OPEN CITY #25 CONTRIBUTORS’
NOTES
Howard Altmann is a poet and playwright living in New York City.
His first book of poems, Who Collects the Days, was published in 2005.
Jonathan Ames is the author of the novels I Pass Like Night,
The Extra Man, and Wake Up, Sir!, and the essay collections My Less than Secret
Life, What’s Not to Love?, and I Love You More than You Know. His graphic
novel, The Alcoholic, with artwork by Dean Haspiel, will be published this fall
by DC Comics. The Double Life Is Twice as Good: Essays is forthcoming in 2009
from Scribner.
Charles Bukowski was born in Anderbach, Germany in 1920 and grew up in
Los Angeles. He published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including
Legs, Hips, and Behind; Post Office, Barfly, and Notes of a Dirty Old Man. He
died in 1994 in San Pedro, California. The piece in this issue will appear in
Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Poems and Essays 1944–1990,
edited by David Calonne, forthcoming from City Lights in the fall.
Mark C is a New York City–based musician and photographer.
He is a founding member of the postpunk bands Live Skull and Spoiler. He sings
and plays guitar in International Shades, whose second album Luv & Terror
will be released in August on Gifted Children Records. His photographs have been
featured on several album covers, including Live Skull’s Dusted and Sugar’s
Copper Blue.
Barbara Fillon grew up in Tennessee, earned a BA in English literature
at the University of Chicago, and now lives in New York City.
Rivka Galchen grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, the child of Israeli
immigrants. She attended Princeton and went on to get her MD at Mount Sinai School
of Medicine. Galchen was a Robert Bingham Fellow and Writing Instructor Fellow
at Columbia’s MFA program, has been published in The New Yorker, Zoetrope,
and Harper’s, and was awarded a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award.
Her debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, will be published by Farrar, Straus
and Giroux this spring.
Jon Groebner lives in Seattle with his wife and son and daughter. He
is writing a novel.
Duncan Hannah is a Manhattan-based painter who has had over forty solo
exhibitions since his debut in 1981. His work is in the permanent collections
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chicago Art Institute. He is represented
by James Graham & Sons.
Ellen Harvey was born in Kent, England and lives in New York
City. Her work has recently been exhibited at Luxe Gallery, Magnus Müller
(Berlin), and the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Giuseppe O. Longo holds degrees in mathematics and electronic engineering
and is professor of Information Theory at the University of Trieste, Italy. His
real love, however, is literature, which, as he says, “has saved him from
reductionism.” He has published three novels, eight collections of short
stories, and a collection of plays. His work has received a variety of awards
and prizes and has been translated from Italian into French, German, Portuguese,
Russian, and now English.
James B. Michels is a native of Michigan. He has a PhD in literature
and has published critical articles on James Joyce, Roland Barthes, and Yves Bonnefoy.
He teaches Italian language and culture at Wayne State University in Detroit .
John O’Connor is from Kalamazoo, Michigan. His writing has appeared
in Quarterly West, The Believer, Gastronomica, The Financial Times, and The Best
Creative Nonfiction 2006. He lives in New York City.
Jennifer Richter is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer
in Poetry at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in many publications,
including Poetry, Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, and The Healing Muse.
Said Shirazi lives in suburban New Jersey. His fiction has recently
appeared in Fifth Wednesday and is forthcoming in Ninth Letter. He also writes
about music and TV for the online journal Printculture.
Michael Scoggins was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Virginia.
He received his MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He
lives and works in Brooklyn, and has gallery representation in Atlanta, Miami,
New York, San Francisco, and Vienna.
Robert Stone is the acclaimed author of seven novels, including
A Hall of Mirrors (winner of the National Book Award), A Flag for Sunrise, Children
of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls, and the nonfiction
work Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties. His short-story collection, Bear and
His Daughter, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, Stone lives with his wife in New York City.
Ben Carlton Turner was born in Walnut Creek, California. He has
been published in The Believer, Salt Hill, and others. Longer works include a
chapbook entitled The Death of Good Sailor Bob. He lives and works in New York
City and is currently completing a novel.
Sarah Borden Wareck holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program
for Writers. Her story collection, East Side Stories, was a semifinalist for the
2007 Sarabande Books Mary McCarthy Prize Contest, judged by Mary Gaitskill. Her
work has appeared in several journals, including Willow Springs, Beloit Fiction
Journal, Chicago Reader, Other Voices. She lives with her two daughters in New
Haven and is working on a novel.
