Rae Bryant

Books by Rae Bryant

The Indefinite State of Imaginary Mor...

by Rae Bryant

Patasola Press, 2011.

Gargoyle #57

by edited by Richard Peabody, and Lucinda Ebersole

Paycock Press, 2011.

Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collectio...

by Richard Peabody

Paycock Press, 2012.

Stripped

by Nicole Monaghan

lulu.com, 2011.

About Me

Rae Bryant is the author of the short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, 2011). Her stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in print and online at The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, McSweeney’s, Huffington Post, New World Writing, Gargoyle Magazine, and Redivider, among other publications. Her intermedia has exhibited in New York, DC, Baltimore and Florence, Italy. She has won prizes, fellowships and scholarships from Johns Hopkins, Aspen Writers Foundation, VCCA and Whidbey Writers and has been nominated for the Pen/Hemingway, Pen Emerging Writers, The &NOW and multiple times for Pushcart awards. Rae earned a Masters in Writing from Hopkins where she continues to teach creative writing. She is the founding editor of the The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She also teaches and lectures in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa and The Eckleburg Workshops. She is represented by Jennifer Carlson with Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency.

In the summer of 2013, This Is My Rape, an intermedia exploration of violence on women and Full Metal Jacket, exhibited at Governor’s Island in New York City as part of Writing on It All, a temporal intermedia collaboration directed by Alexandra Chasin. In 2011, Indeterminacy, a digital intermedia study of voice and rhythm exhibited at The California Institute in Washington, DC.

Rae is a voting member of National Book Critics Circle and a member of VIDA. She writes reviews for New York Journal of Books and Washington Independent Review of Books. Her 2013 review of George Saunder’s Tenth of December was chosen by Politics & Prose as a Pick of the Week. She has interviewed notable writers such as Cris Mazza and Rick Moody and she curates The Eckleburg Gallery as well as directing the Rue de Fleurus Salon & Reading Series (NY, DC, Baltimore, Cambridge and Chicago).

Rae attended the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, where she studied under Alice McDermott, as well as the Conference on Craft, where she was a fellow studying and teaching under the guidance of Jill McCorkle. She regularly attends and lectures at writing conferences both locally and nationally.

Why do you write?

If ever a writer could answer that question in a single succinct sentence, I will buy her or him a beer.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Denis Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Donald and Frederick Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel García Márquez, Margaret Atwood, Lydia Davis, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Pynchon, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, William Faulkner, Mary Gaitskill...