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David Bowen

David BowenDAVID BOWEN co-founded New American Press and MAYDAY Magazine. His work has appeared in The Literary Review, Colorado Review, Flyway, Great Lakes Review, Printer’s Devil Review, Serving House Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Contributor Bios for Issue 12 Winter 2018

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Issue 12 Winter 2018 RUTH AWAD is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection, Set to Music a Wildfire, won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Sixth […]

Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen: Power & Light

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Eric Shonkwiler is the author of two novels and a collection of stories and novellas. The stories in his collection, Moon Up, Past Full (Alternating Current Press, 2015), won a series of honors, including the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, shortlists for the Queen’s Ferry Press Best Small Fictions Prize and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018

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INTERVIEWS Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen Power & Light Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout Invisible on Paper ESSAYS Leonard Kress What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah? Erinn Seifert Changing FICTION Mollie Boutell Intimates Malcolm Cumming Mere Anarchy Liz Egan Sgt. Lawson Brian Kamsoke Useful Things POETRY Ruth […]

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M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen: A Dragon in the Hollow

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David Bowen:  Your novel, Challenger, is centered on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, named by the 9/11 Commission Report as “the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks.” Why this story? What drew you to approach this novel from his perspective? M. C. Armstrong:  I think the novelist needs to find that thin line between “sympathy for the devil” […]

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Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013

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Issue 7 Winter 2013 DAVID ABRAMS is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic), a New York Times Notable Book for 2012. It was also selected as both an Indie Next pick and for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, Electric, Literature, Salamander, Connecticut Review, Five Chapters, […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 7 Fall 2013

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FEATURED ARTIST Glenn Brady It’s All Feel, My Dear INTERVIEWS M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen A Dragon in the Hollow Kelly Davio interviewed by Michael Schmeltzer Feeding One Another Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott A Multiplicity of Visions George Saunders […]

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Dan Venne interviewed by David Bowen: AFTER COUGAR’S LAW an interview with Cougar’s epic-emergency post-rock guitarist

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The jamchild of guitarists Dan Venne and Trent Johnson, drummer David Skogen, bass player Todd Hill, and electronicist Aaron Slater, Cougar crawled out of a cold Madison, Wisconsin, basement in 2003. The band’s epic-emergency post-rock stylings have since traveled across the country and overseas. In 2007, they toured the US and Europe with their debut […]

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Contributor Bios for Issue 2 Winter 2010

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Issue 2 Winter 2010 TAO AIMIN is known for her anthropological works made from the washboards of rural woman. Over the years she has collected thousands of these boards, recording the stories and faces of the women whose hands wore these boards down through the recursive repetition of monotonous labor. Creating installations and experimental ink […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 2 Winter 2010

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ART curated by Maya Kóvskaya PRACTICES, POWER & THE PUBLIC SPHERE: Dialogical Space & Multiple Modernities in Asian Contemporary Art ART NONFICTION Maya Kóvskaya Public Action Art and Performative Interventions in the Chinese Public Sphere ART NONFICTION William Hurst (performance photography by Han Bing) ORPHANS OF PROGRESS: Workers and Political Discourse in Post-Socialist China ART […]

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