, after suffering a series of debilitating illnesses, he committed suicide. Carpenter's fiction was championed in his own lifetime by Norman Mailer and Evan S. Connell. The New York Times said of Hard Rain Falling "[it] roars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight." In recent years George Pelecanos, Jonathan Lethem and Barry Gifford have all expressed their admiration. None of Don Carpenter's books are currently in print. More information about Don Carpenter and his work can be found at www.doncarpenterpage.com
Henry ChangHenry Chang is a New Yorker, a native son of Chinatown. His 2006 debut novel, Chinatown Beat, garnered praise from The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The New York Times among others. Chinatown Beat was selected Best Debut Mystery by the Florida Sun-Sentinel and was honored on several Best of 2006 lists. He has been a lighting consultant and a security director in New York City. He is currently finishing his second book, Year of the Dog, due out in 2008.
Vicki HendricksVicki Hendricks is the author of the novels Miami Purity, Iguana Love, Voluntary Madness and Sex Blues. 2007 saw the publication of Cruel Poetry, perhaps her darkest book yet, and the reprint of her debut, Miami Purity, which is now recognized as a noir classic. She lives in Hollywood, Florida, and teaches writing at Broward Community College.
Harry HunsickerHarry Hunsicker lives in Dallas. His debut, Still River, was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His latest book is entitled Crosshairs and was released in August of 2007 by St. Martin's Press. Hunsicker's short stories have appeared in Plots With Guns and the forthcoming anthology, Fedora IV. When not writing fiction, Hunsicker works as a commercial real estate appraiser and speaks on creative writing.
R. NarvaezR. Narvaez was born and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His writing has been published in Faultline, Mississippi Review and Sulphur River Literary Review. He is the founder of AsininePoetry.com and has edited the compilations Asinine Love Poetry and Asinine/11.
Jayne Anne PhillipsJayne Anne Phillips is the author of two widely anthologized collections of stories, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets, and three novels, Motherkind, Shelter and Machine Dreams. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. She was awarded The Sue Kaufman Prize (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
Scott PhillipsScott Phillips was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1961. His books include the novels The Ice Harvest, The Walkaway and Cottonwood as well as the forthcoming I Used Mamie Eisenhower: An Intimate Memoir. None of us will live to see the day when Mr. Phillips' novels are taught in the Kansas schools.
Rupert WondolowskiRupert Wondolowski edits the literary magazine Shattered Wig Review and performs in the musical group Magic Gurney Ride. He is currently working on a novel. He runs Normal's Books & Records in Baltimore.
Rudolph WurlitzerRudolph Wurlitzer is the author of the four novels (Nog, Flats, Quake and Slow Fade), as well as the non-fiction book Hard Travel to Sacred Places and numerous plays and articles. He wrote the libretto for Philip Glass' opera In the Penal Colony. His screenplays include Pat Garrret & Billy the Kid, Two-Lane Blacktop, Walker, Voyager, Little Buddha and Candy Mountain, which he co-directed.
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