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Alan DeNiro author Minneapolis, MN |
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Alan DeNiro was born in Erie, PA. He received a BA in English (College of Wooster) and an MFA in poetry (University of Virginia). His
fiction has appeared in Crowd, One Story, Minnesota Monthly, Fence, 3rd Bed, Polyphony,and
Strange Horizons, and has been shortlisted for the O. Henry award.
His debut short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, is forthcoming from Small Beer Press in July 2006. The collection has been long–listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Alan has taught writing at the University of Richmond and the Loft in Minneapolis; reviewed regularly for Rain Taxi; written two text–based computer games; founded Taverner's Koans, a poetry journal and resources website; published poetry in Willow Springs, Cimarron Review, Can We Have Our Ball Back, as well as two poetry chapbooks, The Black Hare, (A Small Garlic Press, 1998) and The Atari Ecologues; and co–founded the Rabid Transit series of fiction anthologies. He recently completed a novel, Total Oblivion, More or Less. He is a proofreader at Fallon Minneapolis, an advertising agency, and lives outside St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife, Kristin Livdahl, a puppy, and three cats. |