New Jersey Noir (35 page)

P
AUL
M
ULDOON
is now Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University. From 1999–2004 he was a professor of poetry at the University of Oxford. In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of the
New Yorker
. Muldoon’s collections of poetry include
New Weather
(1973),
Mules
(1977),
Quoof
(1983),
Madoc: A Mystery
(1990),
The Annals of Chile
(1994),
Hay
(1998),
Poems 1968-1998
(2001),
Moy Sand and Gravel
(2002),
Horse Latitudes
(2006), and
Maggot
(2010).

J
OYCE
C
AROL
O
ATES
is the author of a number of
noir
works of fiction including
Rape: A Love Story, Beasts, A Fair Maiden, The Female of the Species
,
The Museum of Dr. Moses,
and most recently
Give Me Your Heart.
She has edited
American Gothic Tales, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
, and
The Best American Mystery Stories.
She has been a resident of Princeton, New Jersey, since 1978.

A
LICIA
O
STRIKER
has published thirteen poetry collections including
The Book of Seventy,
which received the 2009 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry.
The Crack in Everything
and
The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1969–1989
were both National Book Award finalists. As a critic, Ostriker has written several books on poetry and on the Bible. She is Professor Emerita of Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency poetry MFA program of Drew University.

R
OBERT
P
INSKY’S
Selected Poems
was published in 2011. His recent anthology, with accompanying audio CD, is
Essential Pleasures.
His honors include the Harold Washington Award from the city of Chicago and the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for his translation of
The Inferno of Dante
. The videos from his Favorite Poem Project can be viewed at
www.­favoritepoem.­org
.

B
ILL
P
RONZINI
has been a full-time writer since 1969. He has published seventy-five novels, including four in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg and thirty-five in his long-running “Nameless Detective” series. Also to his credit are four nonfiction books, and three hundred short stories of which sixty bear the Malzberg/Pronzini byline. Among his numerous awards is the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master, which he received in 2008.

S.J. R
OZAN
, author of thirteen crime novels, is an Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity award winner, as well as a recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award. She’s a lifelong New Yorker, which means she grew up within sight of New Jersey, and specifically Newark. She misspent a shameful amount of her childhood at the late lamented Palisades Amusement Park and is a huge Cory Booker fan. Her latest book is
Ghost Hero
. For more information, visit
www.­sjrozan.­com
.

J
ONATHAN
S
ANTLOFER
is the author of
The Death Artist, Color Blind, The Killing Art, Anatomy of Fear,
and
The Murder Notebook
. He is the recipient of a Nero Wolfe Award, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. He is coeditor, contributor, and illustrator of the anthology
The Dark End of the Street
, and editor/contributor of
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
. He lives in New York where he is currently at work on a new novel.

H
IRSH
S
AWHNEY
moved to Jersey City in 2009, when he received a fellowship to teach and study writing at Rutgers-Newark University. He is the editor of
Delhi Noir
, published by Akashic Books, which is being translated into French and Italian. His writing has appeared in the
New York Times Book Review
, the
Guardian
, and
Outlook Traveller.
He is working on his first novel.

G
ERALD
S
LOTA’S
photographs have been widely exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad. His work is included in collections at the L.A. County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. His images have appeared in the
New York Times Magazine,
the
New Yorker,
and
Art in America.
Awards include a MacDowell Artist Residency and Mid-Atlantic Fellowship grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2001 and 2009
.
For more information, visit
www.­geraldslota.­com
.