Okla Elliott

OKLA ELLIOTT is an assistant professor at Misericordia University. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Illinois and an MFA in creative writing from Ohio State University. His nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, A Public Space, and Subtropics, among others. His books include From the Crooked Timber (short fiction), The Cartographer’s Ink (poetry), and The Doors You Mark Are Your Own (a novel co-authored with Raul Clement). His book of translation, Blackbirds in September: Selected Shorter Poems of Jürgen Becker, published in late 2015.

Contributor Bios for Issue 9 Summer 2015

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Alex Cigale, Amanda Sarasien, Anna Leahy, Arne Weingart, Artur Azevedo, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Circe Maia, Dariel Suarez, David Armstrong, David Kirby, Elizabeth Switaj, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Henryk Cierniak, Irene Turner, Jacob M. Appel, James Capozzi, Jesse Lee Kercheval, John Guzlowski, Kelly McQuain, Laurie Blauner, Marc Frazier, Mary Langer Thompson, Matthew Pitt, Okla Elliott, Paul Adler, Peter Burzynski, Richard Cecil, Samuel R. Delany, Vincent Czyz, Vladimir Mayakovsky

Issue 9 Summer 2015 PAUL ADLER received his MFA from Columbia University, where Matthew Zapruder selected his thesis manuscript as winner of the 2012 David Craig Austin Prize. Paul currently works as the Assistant Editor of Westchester Magazine. JACOB M. APPEL is the author of the novels The Biology of Luck and The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up. His fourth collection […]

Garnett Kilberg Cohen Interviewed by Okla Elliott: Freshness, Craft, and Time

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Okla Elliott

Okla Elliott: In the title story of your collection Swarm to Glory, a Jewish girl is placed in a Christian foster home, and the theme of religious affiliation and stereotypes emerge several times. What caused you to choose the situation of foster care as the backdrop for investigating Christian/Jewish relations and stereotypes? Garnett Kilberg Cohen: That story began […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

NONFICTION David Kirby Photos by Barbara Hamby Cows and Wows: Why India Works Depite Itself and What We Can Learn from Its Example INTERVIEW Garnett Kilberg Cohen Interviewed by Okla Elliott Freshness, Craft, and Time FICTION Jacob M. Appel Gable’s Whiskers David Armstrong Gracile Laurie Blauner The Solace of Monsters Garnett Kilberg Cohen Bad […]

Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

Issue 8 Summer 2014 HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS received the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has also been accorded a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has most recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Oxford American, Waccamaw, and Southern […]

Special Nonfiction Issue
by Paul Crenshaw and Okla Elliott

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw

When we decided to co-edit an issue of MAYDAY Magazine dedicated to nonfiction, we knew we wanted to see as wide a range as possible. We were particularly interested in work that pushes or blurs the boundaries of what we commonly think of as nonfiction: scholarly articles that contain an element of the travel essay or memoir, […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

EDITORS‘ INTRODUCTION Paul Crenshaw & Okla Elliott Special Nonfiction Issue FEATURED ARTICLE David Kirby photos by Barbara Hamby Who Made That Wooden Horse, and What’s It Doing on Our Beach? What Greece Needs Now ESSAYS Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams Letter to Laurena Amy Gigi Alexander From Lost to Loved in Bihar Robert Cowan Close Call […]

R. Clifton Spargo interviewed by Okla Elliott: The Lost Chapter

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Okla Elliott, R. Clifton Spargo

Okla Elliott: You chose the end of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald’s relationship as the focus of your novel. What drew you to that particular portion of their lives? And, more broadly speaking, what drew you to that particular literary couple as opposed to, say, Vivian and T.S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, etc.? R. […]

Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott: A Multiplicity of Visions

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Okla Elliott, Stephen Kuusisto

Stephen Kuusisto is the author of Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and the memoir Planet of the Blind, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has also published the poetry collections Only Bread, Only Light and Letters to Borges, both out from Copper Canyon Press. Recognized by the New York Times as “a powerful writer with a musical ear for […]

Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott: Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Andrew Hudgins, Okla Elliott

Andrew Hudgins is the author of The Joker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010), Shut Up, You’re Fine: Poems for Very, Very Bad Children (Overlook Press 2009), Ecstatic in the Poison (Sewanee/Overlook Press 2003), Babylon in a Jar (Houghton Mifflin 1998), The Glass Anvil (University of Michigan 1997), Saints and Strangers, After The Lost War: A Narrative, The Never-Ending: New […]

Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Agnar Artúvertin, Alexis M. Smith, Alice B. Fogel, Amado Nervo, Andrew Hudgins, Anne Barngrover, Änne Troester, Avni Vyas, Brigit Kelly Young, Calvin Haul, Catherine Nelson, Christopher Merkner, David Abrams, David Bowen, Ethan Madarieta, Feliks Netz, George Moore, George Saunders, Glenn Brady, Irene Jiménez, Ivan Young, J. R. Longfellow, Jacob M. Appel, Janusz Zalewski, Jay Shearer, Jennifer Spiegel, Jeremy Britton, John Guzlowski, Jon Thompson, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Katharine L. Wiegele, Katy E. Ellis, Kelly Davio, Kyle Muntz, Lee Upton, M. C. Armstrong, Marius Lehene, Matthew Cooperman, Matthew Landrum, Michael Czyniejewski, Michael Schmeltzer, Octavio Quintanilla, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, R. Clifton Spargo, Raul Clement, Richard Thomas, Rimas Uzgiris, Stephen Kuusisto, Steve Davenport, Terrance Gutberlet, Theodore Worozbyt, Valentin Dishev

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, […]

Okla Elliott

Contributor Bios for Issue 9 Summer 2015

Garnett Kilberg Cohen Interviewed by Okla Elliott: Freshness, Craft, and Time

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

Special Nonfiction Issue
by Paul Crenshaw and Okla Elliott

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

R. Clifton Spargo interviewed by Okla Elliott: The Lost Chapter

Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott: A Multiplicity of Visions

Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott: Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter

Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013

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