Interfictions 2 (45 page)

Authors: Delia Sherman

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About the Editors

Christopher Barzak
grew up in rural Ohio, went to university in a decaying postindustrial city in Ohio, and has lived in a Southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, where he taught English in rural junior high and elementary schools. His stories have appeared in many venues, including
Nerve, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horro
r,
Salon Fantastique, Interfictions 1
, and
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
. He is the author of the novels
One for Sorrow
and
The Love We Share Without Knowing
. Currently he lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where he teaches fiction writing at Youngstown State University.

Delia Sherman
was born in Japan, raised in New York City, educated in a small town in upstate New York, overeducated in Providence, Rhode Island, and lived in Boston, Massachusetts, for many, many years before moving back to New York in 2006. She has worked in a bookstore, taught Freshman Composition, edited novels, written full-time, and taught creative writing workshops, the last two jobs being her favorites. Her stories have appeared most recently in
Realms of Fantasy, Coyote Road, Poe
, and
Troll's Eye View
. Her latest novels are
Changeling
and
The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen
, both for younger readers. As an editor, she is dedicated to publishing more stories of the kind she likes to readâstrange stories, unexpected stories, diverse stories, interstitial stories.

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Contributors

William Alexander
lives in Minneapolis with spouse (an artist) and cat (a polydactyl lunatic). His fiction has appeared in magazines (
Weird Tales, Zahir, Postscripts
, and
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
), anthologies (
Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2008, ParaSpheres 2
, and this one), and sometimes on the interwebs at willalex.net.

Nin Andrews
is the author of several books including
The Book of Orgasms, Why They Grow Wings, Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane, Dear Professor, Do You Live in a Vacuum?
, and
Sleeping with Houdini
. Her next book,
Southern Comfort
, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press.

Peter M. Ball
lives in Brisbane, Australia, writing stories and notes toward his thesis in roughly equal measure. His work has appeared in
Fantasy
and the
Dreaming Again
anthology, and he attended the Clarion South Writers Workshop in 2007. More information about his recent work is available at his website, petermball.com.

Amelia Beamer
's fiction has been published in
Red Cedar Review
(winning the 2007 Flash Fiction Contest),
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet,
and other venues, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Raymond Carver Editor's Choice Award at
Carve Magazine.

Camilla Bruce
is a Norwegian writer who has published several short stories and novellas in English over the last few years. She lives in the itsy bitsy city of Trondheim, in an itsy bitsy house with an itsy bitsy cat, her itsy bitsy son, and a strange and peculiar menagerie of other people.

Cecil Castellucci
is the author of three YA novels,
Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool
, and
Beige
, two YA graphic novels,
The PLAIN Janes
and
Janes in Love
, illustrated by Jim Rugg, and numerous short stories. She is currently working on a hybrid novel and the libretto for a multimedia opera. She has played in bands; produced and directed a feature film, a few one-woman shows, and a play; and does the occasional confessional stand-up comedy gig. She is always on the lookout for new ways to tell stories. Having lived on both coasts and both sides of the forty-ninth parallel, she appreciates a well-coordinated snow removal operation but wisely hides out where none is needed. For more information go to misscecil.com.

Lionel Davoust
is one of the most promising French writers of his generationâand something of a personal patchwork. Originally a fisheries engineer studying marine mammals, he returned to his true calling at the turn of century: literature. He edited the French fantasy magazine
Asphodale
before focusing solely on SF&F translation and writing. His stories have been reviewed by the French and Belgian press (
Le Monde, Le Soir
) and nominated for major French awards. Sometimes bittersweet or just plain crazy, he loves to change styles and voices, to try new story angles, to subvert genre boundariesâin short, to tell compelling stories without limitations.

Alan DeNiro
is the author of a short story collection,
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
, which was a finalist for the Crawford Award, and a novel,
Total Oblivion, More or Less
. His stories have appeared in many literary magazines, genre magazines, and anthologies. More of his work can be found on his website, goblinmercantileexchange.com.

Jeffrey Ford
is the author of the novels
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass
, and
The Shadow Year
. His short stories have been collected into three booksâ
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream
, and
The Drowned Life
. He lives in South Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College.

Theodora Goss
was born in Hungary and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Although she grew up on the classics of English literature, her writing has been influenced by an Eastern European literary tradition in which the boundaries between realism and the fantastic are often ambiguous. Her publications include the short-story collection
In the Forest of Forgetting
(2006);
Interfictions
(2007), a short-story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; and
Voices from Fairyland
(2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems. Her short stories and poems have won the World Fantasy and Rhysling Awards. Visit her website at theodoragoss.com.

Carlos Hernandez
is the coauthor of
Abecedarium
and the author of the novella “The Last Generation to Die” and many short stories. By day, he is a professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. He lives in Queens, which is the best borough in New York.

Alaya Dawn Johnson
's short fiction has appeared in
Interzone, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy 6
, and
Year's Best Science Fiction 11
. Her first novel,
Racing the Dark
, appeared in 2007 and the sequel,
The Burning City
, in fall 2009. In 2010, Thomas Dunne will publish
Moonshine
, the first in a series of 1920s vampire novels set in New York City. You can contact her via her website, alayadawnjohnson.com.

Shira Lipkin
lives in Boston with her husband, daughter, and the requisite cats, most of whom also write. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in
ChiZine, Electric Velocipede, Lone Star Stories, Polu Texni, Cabinet des Fees
, and the
Ravens in the Library
benefit anthology. You can track her movements at shiralipkin.com. Please do. She likes the company.

Will Ludwigsen
didn't know he wrote interstitial fiction, though his disparate appearances in
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction
, and
Weird Tales
should have given him a clue. When he isn't writing interstitial fiction, he writes interstitial nonfiction for the federal government, challenging genre boundaries with disquieting documentation and training materials. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with writer Aimee Payne and two greyhounds, also possibly writers of some sort. His website will-ludwigsen.com is even stranger than his fiction.

Colleen Mondor
is a writer and reviewer who resides in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. She has been published in
Eylsian Fields Quarterly
and
Identity Theory
, among others, and her monthly column of young adult book reviews can be found online at Bookslut.com. She also reviews for the ALA's
Booklist
. Her personal website is Chasingray.com, named for her literary hero, Ray Bradbury. It was a toss-up between Bradbury and Louis Armstong, who she maintains is one of the coolest people who ever lived. In a perfect world,
Dandelion Wine
would be on everyone's nightstand with “What a Wonderful World” as our global theme song. It's something to aspire to.

M. Rickert
has won a World Fantasy Award for best short story, and the Crawford and World Fantasy awards for her short story collection,
Map of Dreams,
published by Golden Gryphon press. She lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

David J. Schwartz
's short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including the anthologies
Paper Cities, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
, and
Twenty Epics.
His first novel,
Superpowers
, was nominated for the Nebula Award. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Stephanie Shaw
has been an actress, a theater critic, a Neo-Futurist, and a solo performer around Chicago for the last twenty years. She has recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, where she is a senior lecturer in the Theater Department, teaching acting, solo performance, and (strangely) musical theater. She has been published in the
Chicago Reader
, the
New City, Analemma Magazine, Neo-Solo: 131 Neo-Futurist Solo Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
, and
200 More Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
Her novella “Mademoiselle Guignol: A Theatrical Romance with Blood” will be published by Doorways Publications this summer. She lives in a barely functioning household in Oak Park, Illinois, with her husband and three children.

Brian Francis Slattery
is an editor, writer, and musician. He has written two novels,
Spaceman Blues
(2007) and
Liberation
(2008), both for Tor Books. This is his fourth published short story.

Lavie Tidhar
is the author of linked-story collection
HebrewPunk
(2007); novellas
An Occupation of Angels
(2005),
Cloud Permutations
(2009), and
Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God
(2010); and, with Nir Yaniv, the short novel
The Tel Aviv Dossier
(2009). He's lived on three continents and one island-nation and was last seen in Southeast Asia.

Ray Vukcevich
's fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines. Some of the stories have been collected in
Meet Me in the Moon Room
. Read more about the fiction at sff.net/people/RayV.

Elizabeth Ziemska
received an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, stepson, three dogs, and one rabbit. She has previously been published in
Tin House
and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, and she is currently at work on a novel titled
Muse of Vengeance and Sorrow
.

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If you enjoyed the stories in this book, be sure to check out the Interfictions Annex online for these additional stories:

Kelly Barnhill, “Four Very True Tales"

Kelly Cogswell, “For the Love of Carrots"

F. Brett Cox, “Nylon Seam"

Chris Kammerud, “Some Things About Love, Magic, and Hair"

Eilis O'Neal, “Quiz"

Ronald Pasquariello, “The Chipper Dialogues"

Mark Rich, “Stonefield"

Genevieve Valentine, “To Set Before the King"

www.interstitialarts.org/annex

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