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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An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton
I wrote this entry at my old blog last weekend, when Hillary Clinton announced she’d be running for the Democratic nomination. Since then, I moved to this new website, but today a comment from my friend Jeff Ford over at the original post has spurred me to repost it here, too, and I think I’ll do as Read more
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Waiting for the Light
Last night I watched the President’s State of the Union address. It was interesting to see who clapped for various plans the President proposed, and who didn’t. One of the things I find most interesting about political players is the way they talk about their plans for the country. It’s very broad and general, and Read more
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Extreme Makeover: City Edition
Another article on Youngstown’s 2010 Plan and how it’s slowly but surely revitalizing the area, this time from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Don’t forget to watch the slideshow narrated by our Mayor, Jay Williams. Previous articles about Youngstown’s 2010 Project have appeared in the last year in The New York Times and USA Today as well. Read more
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And Now Read This…
If you missed it before in the mass of information we call the internet, make sure to read Yoshio Kobayashi’s essay on the new generation of Japanese SF writers. I myself wish American SF publishers would give us more international writers to read. I’m sure it’s probably based on statistics that Americans don’t like to Read more
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The Beginning Place
Like keeping a bound paper journal, the pages fill up, the spine breaks from all the opening and closing over the weeks, months, or years in some cases, and a new one must be opened. This is my new online journal for Meditations in an Emergency, and also will serve as my home on the Read more
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