Christopher Barzak is the author of the Crawford Award winning novel, One for Sorrow, which was recently made into the Sundance Feature Film, Jamie Marks is Dead. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was a finalist for the Nebula and James Tiptree Awards. His third novel, Wonders of the Invisible World, won the Stonewall Honor Award. He is also the author of Birds and Birthdays, a collection of surrealist fantasy stories, and Before and Afterlives, a collection of supernatural fantasies, which won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection. His most recent novel is, The Gone Away Place. He grew up in rural Ohio, has lived in a southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and has taught English in suburban and rural communities outside of Tokyo, Japan, where he lived for two years. Currently he teaches fiction writing in the Northeast Ohio MFA program at Youngstown State University.
Recent Posts
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Magick for Terri
This blog is mainly just serving as a website for my work at the moment, and any big updates on what’s happening in my writing life, as I rarely have time to keep it as a personal blog any longer. Here’s one of those big updates I just mentioned though. Not for myself, but for… Read more
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A few items of summer
It’s been a while since I last posted the picture of my cat screaming, and various things have occurred both before and after that, which I am aiming to catch up with and report here, in this dusty corner of the internet. Item One: As of this summer, I have new literary representation in the… Read more
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Cat screams
I have often told my friends that my cat, Kokoro (which in Japanese means heart or mind), screams at me for things. Attention, food mostly. But also just when he feels like it, he’ll just open his maw as wide as possible and let out a Tina Turner-like Big Wheels Turning-like note. Everyone says, Yeah,… Read more
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The road not taken
Today is the day. Welcome to Bordertown is officially out. And today is also the day to announce the winner of the Bordertown Lives pendant Mia Nutick has so graciously offered for my contest. And the winner is: Kathy Barreca. If you haven’t taken a little dip into the contest entrant’s pool in my previous… Read more
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How to get to Bordertown
After thirteen years of absence in the world, Bordertown–that awesome shared world of punk rock and elves that surfaced in the 80s and 90s–is coming back. It’s coming back on May 24th, to be exact, and those of us writer types who were invited to play in the new anthology have been holding contests leading… Read more
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