About the Screenwriter

Tom Whalen

http://www.tomwhalen.com

Tom Whalen's books include Winter Coat (Red Dust, 1998), A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (with Daniel Quinn, Bantam Books, 1997), Roithamer's Universe (Portals Press, 1996), The Camel's Back (with Michael Presti, Portals Press, 1993), Elongated Figures (Red Dust, 1991), and The Eustachia Stories (Velocities Press, 1986).

His short stories are anthologized in Sudden Fiction; That's What I Like About the South: New Southern Stories for the Nineties; Elvis in Oz; A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose; Mondo Marilyn; The Book of Eros; Brief Encounters; The Student Body; Alice Redux and elsewhere.

Whalen's prose poems have been anthologized in The Great American Prose Poem: From Poe to the Present; The Anatomy of Water : A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry; The Best of the Prose Poem; The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry.

He has published short stories in AGNI, American -Letters & Commentary, Chicago Review, Fiction International, Florida Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, The Idaho Review, The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Natural Bridge, The Nebraska Review, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, Red Rock Review, The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, The Styles, Witness, and other journals.

Tom Whalen's criticism (on Herman Melville, Lewis Carroll, Henry James, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, Wallace Stevens, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, George Garrett, Stephen Becker, Buster Keaton, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Wim Wenders, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Tom Tykwer, John Carpenter), poetry, personal essays, and collaborative translations have appeared in Bookforum, Chelsea, Connecticut Review, Critique, Essays in Literature, Film Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Hollins Critic, Literature/Film Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Missouri Review, The Paris Review, The Seattle Review, The Southern Review, Studies in Short Fiction, The Wallace Stevens Journal.

Collaborative translations of stories by Robert Walser in Selected Stories (New York Review Books) and Masquerade and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Tom Whalen is the co-editor of the Robert Walser Number of The Review of Contemporary Fiction.

He is the recipient of The Texas Review Press Novella Prize (1996), The Missouri Review Editors' Prize in the Essay (1993), Louisiana Arts Fellowship in Literature (1985), Pro Helvetia Fellowships (1990, 1992). Visiting Professor in North American Studies, Freiburg University, Germany (2005-06), Visiting Professor in film and poetry, Salisbury State University (Spring 2000), Visiting Writer in Residence, Tulane University (Fall 1999), Visiting Professor in American literature and film, Stuttgart University, Germany (1993-94, 1995-97), Lecturer in Creative Writing, Loyola University (1990-92), Director of the Creative Writing Program, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (1977-99), Visiting Lecturer in English, McNeese State University (1973-76).