Lit Journal Contributors
Frank Haberle
Frank Haberle’s short stories and articles have appeared in numerous print and online journals. He has worked for New York City nonprofit youth organizations for the past 25 years, and is the Board Chair of NY Writers Coalition, which creates community writing opportunities across New York City for at-risk, homeless youth, and others in social service settings.
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Tom Hart
Teacher, cartoonist, animator, Tom Hart is creator of Hutch Owen graphic novels and comic strips, critically acclaimed by The Comics Journal, Time.com, Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal.
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John Haskel
John Haskell is the author of American Purgatorio and I Am Not Jackson Pollock.
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Morten Høi Jensen
Morten Høi Jensen is a freelance book critic. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, The Quarterly Conversation and Open Letters Monthly, among others. He is the books editor for Idiom Magazine.
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Samantha Hunt
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Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson is a PhD candidate and freelance writer from the UK. He enjoys writing about Central and Eastern Europe and has submitted articles to journals such as Transitions Online and Literature Across Frontiers. He manages and writes for the website ‘Lemberik’ – www.lemberik.org – which concerns contemporary Jewish life in Europe today. For KGB, he is learning how to write in American English – an admission he is not proud of.
Lori Jakiela
Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir Miss New York Has Everything (Warner/Hatchette 2006) and a poetry collection, The Regulars (Liquid Paper Press 2001). Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Tears in the Fence (U.K.) and elsewhere. She lives in Trafford, Pa., the birthplace of the chocolate-covered pickle.
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Olena Jennings
Olena Jennings completed her MFA at Columbia University and her MA at the University of Alberta. Her translations from the Ukrainian have been published in Poetry International, Poetry International Web, Chelsea, and the Wolf. Her feature articles and book reviews can be found on KGB Bar Lit, Fanzine, and the Millions.
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Sean Jones
Sean F. Jones is a writer who has published feature interviews with Pulitzer Prize winners, internationally bestselling authors, and MacArthur-certified geniuses, so he feels pretty bad about himself. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Etgar Keret
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Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the most popular writer among Israeli youth today. Keret started writing in 1992 and has published four books of short stories, one novella, three books of comics and a children`s book. Bestsellers in Israel, his books have received international acclaim and have been translated into 16 languages, including Korean and Chinese. Missing Kissinger has been listed among the 50 most important Israeli books of all time. In France, Kneller`s Happy Campers was one of La Fnac’s 200 books of the decade; the story, “The Nimrod Flip-Out” was published in Francis Ford Coppola`s magazine, Zoetrope (2004). Over 40 short films have been based on Keret`s stories, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998). A number of his stories have also been adapted for the stage, in Israel and abroad. Keret has received the Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize several times. He has also been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize and the Ministry of Culture’s Cinema Prize. His movie, Skin Deep, won 1st Prize at several international film festivals, and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Keret is currently a lecturer in the TV and film department at Tel Aviv University. Rutu Modan, with whom he co-wrote Dad Runs Away with the Circus, received an Andersen International Honor Citation (2002) for her illustrations.
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Ian King
Ian F. King is, among other things, a contributing editor for Slice Magazine, where he also manages their NYC Literary Events Calendar. His writing has appeared in Line, Hobart, Pindeldyboz, Take the Handle, Slice and Nylon, among other places. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Vladimir Kleyman
Vladimir Kleyman was born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives in New York City and is working on a collection of short stories.
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David Laskowski
David Laskowski lives in Fort Collins, CO.
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Alex Littlefield
Alex Littlefield is a contributor to Radar magazine and a former police correspondent for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. His play Indulgences was performed by an Oberlin College theater group, and his translation of an Argentine dogsledding memoir from the arctic north of Greenland is forthcoming in Canada. He works at an independent press in New York.
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Cecil Marcos
Cecil Marcos invented Animal Collective for his eighth grade science project. Panda Bear is a ventriloquist sock puppet worn on his left arm when he gets bored on the weekends. Aside from pioneering the luxury sundial industry and being named Georgia’s All-State high school quarterback in 2003, Cecil is one of the nation’s most accomplished recumbent tandem bicyclists. Time Out New York describes his bicycling performance as “virtuosic ... a must see. Like Lance Armstrong playing co-op Mario Kart with God.” In his free time he enjoys watching Friday Night Lights while absently flipping through old issues of the Financial Times Weekend Supplement.
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Douglas A. Martin
Born in Virginia in 1973, Douglas A. Martin was raised in Georgia. His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was selected by Colm Toibin as an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and has been adapted and staged by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia production “Kammer/Kammer.” His second novel, Branwell, has recently been published, as well as They Change the Subject, a collection of stories.
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Ted Mathys
Ted Mathys' first book of poetry, Forge, was published by Coffee House Press in 2005. A second collection, Surface to Air, will appear from CHP in 2009. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in Fence, Verse, jubilat, Web Conjunctions, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Ohio, he now bunkers in Brooklyn.
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John McCaffrey
More of John McCaffrey’s writings can be accessed at www.jamccaffrey.com.
John McCaffrey
John McCaffrey’s stories and reviews appear regularly in literary journals and anthologies. A Former New York Times Fellow, he helps to direct a New York City nonprofit and also teaches creative writing classes in Hoboken, NJ. Contact him for interview ideas at .
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Brendan McCall: Crime Corner
Born in California, McCall is an actor, director, and choreographer whose work has been presented internationally. He has taught at institutions such as the Yale School of Drama, New School for Drama, New York University, the Atlantic Acting School, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, among others. He lived in New York City for 18 years before moving to Oslo in 2008, where he is the Director of The International Theater Academy Norway (TITAN), a 2-year professional theater education program combining innovative artistic craft with practical entrepreneurship. For more information, see http://www.titanteaterskole.no.
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- » CRIME CORNER: The Secret Identities of Charles Ardai
- » CRIME CORNER: Busted: Ken Bruen & Jason Starr Kill The Lone Wolf Enterprise
- » [CRIME CORNER] Finishing The Job: Collins Completes Spillane Swan Song
- » [CRIME CORNER] The Secret Identities of Charles Ardai
- » [CRIME CORNER] Busted: Ken Bruen & Jason Starr Kill The Lone Wolf Enterprise
- » [CRIME CORNER] Lawrence Block: Romance of the Ordinary Life
- » Doing It Right: Interview with Gregg Hurwitz
- » Christa Faust’s Money Shot Cashes In
- » No Way Out: Jason Starr’s “Fake I.D.”
- » The Velvet Coffin: Michael Connelly’s The Scarecrow
Joey McGarvey
Joey McGarvey works in publishing. She is a graduate of Stanford University and is currently earning her master’s at New York University. She is also a founding member of [tk] reviews
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Kevin Moffett
Kevin Moffett was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. His stories have received the Nelson Algren Award and the Pushcart Prize, and have appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, StoryQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. “Tattooizm,” originally published in Tin House, is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories 2006. His first collection of stories, Permanent Visitors, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, judged by George Saunders, and will be published in October. He lives with his wife and young son in Gettysburg, Pa., where he will spend 2006-2007 as the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. Contact Kevin at .
Permanent Visitors by Kevin Moffett
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Joseph Morgado
Joseph Morgado currently lives in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, where he grows sunflowers and pumpkins. He is working on his first book of short fiction.
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Farid Nassif
Farid Nassif was born in Boston, studied Literature at Bennington College in Vermont and is now getting his MA in English at Brooklyn College. He regularly reads from his profane yet compelling book, “Civilized Man” at Cornelia St. Cafe, Sycamore Bar, Freddie’s, and numerous literary salons. He has also performed original works in countless venues in Boston and Los Angeles. His book is accessible on amazon.com and bn.com. Farid is now working on a second book while dedicating his days to the Human Rights Foundation.
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Luke Pearson
Luke Pearson is a soon-to-graduate illustration student and comics artist from the UK. He has been writing and drawing his own comics seriously for about a year and intends to continue doing so alongside his illustration career.
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