Christopher Barzak
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born
July 21, 1975
gender
male
place of birth
Warren, Ohio, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult
influences
Jonathan Lethem, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Lewis Nordan, Sherwood Anderson, Franz Kafka, Isak Dinesen, Jeanette Winterson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Aimee Bender, Flannery O'Connor, A.S. Byatt, Haruki Murakami
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August 2007
about this author
Christopher Barzak grew up in rural Ohio, went to university in Youngstown, Ohio, and has lived in a Southern California beach town (Carlsbad), the capital of Michigan (Lansing), and in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan (Ami), where he taught English in rural junior high and elementary schools. His stories have appeared in many venues, including Nerve.com, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Strange Horizons, Salon Fantastique, Interfictions, Realms of Fantasy, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. He is the author of the novels "One for Sorrow" and "The Love We Share Without Knowing" published by Bantam Books. Currently he lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where he teaches fiction writing at Youngstown State University.
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"Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding."
— Christopher Barzak (One For Sorrow)
— Christopher Barzak (One For Sorrow)
"I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means."
— Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing)
— Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing)
"As we walked the streets together, cups of bitter coffee warming our hands, the present told its story all around us. The present has no need for us to do anything except exactly what we're doing. It's the past and future that needs our voices in order to live. So as we walked, as you spoke of yourself and your family, as you spoke of your past, I began to think of the future. I began to put us into a story. What happens after that first night is where I live sometimes, when I can gather enough of us together again, and this is how it goes."
— Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing)
— Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing)
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