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Harold
Jaffe
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Harold
Jaffe is the critically-acclaimed author of five fiction collections
and three novels, including "Straight Razor" (1995), "Eros Anti-Eros"
(1990), "Madonna and Other Spectacles" (1988), "Beasts" (1986), and
"Dos Indios" (1983). Jaffe's fiction has appeared in numerous journals
and has been anthologized in "Pushcart Prize," "Best American Stories,"
"Best American Humor," "Storming the Reality Studio," "American Made,"
"Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation," and "After Yesterday's
Crash." His novels and stories have been translated into seven languages.
Jaffe is editor of "Fiction International." For more, visit his website.
Othello Blues by Harold Jaffe |
Brenda
Webster
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Brenda
Webster, a Doctor of Psychology with a degree from the University
of California, Berkeley, has written two novels: "Sins of the Mothers"
(1993) and "Paradise Farm" (1999); edited her mother's journals, "Hungry
for the Light: The Journals of Ethel Schwabacher" (1993); and published
a memoir, "The Last Good Freudian" (2000). Her short fiction has appeared
in many anthologies and reviews. She has written books on Blake and
Yeats as well as translated poetry from the Italian for several international
publishers.
Tattoo Bird by Brenda Webster |
J.
Frederick Arment
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Living
part time in the Florida Keys on the sailboat Serenata, part time
in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Fred Arment is finishing a series of revolutionary
fiction and nonfiction work that brings quantum physics to bear on
the human condition. He has a Masters degree with a focus on the French
and American Enlightenment and has taught in public, private, and
state institutions, including the MBA program at Wright State University.
His work for Blue Hot Books includes "The Synthesis" and "Backbeat:
A Novel of Physics."
Backbeat: A Novel of Physics by J. Frederick Arment |
Daniel
McCormack
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Daniel
McCormack is a screenwriter and editor who lives and writes in Dayton,
Ohio. When he was twelve years old, he experienced an accident which,
while it impaired him physically, enhanced his sense of discovery
and gave him the gift of empathy. He lived in a nursing home until
the late eighties and now resides in an apartment wired with the latest
in cyber technology. His recently finished full-length movie, loosely
based on his life and experiences, is currently touring the festival
circuit.
Wisdom in the Shadows by Daniel McCormack |
Rick
Marx
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Rick
Marx scripted Columbia Tri-Star's 1994 suspense thriller, "Double
Obsession," starring Margaux Hemingway and Frederic Forrest. Most
recently, he collaborated on "Up Late with Joe Franklin" (Scribner),
a memoir of America's first and longest running talk show host.
Bossby Rick Marx |
| Wang Meng | Wang
Meng was born in Beijing in 1934. Labeled a "rightest" in 1957 for
one of his short stories that mildly criticized bureaucracy, he left
Beijing to spend sixteen years in rural Xinjiang. When his "rightest"
label was removed in 1979, he became a professional writer. Wang Meng
was appointed Minister of Culture in 1986, but stepped down after
the 1989 student demonstration in Tiananmen Square.
Kitty and Other Stories by Wang Meng, translated by Zhu Hong |
| Zhu Hong, editor | Zhu
Hong, Research Professor at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, in Beijing, is currently visiting professor
at Boston University, where she teaches a course on Chinese women's
writing. She has translated and published two volumes of contemporary
Chinese short stories.
Kitty and Other Stories by Wang Meng, translated by Zhu Hong |
| C. J. Hannah | Based
in San Francisco, Hannah is a retired electrical engineer who has
studied the techniques of science fiction since he was a boy, and
has mastered them in this first book of a trilogy, Ghost Dancers.
Ghost Dancers by C. J. Hannah |
Kenneth
Masner
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An
environmentalist and sailor by avocation, Kenneth Masner lives with
his wife in New England and works as a writer of short stories and
novels. A former New York book editor and psychologist, he is also
a professor of English at Boston College.
Local Knowledge by Kenneth Masner |
| Dina Rubina | Dina
Rubina made her debut as a writer at age sixteen and went on to publish
her stories regularly in leading Soviet and Russian magazines. Her
best-selling 1977 story "When Will It snow?" was made into a film
and broadcast on radio and television. Rubina emigrated to Israel
in 1990 and was awarded the Arie Dulchik Prize for Literature. In
1993, her novella "In Thy Gates" was nominated for the Russian Booker
Prize. Rubina's latest book is "The Messiah Is coming!" (Tel Aviv:
Ivrus, 1996). "On Upper Maslovka" is now a movie in Russia.
On Upper Maslovka by Dina Rubina, translated by Marian Schwartz |
Marian
Schwartz, translator
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Marian
Schwartz has been translating Russian fiction, history, philosophy,
and criticism for over twenty years. Her publications include many
works by Nina Berberova and Edward Radzinsky's "The Last Tsar."
On Upper Maslovka by Dina Rubina, translated by Marian Schwartz |