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David R. Memmott David Memmott -- poetry, fiction & nonfiction

David R. Memmott

Biography

David Memmott has published five books of poetry, a novel and a story collection. Recent work has been published by Strange Horizons, High Desert Journal, Windfall and in the anthologies, Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon, Salt: An Oregon Coastal Poetry Anthology, Writers on the Job: Tales of the Non-Writing Life and The Alchemy of Stars: An Anthology of Rhysling Award Winners. He has an interview as well as a review of his postcyberpunk novel, Primetime, in the on-line arts magazine, Perigee, #20 (May 2008)  http://www.perigee-arts.com/  Paul Di Filippo, in his review for Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, wrote that Primetime is "philosophic sf at its best." Memmott is a Fishtrap Fellow and has received three Oregon Literary Fellowships from Literary Arts, Inc. in publishing, most recently in 2006. His newest book is the poetry collection, Giving It Away. Along with Erik Muller, he organized the East/West Poet Gatherings in Madras (2004) and La Grande (2006). He is the editor and publisher of Wordcraft of Oregon http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/. He has been working on his own digital art for the last few years and samples of his art can be found at: www.wordcraftoforegon.com/shapeshifter/.

Upcoming Works

  • For some years now I've been working on something of a magic realist novel with two narrative lines in two different times 1) preceding the Vietnam War in 1962 set in Astoria, Oregon, and 2) revolving around a group of Vietnam veterans in 1968 in Boise, Idaho. The novel is entitled CANNED TUNA. It should be complete by the end of 2009.

Favorite Authors

  • Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Tim O'Brien, Duff Brenna, Thomas E. Kennedy, Misha Nogha, Brian Evenson, Lance Olsen, Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Richard Hugo, George Venn, Philip K. Dick

Relationship

  • Married to Susan Hoyt Memmott

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