John O'Brien is a well-known NEW YORKER cartoonist. For Clarion, he has illustrated DEAR OLD DONEGAL
Martin Riker grew up in Central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project (dorothyproject.com). His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, London Review of Books, The Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.
Irving MaIin is a member of the faculty of City College of New York.
Warren F. Motte, Jr. is chair of the Department of French and Italian at
the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he specializes in
contemporary writing and focuses particularly on experimental works that
challenge conventional notions of literary form. He has written several
studies of contemporary French Literature, including Fables of the
Novel: French Fiction Since 1990, available from Dalkey Archive Press.
Translator and editor of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature, he
also edited an issue of the journal SubStance dedicated to the work of
Jacques Jouet, and is a contributing editor to Context magazine.
