Author Description

Review "...Best Texas Writing manages to collect an amazing breadth of work together creating a very complex picture of Texas writers." --The Word: the Monthly Guide to the Arts in Dallas, November 1998 -- Publisher Comments Product Description Best Texas Writing is an anthology of contemporary literature produced by Texans or published in Texan literary journals, magazines, and newspapers. It contains distinguished work by poets, journalists, fiction writers, and essayists. Some authors--including Gerald Burns, Jack Myers, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pattiann Rogers, Dr. Frederick Turner, and Marion Winik--are nationally or internationally known. Others are Texas legends. The work selected was chosen after a long statewide search and is writing that would be remarkable anytime, anyplace, but that is particularly and vigorously Texan. About the Author Joe Ahearn's poetry, essays, and translations have been published in leading journals around the country. He is the founding editor of Rancho Loco Press and the editor of VEER magazine. His first book of poems, Folie, is forthcoming from Sulphur River Review Press. Ahearn lives in Dallas with his family. Brian Clements is the author of Essays Against Ruin (Texas Review Press) and Flesh and Wood (Mbira Press) and the founder of Firewheel Editions. He has taught writing and literature at State University of New York, University of North Texas, and University of Texas at Dallas. He lives in Garland, TX.