Contributors
- Steve Almond is the author of the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B. B. Chow. He lives and rocks outside Boston.
- Stephen Burt’s new books of poems are Parallel Play (Graywolf Press) and Shot Clocks: Poems and an Essay for the WNBA (Harry Tankoos).
- Christopher Byrd is a frequent contributor to the magazine.
- Stephen Elliott is the author of six books, most recently My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. He lives in San Francisco. stephenelliott.com.
- Neil Freeman’s last Believer chart, a presidential election flowchart, was published a year ago. He is the editor of and sole contributor to fakeisthenewreal.org.
- Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, a collection of his columns from this magazine.
- Scott Indrisek is the associate editor of Anthem magazine. You can read his entirely inappropriate short story “Eating the Dog” in the summer issue of Failbetter. He lives in Brooklyn.
- Christopher Kennedy is the author of Nietzsche’s Horse, Trouble with the Machine, and Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, due from BOA Editions next year. He is the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Syracuse University.
- Alex Kitnick studies art history at Princeton University. He is also a 2006‒2007 Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.
- Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, and Home Land. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.
- Morgan Meis is an editor at 3 Quarks Daily and a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts collective in New York.
- Peter Orner is the author of Esther Stories and a novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, McSweeney’s, and the Paris Review, as well as The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize XXV. The recepient of 2006 Guggenheim fellowship, Orner teaches in the graduate writing program at San Francisco State University.
- Rolf Potts is the author of Vagabonding (Random House, 2003). His essays have appeared in Salon, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, and the 2000 and 2006 editions of The Best American Travel Writing. When not traveling, he is based in rural Saline County, Kansas.
- Davy Rothbart makes Found magazine, contributes to public radio’s This American Life, and wrote a book of stories called The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas (Simon & Schuster). His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and High Times. If you’ve found something cool, please send it to him at his folks’ house—details at foundmagazine.com.
- Edward Schwarzschild is the author of the novel Responsible Men (Algonquin), which was chosen by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best books of 2005. His short story collection, No Rest for the Middleman, will be published by Algonquin in fall 2007. He currently teaches fiction writing and contemporary literature at the University at Albany, SUNY. For more info, visit responsiblemen.com.
- Karla Starr is words editor for Willamette Week in Portland, Ore., and a freelance writer for publications including Seattle Weekly and Entertainment Weekly. She is currently at work on a novel.
- Jill Stauffer bakes many cakes, wears many shoes, and, currently, is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow teaching in the philosophy department at Haverford College. See her goof off at h2so4.net.
- R. Emmet Sweeney was proudly born in Buffalo. He writes for the Village Voice, IFC News, and helps to maintain the film blog Termite Art.
- Anne Trubek, a professor at Oberlin College, writes in her house in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Since she’s not yet dead (or famous), hers is a happy house. Stop by for a visit.
