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Craig Clevenger

Biography

Craig Clevenger was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Southern California. After years of dead-end jobs and publishers’ rejections, he stumbled into the pre-dot.com tech world where he spent the next decade paying his rent on time, eating regularly and not putting pen to paper for anything creative. In 2000, he pulled the plug on his part of the techno-rat race in order to resume writing. He is the author of two novels, The Contortionist’s Handbook and Dermaphoria, and his work has been published in over twelve languages. Craig Clevenger now lives in San Francisco, California, where he tends bar and is working on his third novel.

 

Upcoming Works

  • Saint Heretic

Favorite Authors

  • Jim Thompson; James M. Cain; Italo Calvino; Seth Morgan; John O'Brien; Mark Z. Danielewski; Will Christopher Baer; Stephen Graham Jones; Michael Ventura; James Ellroy; Steve Erickson;

Causes I Support

  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation Needle Exchange World Parrot Trust

Agents

  • Jeff Aghassi (film rights)

Contact Agents

  • (310) 838-1471

Publishers

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