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Welcome to The Houston Literary Review January 2008 Fiction Issue
THLR is proud to offer our readers the toe-tapping cadences and images of the writers featured in this issue. We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we did bringing them to you (click on the links below to read our authors' fiction).
artwork by Jeff Crouch
David Backer  David Backer is a literature and philosophy teacher at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, DC. His fiction has appeared in Wooden Teeth and Johnny America, and has a short-short forthcoming in the Aggregated Press. He likes to play banjo and djembe and is working on a novel. This short story is part of a larger project called Very Short Stories Based on GRE Words (grewordstories.blogspot.com). He may or may not go to graduate school in philosophy someday.
Jeannie Galeazzi  Jeannie Galeazzi's work has appeared in Fence, The Literary Review, Other Voices, Permafrost, Southern Humanities Review, Night Train (pen name in byline), Folio, Writers' Forum, Confrontation, The Portland Review, and Main Street Rag, among other magazines, with a story forthcoming in The Distillery.
Daniel A. Olivas  Daniel A. Olivas is the author of five books: Anywhere But L.A.: Stories (Bilingual Press, forthcoming 2008); Devil Talk: Stories (Bilingual Press, 2004), Assumption and Other Stories (Bilingual Press, 2003), The Courtship of María Rivera Peña (Silver Lake Publishing, 2000), and a bilingual children’s book, Benjamin and the Word / Benjamin y la palabra (Arte Público Press, 2005).
He is the editor of Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature, forthcoming from Bilingual Press in late 2007. Olivas is also a book critic for the El Paso Times and MultiCultural Review. His writing has been widely anthologized and appears in many print and online publications including the Los Angeles Times, The Jewish Journal, THEMA, The MacGuffin, Exquisite Corpse and The Pacific Review. He shares blogging duties on La Bloga (http://labloga.blogspot.com) which is dedicated to Chicano/Latino literature. Olivas received his BA in English literature from Stanford University and law degree from UCLA. He is an attorney with the California Department of Justice where he specializes in land use and environmental enforcement. http://www.danielolivas.com.
Clarise Samuels  Clarise Samuels publishes poems, translations, articles and book reviews. Her poetry chapbook, Fairy Tales for the Bourgeoisie, was published in 2007 by Pudding House Publications in Ohio. Samuels' first novel, Loving Brynhild, a metaphysical novel based on Norse mythology, was accepted by Heliand Publishing, an independent start-up publisher in Utah, scheduled for publication in 2008. Samuels is also the author of a scholarly tome entitled, Holocaust Visions: Surrealism and Existentialism in the Poetry of Paul Celan (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993).
Samuels is originally from New Jersey but now lives in Canada. She has published poetry in a number of literary journals, such The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Orphic Review. Samuels has a Rutgers PhD in German literature.
Shalla DeGuzman  Shalla DeGuzman’s short stories have appeared in Poetic Diversity, the Mosaic Literary Journal, WordRiot, and the Mad Hatters Review; her articles in The Scriptorium and L.A. Freepress; her skits at the Stella Adler Theatre.
Shalla, a former writer and producer of a health and fitness cable show, is currently writing a novel. She is President of The ShallaDeGuzman Writers Group where she interviews literary agents, publishers, editors, and veteran writers. This is Shalla's second appearance in THLR.
For more on Shalla: www.shalladeguzman.com
fiction by shall deguzman
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