Jason Schwartz
Jason Schwartz is the author of A German Picturesque (Alfred A. Knopf). He directs the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University.
John O’Hara
John O’Hara was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He initially made a name for himself with his short stories and later became a best-selling novelist, with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8. He was known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue. A controversial figure, his reputation for cataloging social ephemera and his personal irascibility frequently overshadowed his gifts as a storyteller. Fran Leibowitz called him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.” John Updike grouped him with Chekhov. Michiko Kakutani dismissed him as “a well-known lout.”
Michael Kimball
Michael Kimball has published two novels, The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and How Much of Us There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated into) many languages. His third novel, Dear Everybody, will be published in the UK in the spring of 2008. He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including Open City, Prairie Schooner, and Post Road. He lives in Baltimore with his wife.
Joseph Cardinale
Joseph Cardinale holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches at the University of Hartford. This is his first published story.
Peter Markus
Peter Markus is the author of three short books of short fiction: The Moon is a Lighthouse, The Singing Fish, and the recently reissued Good, Brother. His stories have appeared in past issues of 3rd Bed, Post Road, Black Warrior Review, Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, New Orleans Review, and new fictions are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly and Chicago Review. He also has a story in the recently published New Sudden Fiction published by Norton.
Lynn Crawford
Lynn Crawford is the author of four books of fiction, including Simply Separate People and Fortifiction Resort. Her work appears in various anthologies including, most recently: marks, Fence Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail Anthology, The Oulipo Compendium, lacanian ink, Lilies and Cannonball Review. She writes a regular fiction column for the Detroit based zine, marks, titled “The Mind’s Eye,” responding to different Detroit based artists, and is the editor of DETROIT: the journal published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez’s novel, Part of the World, is available now from Calamari Press. His fiction and poetry has appeared in dozens of journals, including BOMB, The Threepenny Review, The Mississippi Review, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Blackbird, Nerve, etc.
Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain. He is the director of Brown University’s Creative Writing Program and lives in Providence Rhode Island.
Robert Glück
Robert Glück is the author of the novels Margery Kempe (Serpent’s Tail Publishing, 1994), Jack the Modernist (Serpent’s Tail Pub lishing, 1995), and three collections of prose and poetry: Reader (Lapis Press, 1989), Elements of a Coffee Service (Four Seasons Foundation, 1983), and Denny Smith (Clear Cut Press, 2004). He lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Francisco State University, where he is an editor of the online journal Narrativity.
Julian Kudritzki
Julian Kudritzki has had stories published in the Chicago Review. He has an unpublished novel involving a tree fruit packing shed, an industrial accident, and the demise of a small agrarian community. He lives in New Mexico. (Pictured on Rock Creek, Montana with sister, Virginia).
Noy Holland
Noy Holland is the author of two collections of short fiction, What Begins With Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf). Her stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Open City, NOON, and others. She is an Associate Professor in the MFA program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she co-directs the Juniper Initiative. She is married to the writer Sam Michel; they live in a quiet hill town with their two young children.
John Haskell
John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and American Purgatorio, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), his first novel. His work has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, and Ploughshares. He is a contributor to the radio show The Next Big Thing. He lives in Brooklyn.
Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe grew up in Boston and moved to California when she was seventeen. Since then she has written many novels, poems and essays. She has won two NEA awards, a California Council for the Arts Award, a Guggenheim and the Lenore Marshall poetry award among others and has taught at Tufts University, Columbia, MIT and is Professor Emerita at the University of California, San Diego. A new collection of poems, The Lyrics, is due out from Graywolf Press in 2007 as well as a translation from the Polish of poems by Henia and Ilona Karmel, called A Wall of Two (UC Press).
William Walsh
William Walsh’s stories have appeared in Lit, Juked, Press, Rosebud, Crescent Review, Quarterly West, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other journals. His series of question-based derived texts sourced from the many (many) books of Calvin Trillin have appeared recently in Caketrain, Opium, Segue, Turnpike Gates, Bleeding Quill, 3711 Atlantic, and Elimae. His latest novel has been accepted by Casperian Books.
Craig Lavin
Craig Lavin was born and raised in Los Angeles. He attended the MFA program at San Francisco State in playwriting and is currently living in Manhattan.
Rosemary Griggs
Rosemary Griggs’ poetry book Sky Girl was the 2003 Alberta Prize winner and published by Fence Books. She is currently working on a new series of poems and finishing up her novel, Little Dead Girl, for which she will be seeking representation and a fat cash advance. Come on stars, align!
Andy Mister
Andy Mister painted the cover art for this issue of the NY Tyrant. He has done illustrations for Lame House Press, Rust Buckle, and the tiny. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
David Shrigley
David Shrigley was born in 1968, in Macclesfield, England. He studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1988 to 1991. He has exhibited widely in Europe and North America and his illustrations have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Esquire (Japan), Donna (Italy), Frieze (UK), The Gaurdian (UK), Maisonneuve (Canada) Du (Switzerland).David is the author of numerous books of drawings details of which can be found at redstonepress.co.uk. He now lives and works in Glasgow and is represented by the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. More information can be found at davidshrigley.com
