THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for February 2007

  • Rachel Aviv is a student in the graduate writing program at Columbia University and has written for the Village Voice, the Poetry Foundation, and the New York Times.
  • Chris Bachelder is the author of the novels U.S.!, Bear v. Shark, and Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (an ebook available free at mcsweeneys.net/bachelder). He teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
  • Carrie Brownstein is a musician and writer living in Portland, Oregon.
  • Stephen Burt’s new books are Parallel Play and Shot Clocks: Poems for the WNBA. His study of modern poetry and adolescence gets published in late 2007.
  • Phil Busse left the Portland Mercury after six years as the managing editor to start up the Northwest Institute, a summer program to teach college students about how arts and the media can bring about social change. He also recently completed his home-remodel with all fingers and limbs intact.
  • Sarah Cook is a contemporary art curator, an academic, and a Canadian who lives in the seventh tallest building in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
  • Stephen Elliott is the author of six books, most recently My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up.
  • John Freeman is president of the National Book Critics Circle. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, and the Wall Street Journal.
  • Greg Larson lives, works, and writes in San Francisco, which is realistic.
  • Alec Michod’s first novel is The White City, set at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. His second novel has just been rejected by pretty much everybody.
  • In June 2007, Little, Brown and Co. will publish Rick Moody’s Right Livelihoods, a collection of three novellas.
  • Adam Novy teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Jack Pendarvis has written two books of short stories, The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure and Your Body Is Changing. His first novel, titled Awesome, will be published next year.
  • Michelle Richmond’s novel about San Francisco, The Year of Fog, will be released in March. She publishes the litzine Fiction Attic and is the author of Dream of the Blue Room and The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress.
  • Jim Ruland works at a casino in Southern California and is the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome.
  • Michael Schulman works at the New Yorker, where he covers theater for Goings on About Town. He recently played August Strindberg’s pet monkey in an adaptation of Hedda Gabler starring robots.
  • Ghita Schwarz is an attorney who lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
  • James M. Stubenrauch lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor at a leading nursing journal.
  • Lori Waxman has published art criticism in Artforum and Parachute and has written catalogue essays on the work of Jenny Holzer, Arturo Herrera, and Eugenie Alter Propp, among others.

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