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1 WELCOME TO DZANC BOOKS TABLE OF CONTENTS Shortly after opening our doors in 2006, Dzanc Books was hailed as “the future of publishing” by Publishers Weekly. A fully invested publishing house with print distribution through Consortium, and eBook distribution through Open Road Media, Dzanc Books is committed to not only publishing great Dzanc FRontlist Books...... 4 works, but promoting our authors through print and online media, author tours, and through audio/visual THE OLD REACTOR media. In our first few years, Dzanc authors have been reviewed everywhere both in print and online, a novel by david ohle OFFERINGS FROM A RUST BELT JOCKEY including the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Believer, Time Out New York, NewPages, Bookslut, a novel by andrew plattner Mid-American Review, American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Publishers Weekly, A DIFFERENT BED EVERY TIME stories by jac jemc Rain Taxi, Elle Magazine, Vanity Fair, and numerous others. With award-winning authors such as Josip BY LIGHT WE KNEW OUR NAMES Novakovich, Laura van den Berg, and Hesh Kestin, coupled with great emerging writers like Sean McGrady, stories by anne valente Eugene Cross, and Jac Jemc, Dzanc is excited to present the best and the brightest authors writing today. The Maggot People a novel by henning koch The Annotated Mixtape As of 2008, Dzanc has also formed imprint relationships with other established independent publishers. essays by joshua harmon

These publishers continue to run editorially as they did previously; however, they now have the publicity History of Cold Seasons stories by joshua harmon and distribution support of Dzanc Books. Heading into 2014, these publishers include OV Books, Keyhole Books, Starcherone Books, Ellipsis Press, and Disquiet. These relationships have led to extraordinary Come Away a novel by stephen policoff works by authors such as Allison Amend, Tod Goldberg, James Morrison, Stacey Levine, Joshua Cohen, and Alissa Nutting as well as a cutting-edge anthology of 30 Writers Under 30. The titles publishing under My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave poems by jeff kass the Disquiet imprint are works in translation or works written in English with a heavy foreign country Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson aspect to them. Between Dzanc and our imprints, we publish novels, short story collections, poetry essays by charles johnson collections, anthologies, works in translation, nonfiction, and chapbooks in both print and eBook form. If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home stories by dave housely Dzanc Books also supports three literary journals: The Collagist, an online monthly that Gun, Needle, Spoon contains fiction, poetry, essays, novel excerpts, and book reviews; and Monkeybicycle, an online journal a novel by patrick o’neil of both fiction and poetry that features podcasts. The Guild of St. Cooper a novel by shya scanlon

As a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books is also fully committed to developing like a woman writing programs in the schools and community at large. Dzanc funds and has operated workshops and a novel by Debra Busman Writer-in-Residence programs in several cities, including Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and New York. Dzanc The Zoo, a Going a novel j.a. tyler has also set up a low-cost writing instruction program for beginning and emerging writers by connecting them with accomplished authors through the innovative Dzanc Creative Writing Mentorships. Dzanc WAIT ’TIL YOU HAVE REAL PROBLEMS poems by scott beal has organized the Disquiet International Literary Program, a writing conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Dzanc creates internship opportunities for students looking to gain valuable experience in independent REcently Published...... 36 publishing. With a full vision for our future, both as publishers and as leaders in the community, Dzanc is excited about what we can do to continue bringing great books to wider audiences while inspiring The Reprint Series...... 40 generations of readers to come. The Writer-in-Residence Program...... 44

2 3 THE OLD REACTOR a novel by david ohle A strange and twisted tale of two imaginary cities of the future from the author of the cult classice motorman

Moldenke is sent to the “free” prison town at Altobello with an indeterminate sentence for defecating on a grave. It was an accident. He has a rare bowel condition. Altobello is full of Jellyheads and features an old nuclear reactor on the edge of town. No one seems to remember what the reactor really is until it’s almost too late.

David Ohle is the author of Motorman, The Age of Sinatra, and The Pisstown Chaos. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Missouri in Columbia, and currently teaches both fiction and screenwriting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

“No amount of description will prepare you for the icky, cavernous, taboo places in your mind to which he’ll lead you, hand in hand, Virgil to your Dante. You’ll rec- ognize some of these places, of course. The question is, how did he get in there?” — The Believer

“…awesomely carving deep, black holes into the edifice of the English language.” — Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

4 5 OFFERINGS FROM A RUST BELT JOCKEY a novel by andrew plattner a jockey experiences an unexpected crest in his career and decides to pursue a woman he might otherwise not have

Decades in the saddle have taught longtime jockey Carl Arvo about all the things he can have and all the things he cannot. An unexpected turn of fortune gives him the chance to be with a woman, Christine Fleming, who in some ways is the person he’s been looking for his entire life.

Andy Plattner is a longtime horse-racing journalist and has published two short story collections, one of which, Winter Money, won the Flannery O’Connor Award. His stories have been published in journals such as The Paris Review, Fiction, Epoch, and The Sewanee Review.

“There are grooms and trainers and bookmakers aplenty, but it’s the crazy woman who stuffs her house with other people’s garbage, the corrupt, know-it-all cop, and the pot-smoking floozy that provide the swing and verve.” —Boston Review

“Plattner’s stories prove again and again that you don’t have to be flashy to be good.” —Louisville Courier-Journal

6 7 A DIFFERENT BED EVERY TIME stories by jac jemc follow-up to the highly praised My Only Wife, a 2013 pen/bingham finalist

In Jac Jemc’s short stories, a woman lures men home, scouring them for answers. A man swallows perfume to forget and a thief steals even the air from the room. A band of pretty girls rot from the outside in and a petty charade amongst a pair of identical sisters turns into so much more. Both acute and lyric, A Different Bed Every Time peeks into fairy tales and domestic dramas and the locked-up minds of the disturbed for moments so brief you cannot look away.

Jac Jemc’s My Only Wife was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Jemc received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has completed residencies at Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Chicago.

“To Jemc the world is a place where each person, every human cypher, must devour another. What then can we do, if we are devoured, if we are overcome with our own devouring? Her escape plan is inspired and ancient—to become protean, to dwell in costume after costume, parceling away the truth that can be found in each. But where is it hid? Ask her, though she may not say.” —Jesse Ball, author of Silence Once Begun

8 9 BY LIGHT WE KNEW OUR NAMES stories by anne valente thirteen stories exploring the thin borders between wonder and loss and magic and grief

From midnight sirens to pink dolphins to a fight club of young women who meet beneath the aurora borealis, By Light We Knew Our Names examines the beauty and heartbreak of the world we live in, and the one that hovers just beyond it, enigmatic and out of reach. Across thirteen stories, this collection explores the thin border between wonder and loss, between magic and grief within the human experience.

Anne Valente’s fiction appears in Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, and Redivider, among others, and her essays appear in The Washington Post and The Believer.She is also the author of the fiction chapbook An Elegy for Mathematics (Origami Zoo Press, 2013). Winner of Copper Nickel's 2012 Fiction Prize, her work was listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading 2011. She received an MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University and currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“In these wonderful stories, Anne Valente shows again and again her talent for extracting the obsessions and anxieties and wonder of childhood, then extrapolat- ing them across the whole of a life.” —Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

10 11 The Maggot People a novel by henning koch A man inherits a house in the south of France, only to find himself embroiled in a sinister plot

In the south of France, a young man meets a woman and falls in love with her, despite her protestations that he will soon turn into “a maggot person”—a human skin stuffed with maggots and topped by a still-functioning brain. Michael begins experiencing severe pains, and the young woman’s prophecy begins to take hold.

Henning Koch was born in Sweden in 1962 but has spent most of his life in England, Spain, and Sardinia. He is a writer, screenwriter, and literary transla- tor. In 2011, Dzanc published Love Doesn’t Work, a short story collection. The Maggot People is his first published novel. He lives in Berlin with his partner and their two-year-old son.

Praise for Love Doesn’t Work: “This short collection of short stories from Dzanc Books was a pleasure to read. Surreal, a little lusty, with characters caught in the disillusionment of career artists, Henning Koch’s debut book Love Doesn’t Work evokes Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Kelly Link, or perhaps Haruki Murakami.” —Matt Pine

12 13 The Annotated Mixtape essays by joshua harmon An in-depth look at how record collecting has shaped—and continues to shape—the author’s life

“Most of the time,” Theodor Adorno has noted, “records are virtual photographs of their owners.” The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross- fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 Recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how the vinyl LP has shaped and informed the author’s life.

Joshua Harmon is the author of the essay collection The Annotated Mixtape, the novel Quinnehtukqut, the short story collection History of Cold Seasons, and the poetry collections Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie and Scape. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Praise for Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie: “[A] challenging blend of experimental prose and historical fiction...There is no shortage of bravura in Harmon’s prose.” —The Village Voice

Praise for Quinnehtukqut: “Joshua Harmon has written a wonderful first novel, austere and beautiful, daringly original, and deeply mysterious, like history itself.” —David Means

14 15 History of Cold Seasons stories by joshua harmon familial bonds are frayed as characters endure cold seasons both literal and metaphorical in these new england gothic stories

An old fisherman recites his “sea-sorrow”; two sisters search for their runaway brother and the girl they believe he keeps tied to a tree; a mother recounts her son’s rescue from a snowstorm. The landscape comes alive as these stories chart families broken apart and stitched back together over the course of harsh New England seasons.

Praise for Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie: “Harmon’s melancholy portrait of Poughkeepsie is starkly beautiful, a masterpiece in which landscape functions as an extension of the narration’s despair.” —The Rumpus

Praise for Quinnehtukqut: “Joshua Harmon has written a wonderful first novel, austere and beautiful, daringly original, and deeply mysterious, like history itself.” —David Means

16 17 C ome Away a novel by stephen policoff Following a fluke accident involving his five-year-old daughter, a father fears supernatural forces might be lurking in the shadows

Who is the small, greenish girl Paul Brickner repeatedly sees skittering around the edge of his yard in upstate New York? No one else seems to see her. Ever since Spring was injured in a fluke fall, Paul has been possessed with the anxiety that he might lose her—which may not be so far from the truth.

Stephen Policoff won the James Jones First Novel Prize for Beautiful Somewhere Else. His essays and stories have appeared in Family Fun, Provincetown Arts, The Rumpus, Otis Nebula, Wondertime, Review Americana, and many other publications. He is also the author of two YA books, The Dreamer’s Companion and Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens (co-authored with Jeffrey Skinner), and the children’s book Cesar’s Amazing Journey. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Yale and is currently Master Teacher of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU. He lives with his two daughters in Manhattan.

“Policoff shows a flair for pithy characterizations that serve to limn the zeitgeist… Policoff displays vivid descriptive skills and a low-key, subtle sense of humor.” —Booklist

“Filled with more gravitas and magic than Bridget Jones could fit in her day plan- ner.” —Salon.com

18 19 My Beautiful Hook- Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave poems by jeff kass poetry that shouts, snarls, laughs, and wants badly to believe we can all be better than we are now

It’s hard to be a teacher. Hard to be a father. Harder still to be a husband. So what can you do? How do you survive? You look for joy everywhere you can. You write poems about those moments to keep them alive in your breast. These poems represent hope for a better tomorrow.

Jeff Kass is the author of Knuckleheads, a finalist for Foreword Reviews Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011, and several chapbooks. He currently teaches Creative Writing and tenth-grade English at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, MI, directs the Literary Arts Program at Ann Arbor’s Teen Center, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Ann Arbor Book Festival. This is his first poetry collection.

“Knuckleheads is a high-octane protein shake, equal parts heartbreak and hilarity, a thing of both sweat-reeking adrenalin and nostalgic, time-stopping beauty. Kass achieves what all fiction writers want—he makes us believe and makes us care. Even those of us who stayed as far away from the jocks as possible will want to cheer.” —Steve Amick, author of The Lake, the River & the Other Lake

20 21 WAIT ’TIL YOU HAVE REAL PROBLEMS poems by scott beal Thematically linked poems that look at everything from fairytales to chicken soup.

Wait ’Til You Have Real Problems, the emotionally charged debut poetry collection from Scott Beal, tackles love and loss in a series of thematically linked pieces that will leave readers breathless. Beal finds inspiration in everything from myth to fairytale, from old photographs to the origin of chicken noodle soup—but always, ultimately, from the core of something unmistakably human.

Scott Beal’s poems have appeared in Poemeleon, The Collagist, and the museum of americana. He was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2013 and currently teaches at the University of Michigan. Beal serves as a writer-in-the-schools for Dzanc Books in Ann Arbor. He also teaches in the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan, from which he earned his MFA in 1996. He co-authored Jangle the Threads with Rachel McKibbens and Aracelis Girmay (Red Beard Books, 2010) and Underneath: The Archaeological Approach to Creative Writing with Jeff Kass (Red Beard Books, 2011). He currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

34 35 Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson essays by charles johnson A collection of thoughts and insights from one of America’s keenest observers and winner of the national book award

Throughout the course of 2011, Ethelbert Miller interviewed National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson about a wide range of topics, from Buddhism to race relations in America to his writing habits and everything in between. This collection contains Johnson’s responses and gives readers a candid look into the mind of one of the most celebrated voices in American literature.

Charles Johnson is a black American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen- and teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orienta- tion. Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Dreamer and Middle Passage. Middle Passage won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1990, making him the second black American male writer to receive this prize after Ralph Ellison in 1953. Johnson’s acceptance speech was a tribute to Ellison. Johnson received a MacArthur Fellowship or “Genius Grant” in 1998. He is also the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships.

22 23 If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home stories by dave housely an examination of the quiet desperation and occasional triumphs of growing up and growing older through the prism of music

A KISS cover-band leader pondering a fertility-driven criminal act, a boy watch- ing his hair-metal dad search for love on reality TV, a quiet teenage metalhead stumbling into her own voice while trailing her former roadie father—these are the characters seeking resolution, tempering expectations, and occasionally finding grace and the dignity and strength to go on.

Dave Housley is one of the founding editors and fiction editors at Barrelhouse Magazine, and one of the co-founders and organizers of the Conversations and Connections writers conference. He lives with his wife and son in State College, Pennsylvania, where he geeks out about web sites for Penn State.

“Housely’s book contains one of the ultimate pop culture smashups in recent literary history, combining figures such as the titular Ryan Seacrest, Jack Kerouac, Elvis, a frog princess, and a battalion of other pop freaks into a range of literary short stories that are as surprising in execution as they are in pure random energy.” —Bookslut

“Housely’s stories are almost all irresistibly funny.” —PopMatters

24 25 Gun, Needle, Spoon a novel by patrick o’neil lost in a world from which he sees no way out, a junky invisions his life and its inevitable end

This memoir follows a punk-rock pioneer on his slide into drug abuse and life as an armed robber, all the way through life in recovery and what it’s like to look back on those times, knowing all the while that the third strike might hit at any time, triggering a life behind bars.

Patrick O’Neil is the author of the memoir Hold Up, which was published in France. During punk rock’s heyday (1979–83) O’Neil worked at the legend- ary Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco’s premier punk venue. He then went on to become a roadie and eventually the road manager for Dead Kennedys and Flipper, as well as the Subhumans (UK) and T.S.O.L. (Los Angeles). But that was before his life got totally out of control. A heroin addict for eighteen years, incarcerated for two and a half years, he went to two long-term residential rehabs for a total of three years, worked as a substance-abuse counselor for six years, and has been clean for the last thirteen. He holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

“Patrick O’Neil recounts this long journey punctuated by lightning discharges of adrenaline. A nightmare-like creepy thriller: his life. Brutal!” —Rolling Stone

26 27 The Guild of St. Cooper a novel by shya scanlon In a dying city, a man rewrites history with dire and susprising con- esquences in the present.

An obscure author, drawn in by the mysterious Guild of St. Cooper, must rewrite the history of a dying city. But the changes become greater than those he set out to make, and the story quickly unspools backward into its own alternate history—a world populated by giant rhododendrons, space aliens, and TV’s own Special Agent Dale Cooper.

Shya Scanlon is the author of the novels Border Run and Forecast, and the poetry collection In This Alone Impulse. An editor at The Nervous Breakdown and co- founder of Monkeybicycle, he won the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction at Brown University, where he received his MFA. He lives in New York.

“Like a Philip K. Dick of the American Southwest, or a futuristic Cormac McCar- thy.” — Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

“Strikes a flawless balance between satire and heart, adventure and meditation.” — Laura Van Den Berg, author of The Isle of Youthand What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

28 29 like a woman a novel by Debra Busman two girls come of age on the mean streets of LA against a backdrop of racism, poverty, and violence

Reminiscent of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busman’s like a woman is a vivid coming-of-age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their self-defined sense of ethics and humanity against a backdrop of racism, poverty, sexism, and violence.

Following Taylor, a working-class white girl too tough and too tender for her own good, who helps friends, rescues strays, and carries her battered copy of Ghandi on Non-Violence everywhere she goes. She reads curled up in the sewer drain by Venice Beach under the shot-out flashing Chevron light, yet still fights at the drop of a dime, cuts johns who say the wrong thing, and steals anything she can get her hands on. Her girlfriend, Jackson, a young African-American street worker who lives in the back of a junkyard totaled limo, dreams of becoming a writer and receives daily guidance from her recently deceased mama.

Debra Busman is a fiction/creative nonfiction writer and co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU Monterey Bay. She is also co-editor of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing.

30 31 the Zoo, a Going a novel by j.a. tyler A family visit to the zoo becomes a complex discussion of father- son relationships, coming of age, life, and death

As they travel from cage to bars to glass over all the fake landscapes of the zoo, Jonah wonders about his mom and dad, what they’ve done and haven’t for him, and what he has and hasn’t done in return. He realizes, as he goes, the complexi- ties of growing up.

J. A. Tyler’s work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diagram, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, New York Tyrant, and others. An author of several earlier books of poetic hybrid, this is his first novel. He lives and teaches high school in Colorado.

“J. A. Tyler has a fantastically tragic story on his hands, not only because of his ability to maintain conflict throughout each passage but also because of his impeccable attention to detail. His ability to wordsmith is incomparable, not only in form and function but in style and flow. He harbors an elaborate writing style all his own, and leaves his essence in every line.” —The Nervous Breakdown

32 33 WAIT ’TIL YOU HAVE REAL PROBLEMS poems by scott beal Thematically linked poems that look at everything from fairytales to chicken soup.

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40 41 14 Stories - Stephen Dixon Gut Feelings - Merrill Joan Gerber On the Night Plain - J. Robert Lennon Time to Go - Stephen Dixon Glimmering Girls - Merrill Joan Gerber Happyland - J. Robert Lennon All Gone - Stephen Dixon In the Land of Dreamy Dreams - Ellen Gilchrist Grim Tales - Norm Lock Long Made Short - Stephen Dixon Victory Over Japan - Ellen Gilchrist Make Me Work - Ralph Lombreglia Man on Stage - Stephen Dixon Drunk with Love - Ellen Gilchrist Men Under Water - Ralph Lombreglia Gould - Stephen Dixon The Anna Papers - Ellen Gilchrist Year of Fire: Stories - David Lynn 30 - Stephen Dixon Net of Jewels - Ellen Gilchrist Wrestling with Gabriel - David Lynn I - Stephen Dixon Light Can be Both Wave and Particle - Ellen Gilchrist Alive and Dead in Indiana - Michael Martone End of I - Stephen Dixon Starcarbon - Ellen Gilchrist Safety Patrol - Michael Martone Talking Heads: 77 - John Domini The Age of Miracles - Ellen Gilchrist Seeing Eye - Michael Martone Bedlam - John Domini The Annunciation - Ellen Gilchrist Winter of Different Directions - Steven J. McDermott Highway Trade - John Domini The Cabal and Other Stories - Ellen Gilchrist Ancient History - Joseph McElroy Earthquake I.D. - John Domini Falling Through Space - Ellen Gilchrist Exponential - Joseph McElroy For Her Dark Skin - Percival Everett Walter Falls - Steven Gillis Hind’s Kidnap - Joseph McElroy God’s Country - Percival Everett The Weight of Nothing - Steven Gillis Plus - Joseph McElroy Grand Canyon, Inc. - Percival Everett Giraffes and Other Stories - Steven Gillis Preparations for Search - Joseph McElroy The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair - A World of Strangers - Nadine Gordimer The Letter Left to Me - Joseph McElroy Percival Everett The Lying Days - Nadine Gordimer Women and Men - Joseph McElroy Suder - Percival Everett The Late Bourgeois World - Nadine Gordimer Under the Light - Sam Michel Walk Me to the Distance - Percival Everett A Sport of Nature - Nadine Gordimer Out of Work - Greg Mulcahy Cutting Lisa - Percival Everett A Guest of Honor - Nadine Gordimer Malcolm & Jack - Ted Pelton The Body of Martin Aguilera - Percival Everett Occasion for Loving - Nadine Gordimer By the Light of the Jukebox - Dean Paschal When All Our Days Are Numbered - Sasha Spikes: A Novel - Michael Griffith In the Year of Long Division - Dawn Raffel Fletcher The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing - Michael Where the Glories of April Lead - Charles Rafferty My Sister’s Continent - Gina Frangello Hickins During the Beauty Shortage - Charles Rafferty Fruit of the Month - Abby Frucht The Spectacle of the Body - Noy Holland These People are Us - George Singleton Snap - Abby Frucht What begins with bird - Noy Holland The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail - Greg Sheryl Life Before Death - Abby Frucht Women I’ve Known: Stories - Greg Johnson Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall - Ken Sparling Licorice - Abby Frucht Pagan Babies - Greg Johnson Harry Kaplan’s Adventures Underground - Steve Stern Are You Mine? - Abby Frucht Sticky Kisses - Greg Johnson The Hieroglyphics - Michael Stewart We Take Me Apart - Molly Gaudry The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti - Stephen Graham I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur - Matias Svlavina An Antique Man - Merrill Joan Gerber Jones Cookie Lily - Mary Troy Now Molly Knows - Merrill Joan Gerber All the Beautiful Sinners - Stephen Graham Jones A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed -J.A. Tyler The Lady with the Moving Parts - Merrill Joan Seven Spanish Angels - Stephen Graham Jones Inconceivable Wilson - J.A. Tyler Gerber First There Is a Mountain - Elizabeth Kadetsky O Fallen Angel - Kate Zambreno King of the World - Merrill Joan Gerber Oedipus Wrecked - Kevin Keck A Cold Spring - Edra Ziesk Stop Here My Friend - Merrill Joan Gerber Nietzsche’s Horse - Christopher Kennedy Acceptable Losses - Edra Ziesk Honeymoon - Merrill Joan Gerber Trouble with the Machine - Christopher Kennedy Chattering Man: Stories and a Novella - Merrill Still Life With Insects - Brian Kiteley Joan Gerber How the Days of Love & Diptheria - Robert Kloss This Old Heart of Mine - Merrill Joan Gerber The Alligators of Abraham - Robert Kloss This is a Voice from Your Past - Merrill Joan The Iguana Complex - Darby Larson Gerber The Funnies - J. Robert Lennon Old Mother, Little Kitten - Merrill Joan Gerber Light of Falling Stars - J. Robert Lennon

42 43 THE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM Participating Schools and Authors

2013-2014 Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School Since 2006, the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program has been committed to increasing literacy (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal in public school students in Michigan and beyond. During each school year, Dzanc places a professional author with an individual school or classroom, allowing them to return each week to 2012-2013 build a relationship with students and develop their potential as fiction writers and poets. Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School In each of the past several years, we have collectively tutored over one hundred students (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal across several different schools. At the conclusion of each program, we publish a hard-copy anthology of the participating students’ work, distributing a compli- 2011-2012 mentary edition of this book to every school library in the target school districts, Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School as well as providing each student participating in the program with a copy. (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal Ann Arbor Community School (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeff Kass As the only program of its kind in Michigan that does not charge students or schools, the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program offers a unique relationship for students to work directly 2010 - 2011 with professional writers, extending a one-of-a-kind opportunity for the young Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School writers of tomorrow. (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal

The chance for these students to improve their writing skills enhances not only their creative 2009 - 2010 talents but their overall communication skills in all arenas. It is our firm belief that continuing to The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal develop and expand these relationships with the students and the schools is a key component in Thurston Elementary School (Ann Arbor, MI): Matt Bell developing great literary and writing programs. 2008 - 2009 Community High School (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeff Kass Thurston Elementary School (Ann Arbor, MI): Matt Bell High School of Telecommunication and Technology (Brooklyn, NY): Diane Goettel

2007 - 2008 The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal High School of Telecommunication and Technology (Brooklyn, NY): Diane Goettel Ypsilanti High School (Ypsilanti, MI): Barry Graham

2006-2007 Community High School (Ann Arbor, MI): Paul Toth

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