Mad Hatters' Review: Jonathan Baumbach, Harold Jaffe, and Sheila E. Murphy

Jonathan Baumbach , son of a painter, father of a filmmaker, is the author of fifteen books, including the much-heralded B, On the Way to My Father's Funeral, D-Tours, Separate Hours, Reruns, Babble, The Life and Times of Major Fiction and A Man to Conjure With. His short stories have been widely anthologized, including O.Henry Prize Stories and Best  American Short Stories. A former chairman of the National Society of FilmCritics, he co-founded Fiction Collective, the first national fictionwriters' cooperative in America.

Harold Jaffe, a Mad Hatters' Review contributor, is the author of 14 volumes of fiction and "docufiction," including: Sex for the Millennium; 15 Serial Killers; Jesus Coyote; Terror-dot-Gov; Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Culture; and Eros Anti-Eros.He's the editor-in-chief of Fiction International,  a yearly journal devoted to innovative and/or committed writings, and Professor of English and ComparativeLiterature at San Diego State University

Sheila E. Murphy's most recent full-length books include The Case of the Lost Objective (Case) (Otoliths Press, 2007) and Continuations, with Douglas Barbour (The University of Alberta Press, 2006). Murphy co-foundedand coordinated the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series for twelve years.  She has engaged in a broad range of poetic styles over nearly three decades of writing and publication.  She hasalso joined forces with many poetic collaborators.  A few of her poems maybe found in Issue 9 of Mad Hatters' Review.