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Fiction Renner's homage to Borges, "Translated by the Author," appeared in 2008 in New York Tyrant and the same magazine published "Stop Your Caterwauling" (excerpted from the so far unpublished novel A Death by the Sea) in 2009. Other selections from the novel have since appeared in The Anemone Sidecar, Unscroll and Keyhole. Selections from the verse/prose novella Disbelief are upcoming in New York Tyrant and The Anemone Sidecar, Chapter 6, and Sleeping Fish published the "Introduction" to Christabel: a Fiction in late 2009. Grey Sparrow Journal has already published an excerpt from Christabel along with "On the Waves" from the chapbook-length story collection Dr Fenech's Guide to Lycanthropy in Malta (1913). "Running Night," also from Dr Fenech, appeared in The Collagist. All of these works are set in (or in some way related to) Malta which Renner first visited in 2007. "Philoctetes / Sophocles / Melita" appeared in February 2010 in Everyday Genius, as part of a series Fortunato Salazar solicited from various authors in response to several lines from Sophocles' Philoctetes. Dr Polidori's Sketchbook, a chapbook featuring text and pencil drawings, was released in April 2010 by Mud Luscious Press. His ghost stories "The Retablo" and "Which, Being Translated, Means" were published by Ash-Tree Press (Canada) in, respectively, the magazine All Hallows and the anthology Shadows and Silence. Meg Pokrass interviewed Renner for SmokeLong Quarterly in late 2009. Criticism Since 1997, Renner has written the literary column "In Dissent" for Web Del Sol. Art His illustrations have been used as cover and/or interior art in four chapbooks from Bannock Street Books, including the chapbook anthologies Flushed, The Mother, the Son and the Holy Ghost and Outlaws, and the story collections St Sebastian and the Ravioli of Love by Sarah Black and Lost and Found by Meg Pokrass. His photograph "Kiss Kiss" is featured on the cover of Same Opposite, a chapbook by Parker Tettleton, and Eric Beeny's Of Creatures (2011) will feature another of Renner's photographs. "The Bicyclist" and "Wither" appeared in July 2010 in the Summer Splash issue of Sleet Magazine. Translation Ravenna Press published Chinese Checkers: Three Fictions in May 2006. The book includes Cooper Renner's translation of three novellas by noted Mexican writer Mario Bellatin: "Chinese Checkers," "Hero Dogs" and "My Skin Luminous". Renner has also translated the following works by Ignacio Padilla: "Funeral Among the Oyameles", an essay (elimae, 2005); "The Sad Fate of the Graduate Rocamadour Muskaria, a story (Cafe Irreal, 2006); and "The Kindness of Strangers", an excerpt from the novel Espiral de artillería, in The Anemone Sidecar #3 (2006: Ravenna Press. Lovers Hate, his translation of the crime novel Los que aman, odian by Silvina Ocampo and A. Bioy Casares, has been serialized at elimae. Editing and Design In 2005, he began editing elimae, founded by Deron Bauman in 1996 and edited by him through 2004. Doug Martin and Brian Beatty interviewed Renner in 2007 for Snowvigate magazine, and he has been interviewed also at HTMLGiant. With Deron Bauman and Kathryn Rantala, he founded Triple Press in 2005 and edited Faruk Ulay's Terra Infirma (2005), Robert Castle's The End of Travel (2006) and Norman Lock's Two Plays for Radio (2006). In 2006, he became a co-editor at Ravenna Press. Kim Chinquee's first collection Oh Baby is now available and was followed in 2009 by Daryl Scroggins' collection This Is Not the Way We Came In. He has also designed the texts and covers for Ravenna's new edition of Rudy Wilson's The Red Truck (originally published by Knopf in 1987) and Wilson's first collection of short fiction, Sonja's Blue, both of which appeared in 2009, as well as designing the cover of the anthology Online Writing: the Best of the First Ten Years, ed. by Doug Martin and Kim Chinquee, due to be published shortly. |
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