THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for November/December 2007

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Andrew Ervin’s story “The Phillie Phanatic” will appear in the next issue of Fiction International. He lives in Champaign, Illinois.
  • Phyllis Fong lives in Brooklyn.
  • Jen Graves is an art critic at the Stranger in Seattle. She has also written for Art in America, Newsday, and Variety.
  • Sheila Heti is the author of Ticknor and The Middle Stories. She lives in Toronto, and is currently collaborating on a reality show with the painter Margaux Williamson.
  • Nick Hornby lives in North London. His most recent book is Slam, a novel for young adults.
  • Alexander Kauffman has worked for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Harper’s magazine. He writes on contemporary art and lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and New York City. He can be reached at alexander.kauffman@gmail.com.
  • Claudine Ko is a former senior writer/editor at Jane magazine, a contributing writer at Giant Robot magazine, and was a 2006–’07 Metcalf Institute science journalism fellow at the PBS series Nova. She divides her time between New York City and California.
  • Thomas March is a poet, teacher and critic who lives in New York City. In December, the Millay Colony for the Arts named him its 2006 Norma Millay Ellis fellow. Recent work appears in 88, New Letters, Painted Bride Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Vallum.
  • Richard Melo is the author of the novel Jokerman 8, published in 2004 by Soft Skull Press. His book reviews have appeared in the Portland Oregonian and Willamette Week.
  • Alan Michael Parker is the author or editor of nine books, including a novel, Cry Uncle, and a forthcoming collection of poems, Elephants & Butterflies. His work on museums includes essays on the Bellagio Gallery in Las Vegas and the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta.
  • Rachel Poliquin is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at M.I.T. and is currently engaged with all things taxidermy, particularly the Victorian fascination with stuffed kittens, guinea pigs, and prizewinning canaries. She lives mostly in Vancouver, near the sea.
  • Alexander Provan is a writer living in Brooklyn.
  • Leanne Shapton is the cofounder of J&L Books, a not-for-profit imprint specializing in art and photography books. She has contributed illustrations to a variety of magazines and papers, worked as a designer at the New York Times, and writes a travel column for Elle magazine. Her most recent book is Was She Pretty?, a collection of stories and drawings about jealousy.
  • Matthew Simmons is The Man Who Couldn’t Blog, the interviews editor at Hobart, and a student in Warren Wilson College’s MFA program. He lives in Seattle with his cat Emmett, and is writing a book of short stories about Upper Michigan.
  • Justin Taylor lives in New York City. He last wrote for the Believer in May, about the Codex Seraphinianus. His website is justindtaylor.net.
  • 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.
  • Paul F. Tompkins has been performing stand-up comedy for what feels like forever. You can see him on television via Best Week Ever and Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann. Mr. Tompkins was born in the 1900s.

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