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Christopher Chambers
Madison, WI Born 1960 Link to author website Link to Poets & Writers Link to Chambers "How to Write Your Own Story" on WPR |
Biography:
Christopher Chambers is a writer and an editor. He was born in Madison, and has since lived in North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana. He's worked as a farmhand, a carpenter, a bartender, and a lifeguard. He's worked in a warehouse, a slaughterhouse, and in an English Department. He's an erstwhile Teamster and he's given up tenure. He's repossessed cars. He taught creative writing and screenwriting in New Orleans for 16 years. He's lived a rock's throw from the Mississippi River at both ends, on the west bank in Minneapolis and downriver in Algiers.
His work has been published widely in magazines and anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories, French Quarter Fiction, The Southern Review, Washington Square, and BOMB Magazine. He received an MFA degree from the University of Alabama, where he was editor of the Black Warrior Review. He was editor of the New Orleans Review from 2000-2013, and has been the editor of Midwest Review since 2015. He is the author of Delta 88 (Split Oak Press, 2013), a book of flash fiction.
He has written for television, and published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, Carolina Quarterly, Indiana Review, Exquisite Corpse, Copper Nickel, Louisiana Literature, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Georgetown Review, Notre Dame Review, Washington Square, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Lit, BOMB Magazine, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. His work has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 5 Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been anthologized in French Quarter Fiction, Knoxville Bound, Maple Street Rag, and in the Best American Mystery Stories series.
He taught creative writing for twenty-five years, at the University of Alabama, Loyola University New Orleans, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chambers retired from UW-Madison in 2020 when Continuing Studies discontinued its writing program. He currently teaches with the Madison Writers Studio and the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project, is the Academy Courses Coordinator for writing, and works as a bartender at Working Draft Brewing Company in Madison.
(From https://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/staff/christopher-chambers/ and http://madisonwriters.com/about)
Works by Christopher Chambers:
Books:
Christopher Chambers is a writer and an editor. He was born in Madison, and has since lived in North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana. He's worked as a farmhand, a carpenter, a bartender, and a lifeguard. He's worked in a warehouse, a slaughterhouse, and in an English Department. He's an erstwhile Teamster and he's given up tenure. He's repossessed cars. He taught creative writing and screenwriting in New Orleans for 16 years. He's lived a rock's throw from the Mississippi River at both ends, on the west bank in Minneapolis and downriver in Algiers.
His work has been published widely in magazines and anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories, French Quarter Fiction, The Southern Review, Washington Square, and BOMB Magazine. He received an MFA degree from the University of Alabama, where he was editor of the Black Warrior Review. He was editor of the New Orleans Review from 2000-2013, and has been the editor of Midwest Review since 2015. He is the author of Delta 88 (Split Oak Press, 2013), a book of flash fiction.
He has written for television, and published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, Carolina Quarterly, Indiana Review, Exquisite Corpse, Copper Nickel, Louisiana Literature, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Georgetown Review, Notre Dame Review, Washington Square, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Lit, BOMB Magazine, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. His work has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 5 Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been anthologized in French Quarter Fiction, Knoxville Bound, Maple Street Rag, and in the Best American Mystery Stories series.
He taught creative writing for twenty-five years, at the University of Alabama, Loyola University New Orleans, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chambers retired from UW-Madison in 2020 when Continuing Studies discontinued its writing program. He currently teaches with the Madison Writers Studio and the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project, is the Academy Courses Coordinator for writing, and works as a bartender at Working Draft Brewing Company in Madison.
(From https://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/staff/christopher-chambers/ and http://madisonwriters.com/about)
Works by Christopher Chambers:
Books:
- Delta 88 (2013)
- Kind of Blue (forthcoming in 2022)
- “Highway 61 Revisited Again, or, Gone South: Creating Place in the Twenty-First Century” North-South: Essays on Gender, Race, and Region (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)
- “O Happy Living Things” in Something in the Water (Portals Press, 2011)
- “Dear Maddox” in Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press, 2007)
- “Hemispheres” in Maple Street Rag III (Portals Press, 2007)
- “Carl, Under His Car” in Tartts II (Livingston Press, 2006)
- “Pelican & Verrett” in Intersection / New Orleans (Press Street, 2006)
- “Tattoo” in Knoxville Bound (Metro Pulse Publishing, 2004)
- “Aardvark to Aztec” in Best American Mystery Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
- “Summertime” French Quarter Fiction (Light of New Orleans Publishing, 2003)
- “The Bicycle at the Bridge” The International Anthology of Hypertext (SUNY Press, 2004)
- “Amplifier” The Southern Review
- “New Songs and Old Standards” First Draft
- “Same Old Paradise” CopperNickel
- “To Stay in New Orleans” Callaloo
- “On Montegut Street” Green Mountains Review
- “O Happy Living Things” Short Fiction
- “My Sylvie, Her Paradise” Washington Square
- “Laundry” The Normal School
- “Junky” sleepingfish
- “Cocaine Nights” sleepingfish
- “Bats Out of Hell” sleepingfish
- “A Million Little Pieces” sleepingfish
- “Vulcan” Portland Review
- “Natchez” Portland Review
- “Independence Day” Constance
- “Apocalypse Now” Constance
- “Accident of the Year” Argosy Magazine
