Before and Afterlives (41 page)

Christopher Barzak grew up in rural Ohio, went to university in a decaying post-industrial city in Ohio, and has lived in a Southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan. His stories have appeared in a many venues, includin
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Nerv
e
,
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horro
r
,
Interfiction
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,
Asimov’
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, an
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristle
t
. His first novel
,
One for Sorro
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, won the Crawford Award. His second book
,
The Love We Share Without Knowin
g
, is a novel-in-stories set in a magical realist modern Japan, and was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. He is the co-editor o
f
Interfictions
2
, and has done Japanese-English translation o
n
Kant: For Eternal Peac
e
, a peace theory book published in Japan for Japanese teens. He is also the author o
f
Birds and Birthday
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, a triptych of short stories inspired by surrealist painters. Currently he lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where he teaches fiction writing in the Northeast Ohio MFA program at Youngstown State University.