Martha Kinney

Martha Kinney has won the following literary awards: Menn Prize for Fiction, Olin Poetry Award, Elizabeth Jones Writing Scholarship, and Pazo Mayberry Poetry Award. She has had poetry published in Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art, Pearl, Luna, The Bitter Oleander, Five AM, and has poetry forthcoming in the anthology Airfare by Sarabande books. Dennis Cooper is the author of ‘The George Miles Cycle,’ an interconnected sequence of five novels that includes Closer (1989), Frisk (1991), Try (1994), Guide (1997), and Period (2000). The cycle has been translated into fourteen languages. His most recent novel is My Loose Thread (Canongate, 2002). He lives in Los Angeles.