Dennis Weiser

Poet, novelist and philosopher, Dennis Weiser is a former editorial page columnist at The Kansas City Business Journal and book reviewer for NPR affiliate KCUR-FM in Kansas City, Missouri. Dennis has published articles, poetry and fiction in Chouteau Review, Thorny Locust, Abramelin, New Letters and p.r.n., as well as several anthologies from Outrider Press. “Excellence”, his parable of genocidal race hatred, was the featured “Original Fiction” in The Illuminata, Bret Funk, Editor, Vol 2:Issue 8 (Tyrannosaurus Press), pp. 9-15. An excerpt from his novel, Crash Dummies, won first prize for prose fiction at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago and was published in Things That Go Bump in the Night (Outrider Press 2004). Dennis has read at Barnes &amp; Noble, Borders, Prospero’s Books, The Way Out Club and Venice Café. He is a member of the online directory of poets at Poets &amp; Writers (<a href="http://www.pw.org" class="linkification-ext" title="Linkification: http://www.pw.org">www.pw.org</a>). His biography is included in Marquis Who’s Who in America (2007) and Who’s Who in the World (2008). His most recent publication, “Hidden Song”, appears in The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City: Topo/Graphis Press 2007). Dennis holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Westminster College and an M.A. in Philosophy from The University of Kansas. Currently a member of The Writers Place, Dennis is finishing a screen adaptation of Crash Dummies and writing his third novel, a historical thriller set against the tumultuous backdrop of Dutch colonialism in 1879 Java.