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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Standing up
I love this kid. Let us have more people with his courage. Let us have less people like the censoring, word-phobic, body-phobic school librarians mentioned in this article. The ones that haven’t been quoted out of context, that is. (Thanks, Gwenda). 😉 And read Scott Westerfeld’s response to it as well. Read more
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Judges needed
Judges are needed for storySouth’s 2007 Million Writers Award. The award honors the best short stories published online in the previous year. This is an award Richard Bowes, a noted speculative fiction writer, won last year with his story “There’s a Hole in the City”, which had been published in Scifiction. Because the award considers stories Read more
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Kant on peace
Lately I’ve doing some translation work for a Japanese publisher that is making a bilingual book on peace for teens, using Immanuel Kant’s philosophy and theory of how peace is established and maintained. So I’ve been reading Kant in English and Japanese to do this. I’d read a little of Kant previously but not enough, so it’s Read more
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March of the Penguins
Have you seen “March of the Penguins”? I missed it when it was released. I was still in Japan. But I’ve been watching lots of movies that came out in the two years I was gone lately, and tonight I remedied having missed this documentary about the mating life of penguins that it seems so many Read more
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More good news
I found out yesterday my story, “In Between Dreams”, will be included in the Solaris Book of New Fantasy, which will appear in December 2007. It’s another of the stories I wrote while in Japan. It seems more of those will soon be appearing. I’m beginning to get excited for others to read them. I’ve Read more
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Books do come true…
One for Sorrow is available for pre-purchase at Amazon.com now. It is SO weird to have an entry to myself in an online bookstore. I bet it’ll be even weirder to see the actual book on a store bookshelf at the end of this summer when the book comes out. There is even a page Read more
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