Alan
DeNiro was born in Erie, PA. He
received a BA in English (College of Wooster) and an MFA in
poetry (University of Virginia). His fiction has appeared in
Crowd, One Story, Minnesota Monthly, Fence, 3rd Bed, Polyphony,
and has been shortlisted for the O. Henry award.
Alan has: taught writing
at the University of Richmond and the Loft in Minneapolis; reviewed
regularly for Rain Taxi;
written two text-based computer games, The
Isolato Incident and Ogres
(how
to); founded Taverner's
Koans, a poetry journal and resources website; published
poetry in Willow Springs, Cimarron Review, Can We Have Our
Ball Back, as well as two poetry chapbooks, The
Black Hare, (A Small Garlic Press, 1998) and The
Atari Ecologues; and co-founded the Rabid
Transit series of fiction anthologies.
He is currently working
on a novel, tentatively entitled Total Oblivion, More or
Less .
He is a proofreader at Fallon
Minneapolis, an advertising agency, and lives outside St. Paul,
Minnesota with his wife, Kristin, and three cats.
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