Pale House Volume II gathers together a full spectrum of contemporary writers from all over the world, combining both established writers with new up-and-coming voices.
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Includes works by:
Louis Aragon (New Translations) Poet, novelist, and essayist, a founder of Surrealism with Paul Éluard, André Breton, and Luis Buñuel among others. Aragon's work reflects the principal trends of thought of the 20th century – he was also a political activist and spokesman for communism. His influence on the theory of the novel and on poetic theory has been considerable.
Jenna Blough received her M.F.A. in Critical Studies--Writing from California Institute of the Arts. Her fiction has appeared in literary publications including Trepan and Black Clock. She has just completed a short, fictional reference guide to heartbreak and historic dive bars in Los Angeles.
M. E. Carter is a writer currently working on a novel, Eating the Apple. She is a PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow for 2010. Her fiction has appeared in The Battered Suitcase. She is a frequent book reviewer for Three Percent, Foreword Magazine and Absinthe Minded. Ms. Carter also runs her own website dedicated to international literature, Salonica, and is launching her own literary journal, E.Lire. Her interview with Greek writer Amanda Michalopoulou is featured in the issue #22 of Dalkey Archive’s Context magazine. She works at Skylight Books, an independent bookstore in Los Angeles.
Dallas Clayton Hello, my name is Dallas Clayton. I'm a writer. I wrote a book. It's called An Awesome Book. It's a kid's book, but I guess in many ways it is also an adult's book. You know, one of those where adults can read it and say "I'm really just a kid inside." Adults love to say stuff like that. Adults are weird.
Billy Collins an American poet . He served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. In his home state, Collins has been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004. He was recently appointed Claire Berman Artist in Residence at The Roxbury Latin School, in West Roxbury, MA. He is a distinguished professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York.
Elliott David
Alexander Ebert singer/song writer of the group Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Fiora owns Ghettogloss, an art gallery in Hollywood.
Larry Fondation is the author of four books of fiction, all set in Los Angeles. His latest is a collection of stories called Unintended Consequences.
Jessica Garrison
Mercedes Helnwein is a writer, fine-artist and video artist, born in Vienna, Austria. She lives and work in Los Angeles and Ireland. In 2008 her debut novel "The Potential Hazards of Hester Day" was published by Simon & Schuster.
Harold Jaffe is the author of 16 books, including 10 fiction (or docufiction) collections, five novels and one volume of essays.
Morgan Krantz
Jillian Lauren memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, will be published by Plume on April 27, 2010. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Flaunt Magazine and Opium Magazine among others. She received her MFA from Antioch University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, musician Scott Shriner, and their son.
Eric Layer was a recent finalist for the Emerging Voices Fellowship at PEN Center. He writes stories, poems, plays, and films. His first short film, “The Second Death”, played in several prominent festivals. He co-founded a theatre company, Piece of Meat Theatre, which performed original work all around the west coast for many years. He has also written several plays, including “Living in Boxes”, which he is currently adapting into a novel. He has taught creative writing and music classes at the Barnsdall Art Center since 2006. His poem, “House of Mantra” previously appeared in Penny-Ante.
Abram Makowka was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an MFA graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He currently writes full time for both film and animated television. His screenplay, TUG, was produced in 2009.
Brian O'Keeffe
Lauren Osterstock is an artist, writer, and author of LalaBlahBlah.com; a delightful jaunt through the world often beginning in hearsay, trouncing through current affairs, ridiculous snippets and hopefully ending up nowhere close to where we began.
Brent Pearson
Andrew Pogany is an editor and writer born, raised, and living in Los Angeles, CA.
Jackson Wheeler is the author of two collections, Swimming Past Iceland (Mille Grazie Press, 1993) and A Near Country: Poems of Loss (Solo Press, 1999) with Glenna Luschei and David Oliveira. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals since 1972 including, Shenandoah, Rivendell, Cairn, Prarie Schooner, Nimrod, LA Review, Carolina Quarterly. Work in anthologies includes, In a Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare edited by David Starkey and Paul illis
(University of Iowa Press, 2004). His poem, "How Good Fortune Surprises Us" was selected by Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser for his American Life in Poetry series #144. Wheeler has hosted a poetry reading series in Ventura County since 1989 and works professionally as a social worker with individuals with developmental disabilities.
Bett Williams is the author of "Girl Walking Backwards" and "The Wrestling Party." She has been a regular contributor to OUT and Flaunt Magazine.
Rachel Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1987. She reads heavily into astrology and dream symbols. She is a graduate of USC.