Tao Lin is an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. He is the author of a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee, and a story collection, Bed, which were published simultaneously by Melville House Publishing in May, 2007. He is also the author...
[more]Tao Lin is an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
He is the author of a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee, and a story collection, Bed, which were published simultaneously by Melville House Publishing in May, 2007. He is also the author of a poetry collection, you are a little bit happier than i am, which won Action Books' December Prize in 2005. His second poetry-collection, cognitive-behavioral therapy, was published in May, 2008 by Melville House Publishing, who will also publish his second novel. A chapbook of poetry, this emotion was a little e-book, and one of stories, Today the Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today, were published by the Internet press Bear Parade in 2006.
Tao serves as co-editor of poetry for 3:AM Magazine and co-edits with Ellen Kennedy a literary press called Ass Hi Books[2]. His writing has appeared in Noon, Nerve, Vice, Esquire, The Stranger, The Mississippi Review, Bear Parade, The Cincinnati Review, Other Voices, Fourteen Hills, and other magazines.
Tao's writing has attracted both negative and positive attention in younger, mostly-independent venues such as The Stranger, ANP Quarterly, Paper, Paste, Nylon, Vice, Flaunt, Giant Robot, and Gawker who referred to him as "maybe perhaps the single most irritating person we've ever had to deal with," though they later "pardoned" him.
He once tried, and failed, to rob an American Apparel.
He is the editor of the literary press Muumuu House, founded in October 2008, which will publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and gmail chats online and in print.
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