Unsaid v2.n1
David McLendon, Editor
Daniel Richardson, Designer
In memory of Joan Scott (1926-2005)
A Note Regarding the Cover: Mountain Meadow’s Mysteries or the Evening Redness in the West (Interchange #7), 2004, by Lane Twitchell Cut paper and acrylic polymers on plexi mounted to acrylic panel 72” x 72” (182.9 cm x 182.9 cm) Private collection, courtesy Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Contributors & Stories
was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1971. His stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and websites, including Open City, McSweeney's, The Sun, Fiction International, Pindeldyboz, Literal Latte ́and Other Voices. A frequent reader at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, Ames received a special mention in the 2003 Pushcart Prize Awards and in the 2004 Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the English department at Brooklyn College. In November, 2005, he completed his first novel.
Read: Family Album
’s The Body was published in 2002 by Slope Editions. It is currently being translated for publication in Iran. Her chapbook, of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon, is forthcoming in April from the Coconut Chapbook Series. She has a new manuscript, The Book of Beginnings & Endings & Other Such Things, and is putting finishing touches on a memoir. She has just completed coursework in the Ph.D. program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Born in Thailand and reared in Texas, she has studied at Hollins Univeristy and the University of Notre Dame.
Read: Kafka’s Garden
is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, and a Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. His play THOM PAIN(based on nothing) opened in New York in January 2005, at the DR 2 Theatre. It ran for 378 performances and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His work has been produced in London, Brazil, and New York. He is currently at Princeton University, as a Hodder Fellow. His plays are published by Oberon Books, in London, and by TCG, in the United States.
Read: One Winter, Unwritten
is the director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. He is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently The Wavering Knife, and has a new novel forthcoming from CoffeeHouse Press in 2006.
lives with her husband and two children in the gentle hills of Massachusetts. Her first collection of stories, The Spectacle of the Body, was published by Knopf. What Begins with Bird (stories) was brought out recently by Fiction Collective Two.
Read: Love’s Thousand Bees
is author of the novel L.I.E. (Random House, 2000), and has published fiction and nonfiction in Swink, The New York Times Magazine, The Black Warrior Review, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and to children in the New York public schools. David lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Margaret Hundley Parker.
Read: The Visitor
’s work has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Fourteen Hills, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Her chapbook In the Colorless Round, with artwork by Riki Ducornet, will appear next Spring from Noemi Press. She lives and teaches in Providence, Rhode Island.
Read: The Smell of Apples
has published two novels, The Way the Family Got Away (which has been translated into six languages) and How Much of Us There Was (Fourth Estate, 2005). He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including, mostly recently, Open City, Prairie Schooner, and Sleeping Fish. He lives in Baltimore with his wife.
lives in Maine. "June's Flowers" is from his work in progress, The Harvester.
Read: June’s Flowers
received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Utah, where he teaches Intellectual Traditions for the Honors Program.
Read: Parchment Coming soon! Until then, this piece is only available in the print version of our second issue.
is a recent Yale graduate who works at The Nation magazine. She is also a freelance writer, and has been published in The Nation and NY Arts Magazine. Emily lives in Brooklyn.
Read: A Closer Look at Lane Twitchell’s Mountain Meadow’s Mysteries or the Evening Redness in the West
teaches an experimental fiction workshop at The New School and lives with his wife, Heather. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in many print and online journals, including, BOMB, New Orleans Review, New England Review, Indiana Review, Confrontation, American Letters & Commentary, Failbetter, The Barcelona Review, elimae, Diagram, 5_Trope, Nerve, and elsewhere.
’s letters to the President have appeared in Fence, StoryQuarterly, Crowd, and other magazines. His writing has also been published in Harper's, The Paris Review, and the first issue of Unsaid.
is the author of The Singing Fish, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and Good, Brother.
is a library student in Boston. As a child, she traveled the globe in a bubble of her own creation and thought about stuff. Her fiction blog is http://nightvisionicebox.blogspot.com.
Read: Lattice
lives in Biddeford, Maine.
Read: The Moon a Low Dish
’s autobiographical playlet, a wry and heartfelt rejoinder to Michael Eric Dyson's Why I Love Black Women, entitled Why the Men Who Love Me Love Me Like I'm a Black Woman, is forthcoming next spring from the German imprint Augenblick.
Read: Ten Poems from Poems Anticipating Asimo Coming soon! Until then, these are only available in the print version of our second issue.
lives in Brooklyn. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Literary Review and The Minus Times.
Read: Kill ‘Em All
is the author of the short-story collection Father Must: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Open City, Epiphany, Grand Street, and the Village Voice. He is a recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award. He has taught at Columbia University and the Writer's Voice of the West Side Y. Rick holds a B.A. from Dalhousie University.
Read: Frederick
’s stories have appeared in many literary journals. "Wanderlust" is part of a collection about the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.
Read: Wanderlust
is completing the novel from which "Archipelago" is excerpted. He lives and rows in Providence, Rhode Island.
Read: Archipelago
’s books include Mewl House, Little War Machine, and Zimble, Zamble, Zumble.
Read: Eighteen Poems Coming soon!Until then, these are only available in the print version of our second issue.
is the author of A German Picturesque (Knopf). He directs the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University.
’s work can also be found in The Cowboy Issue. He lives in New York City.
Read: A Poem
lives and works in Brooklyn. She teaches English at the Academy of Urban Planning and pursues independent scholarship in the area of 20th Century English Literature. The paper published in this volume of Unsaid was presented at the 14th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference in London. It forms the basis for a longer article in progress, on the influence of fugue in Woolf's writing.
Read: Mrs. Dalloway and Fugue
was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He lives and works in Brooklyn.