THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for October 2007

  • Michael Ames, author of The World Beard and Moustache Championships: The First Official Book, is currently writing a book about bicycles.
  • Rachel Aviv last wrote for the Believer about competitive public speaking.
  • 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.
  • Heather Birrell is the author of the short-story collection I know you are but what am I? (Coach House Books). Her story “BriannaSusannaAlana” was recently awarded the Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. She lives in Toronto.
  • Chilean-born Roberto Bolaño cofounded the Infrarrealist poetry movement in Mexico City in the 1970s. He later moved to the Catalonia region of Spain, where, after becoming widely recognized for his novels and short stories, he published two collections of poetry: The Romantic Dogs and Three. His most recent collection, The Unknown University, was published posthumously this year.
  • Stephen Burt teaches at Harvard. His new books of poems are Parallel Play and Shot Clocks: Poems for the WNBA. His book about modern poetry and adolescence, The Forms of Youth, is out now.
  • Nick Coleman is a middle-aged journalist and broadcaster who lives in London with his family. He has spent most of his working life writing about music, but not all of it. He has been writing a book in his head for twenty-five years. The trouble is, it just won’t come out.
  • Trinie Dalton lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of a short-story collection, Wide Eyed. She also coedited Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, a book based on notes she confiscated as a high-school teacher. Her children’s book, A Unicorn Is Born, will be out from Abrams next month.
  • David Haglund is the managing editor of PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers. He lives in Brooklyn.
  • Laura Healy has studied literary translation and Latin American studies at Brown University and la Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and is coeditor of the online poetry journal PlanetOfTheMonsters.com.
  • Nick Hornby lives in North London. His new novel for young adults, Slam, will be published in October, 2007.
  • Maria Hummel is a Draper Lecturer in Nonfiction at Stanford. Her translations of the once-banned GDR poet Uwe Kolbe are in the current issue of FIELD.
  • Alex Kitnick was most recently a Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.
  • Sarah Manguso is the author of three books, most recently Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, included in One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box (McSweeney’s, 2007). She lives in Rome.
  • Alec Michod’s grandfather served in the Counter Intelligence Corps, a forerunner of the CIA, during World War II.
  • Morgan Murphy is a stand-up comedian and writer. She has been on TV and in a movie. On three occasions, she has jogged.
  • Philip Oltermann was born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1981. He has lived in London for the last ten years, where he works as a journalist. He is the co-editor of How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors (Rizzoli NY) and is currently working on a book about Anglo-German encounters.
  • Ed Park edits the Believer.
  • Nicole Rudick is the managing editor of Bookforum. She lives in Brooklyn.
  • Mark Sundeen is the author of Car Camping and The Making of Toro, and writes for Outside, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. He wrote a profile of a Jack London impersonator for the August 2006 issue of the Believer. He lives in Montana.
  • Roland Thompson was born during the Tet offensive. Later he joined the navy, and has since served in various operations. His column, “Nutrition Is a Force Multiplier,” is a partial record of the nutrients he has consumed in support of those operations, and the forces they have exerted upon him. Email Roland at mohammeds.radio@yahoo.com.
  • Milton Welch teaches at North Carolina State and regularly contributes to the Believer. His hometown is Newport News, Virginia.

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