THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for November 2006

  • Heather Birrell is the author of the short story collection I know you are but what am I? (Coach House Books, 2004). She lives in Toronto.
  • Tom Bissell has felt a certain clammy shudder. He is the author of Chasing the Sea; Speak, Commentary (with Jeff Alexander); and God Lives in St. Petersburg, which won the Rome Prize and was a finalist for the Believer Book Award. His new book, The Father of All Things, will be published in March 2007. He currently lives in Rome, Italy, where he is working on a travel book about the Twelve Apostles’ tombs and a novel about a pothead.
  • Christopher Byrd is a frequent contributor to the magazine.
  • Paul Collins teaches creative nonfiction at Portland State University. His latest book is The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine.
  • George Ducker lives in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Los Angeles magazine, the Santa Monica Review, and Hobart.
  • Scott Eden is the author of Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame (Simon & Schuster, 2005). He lives in Chicago, where he writes for the Chicago Reader.
  • Andrew Ervin’s story “Yin & Yang,” cowritten with Ricardo Cortez Cruz, is pending with Fiction International. Other stories have turned up in Chicago Noir (Akashic Books), the Prague Literary Review, and elsewhere. He’s an M.F.A. student in Champaign, Illinois, and reachable at [email protected]
  • Larry Frolick is the author of three books of literary journalism, including Grand Centaur Station: Unruly Living with the New Nomads of Central Asia (2004), on the terror-theory of history. He won the 2006 Alexander Ross Award as Canada’s best new magazine journalist, and lives on a peach farm in Niagara when not on assignment.
  • Alan Gilbert’s book Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight was published earlier this year by Wesleyan University Press. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Anne Landsman’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, Bomb, and Poets and Writers. She also has an essay on marriage in the upcoming anthology The Honeymoon’s Over. Her second novel, The Rowing Lesson, will be published by Soho Press in fall/winter of 2007-2008.
  • Miranda F. Mellis is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press, forthcoming). Her stories have also appeared recently in Fence, Denver Quarterly, and Post Road. She teaches at the California College of the Arts and is an editor at The Encyclopedia Project.
  • Victoria Nelson’s last two books were The Secret Life of Puppets, a study of the supernatural grotesque, and Wild California, a collection of stories published in the U.K. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Rebecca Turnbull was born in Boston but now lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her home often houses more bikes than people.
  • Gustavo Turner reports that “Gustavo Turner” is currently working on The Book of Kleenex (Ediciones Pinguino), a thinly veiled exposé of the sex-and-drugs escapades of glamorous youth (and a few stately, plump, tenured bureaucrats) at a prestigious Ivy League university. Advance praise: “Torrid, inappropriate—and a barrel of fun!” (Krukis Review).
  • Chloe Veltman is a San Francisco–based arts journalist.
  • David Wain is a New York‒based director, writer, and actor. You may know him from Stella (the megasmash Comedy Central series), Wet Hot American Summer (the cult film he directed and cowrote), or The State (the critically acclaimed MTV comedy series).
  • Photojournalist Donald Weber lives in Toronto and Kyiv, where his work on Ukraine’s postatomic suffering won a 2006 World Press Photo Award, honorable mention. Previously, he was an architect with Rem Koolhaas’s OMA in the Netherlands. He is represented by the Polaris Agency in New York.
  • Alex Wright is a San Francisco–based writer whose work has appeared in Salon.com, Harvard magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the Utne Reader, and Library Journal. He is currently working on a book about the history of the information age, to be published in 2007 by Joseph Henry Press. He also writes regularly at alexwright.org.

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