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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Interfictions
I’ve certainly been writing a lot about anthologies that are out or that are coming out in the near future recently, and here’s another one, Interfictions, due out next month from Small Beer Press. It has a gorgeous cover, and the editors, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, have gone above and beyond and around and… Read more
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Best American Fantasy
Another anthology of the “Year’s Best Fantasy” you may be asking? Yes, but, if we can judge by the contents of the recommended reading list for the Best American Fantasy, which has gone live recently, it’s probably not like any of the current anthologies that present themselves as Year’s Bests. My story, “The Creation of Birds”, which appeared… Read more
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Disasters happen
The new issue of Ideomancer has appeared, featuring the previously mentioned hyper-text project Ben Rosenbaum arranged between himself, myself, Elad Haber’s self, Megan McCarron’s self, Greg Van Eekhout’s self, Tim Pratt’s self, and Kiini Ibura Salaam’s self. Skip on over to read “23 Small Disasters”, and let us know what you think (unless you hate… Read more
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Final Nebula Ballot
The final Nebula ballot for 2007 has been posted at SFWA. Congratulations to everyone whose stories and books and scripts made it this far. I myself am not holding out to win against the likes of that competition. Seeing how it’s the Oscars time of year and all, I’ll risk saying I would be made ridiculously happy… Read more
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Oscars
I watched the first few hours of the Oscars last night, and I’m not sure why everyone in the blogosphere has been so critical. I thought Ellen Degeneres was pretty funny, I liked a lot of the montage sequences for some reason, the shadow people were fun pauses in the show and the sound effects choir… Read more
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Book cover
I’ve had a version of One for Sorrow’s cover up on the page I made for the book for a while now, but today my editor sent me the final version and I’m really really happy with it. If you’re curious take a look at the One for Sorrow page and click on the cover… Read more
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