David Memmott

Fiction Writer, Poet

Author's Bio

David Memmott has published six books of poetry, a novel and a story collection. The Larger Earth was selected as one of 150 best poetry books for 150 years of Oregon statehood by Poetry Northwest and Oregon State Library. He recently finished a Vietnam-Era novel, Canned Tuna. He serves as the managing editor of Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism and helps organize the Eastern Oregon Word Round-Up and the Roundhouse Reading Series. He lives in La Grande, Oregon.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Primetime (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007)
,
Shadow Bones (Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999)
Journals:
Airfish
,
Interzone
,
Magazine of Speculative Poetry
,
The Temple
,
World Wide Writers

Poetry

Anthologies:
Deer Drink the Moon:: Poems of Oregon (Ooligan Press, 2007)
,
Nebula Awards 27 (Harcourt Brace, 1993)
,
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martins Press, 1991)
Books:
Lost Transmissions (Serving House Books, 2012)
,
Giving It Away (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2009)
,
The Larger Earth (Permeable Press, 1996)
Chapbooks:
Watermarked (Traprock Books, 2004)
,
Within the Walls of Jericho (26 Books Press, 1998)
Journals:
Basalt
,
Elohi Gadugi Journal
,
Gargoyle Magazine
Prizes won: 

Rhysling Award winner, 1990; Fishtrap Fellow, 2010 Spur Award finalist, Playa Residency, three-time recipient of Literary Arts Publishing Fellowship, 2014 finalist for Eric Hoffer Award for poetry.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Drop-Edge of Yonder by Rudolph Wurlitzer, Theories of Forgetting by Lance Olsen

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Grand Rapids
Raised in: 
Pacific Northwest, ID
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Last update: Dec 05, 2014