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I'm a fiction writer, fiction editor, former staffer at The New Yorker, Forbes Inc, and New York Times Custom Publishing. My editorial work has appeared in a variety of magazines (all of the way from Maxim to Good Housekeeping). My copy writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Condé Nast Traveler.
I am the recipient of scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (a difficult award to get) and Summer Literary Seminars in Russia.
I've been anthologized in four times. My nonfiction has been praised in The New York Times. My work as an editor was lauded in Esquire.
I have an MFA from Columbia University and a screenplay of mine was once optioned by a major film production company.
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New Fiction on Guernica: Michael McGuire
Michael McGuire, who often writes about life on the American border, has one of his best pieces, ever, in Guernica called “Rosa de la Rosas.” Michael is the author of a short story collection, The Ice Forest (Marlboro Press), named … Continue reading
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New Fiction on Guernica: Panos Karnezis
This issue of Guernica fiction has an excerpt from the novel, The Convent, to be published later this month by W.W. Norton & Co. The story of a nun who adopts a baby, it’s intense and gripping. . . Dog … Continue reading
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Electric Literature on Guernica’s 6th Anniversary Party
Literary magazine of the moment, Electric Literature, writes about Guernica‘s 6th anniversary party. It says someone stole the cheese. I know what happened: the intern stole (and then also drank) a lot of wine. She then passed the cheese around … Continue reading
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New Fiction on Guernica: Ethel Rohan
We’re going with two short-short pieces by Ethel Rohan. They’re sort-of, kind-of, about leaving and returning to Ireland. We don’t normally run micro-fiction, but I had to go with it, this time. Ethel was raised in Ireland and now lives … Continue reading
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New Fiction on Guernica
I’m not sure how many fiction pieces I’ve edited at Guernica–maybe about 100 (an exhausting thing to contemplate). This week, we have Leora Skolkin-Smith’s short story, “The Fragile Mistress,” which is an excerpt from the novel of the same name. … Continue reading
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Reading: Hosting Park-Lit in Union Sq
Park-Lit has a simple concept: writers read from their work, outside, in a public park. At 6:30 on the 21st, Guernica (in association with Park-Lit) will be having a reading in Union Square Park. (On the south side, right in … Continue reading
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PEN World Voices and Guernica: A recap
Novelist Claire Messud (who was guest-editor at Guernica recently) led a panel discussion on women, diversity, and literature. I’ll let another Guernica writer Lorraine Adams sum up the event. Continue reading
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Claire Messud in Guernica
It’s been busy at Guernica. I’ve been working on a Claire Messud guest-edited section. It’s fantastic and suggest you read. The comments section is burning up. . . Women make up 80 percent of the fiction reading audience in this … Continue reading
The Caine Prize, E.C., and Me
I wrote about the the recent Caine Prize for African Writing award for the Guernica blog. Spoiler Alert (not really, one could hardly be a surprised, I’d imagine, by what I wrote): I say that my favorite thing about the … Continue reading
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