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And in answer to the
perennial question, "do you really look like your author photo?": yes, if I'm on the roof of a Manhattan apartment
building with photographer Greg Martin. In
real life, I appear in color. |
Liam is the author of The Cloud Atlas (Delacorte, 2004; Dial, 2005) and All Saints (Delacorte, 2007; Dial, 2008). He chairs the English department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and previously coordinated their Ph.D. program in creative writing. He has regularly contributed to local and national public radio, and is possibly the only person now living (but consult your own Venn diagram) who has written for all of the following: the Wall Street Journal (on zeppelins, jetpacks, and touring Paris with children's books), The Awl, Commonweal, Esquire.com (on swimming and flying), Slate, the New York Times Book Review, the Times’ op-ed page, the Washington Post Magazine, Forbes FYI, Good Housekeeping, Parents, Milwaukee Magazine and a number of other publications in locations ranging from Canada to Brazil.
His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of literary
journals, including Gulf Coast, the New Haven Review, Tinge (where his story was named one of the Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2011 by storySouth), the Writers’
Chronicle, Blackbird, Crab
Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Caketrain,
failbetter and Phoebe.
Liam is also the creator and co-executive producer of the Poetry Everywhere
animated film series.
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