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American Stories: Contributors
Korey Cieslinski Cathode Ray Culture is my first fictional venture and I hope that many more will follow. I am nineteen years old and attend FCCJ's Kent Campus. I plan on majoring in English and am interested in teaching. This story was inspired from my personal distaste for American popular culture, which has destroyed communication within the family structure and rendered many Americans dull and apathetic.
Sohrab Fracis won the Iowa Fiction Contest 2001 and will be publishing his first book, Ticket to Minto, a collection of short stories featuring American and India, this fall. He writes from Jacksonville and has graciously provided an interview about the writing life for this issue.
FCCJ students and Suzanne Hess who selects,edits and supervisesVOICES, a collection of essays written by FCCJ students for their classes. She teaches communications at Kent Campus. FLAMINGO WRITERS solutes the fine writing of the authors therein.
Brandon Murphy lives and writes somewhere in Jacksonville.
Genny Platon I wrote Portrait of a Young Cynic in a sudden fit of madness. I felt like a tiger in a cage and took a chance in writing such a story. I couldn't look at the guidelines and focus on that alone. So I took something I felt was more universal. Life. No matter what race or creed, this was an issue I could talk about on any level. It wasn't something I thought I'd place in a contest. I was concerned that it might make people angry or at least make them think.
Christopher Vogt I began writing in grade school as a way of having conversations with myself on things that interested or puzzled me and to capture ands savor the little adventures of my life. I soon found that, like fish stories, these things grow in the retelling, further enriching "life's rich pageant," as inspector Cluseau so aptly put it. I now enjoy keeping a journal regularly for the good and the bad things and am writing a novel which give me the enjoyment of traveling, in which the trip, as much or more than the destination, is an end in itself. I wrote the story Brief Candle specifically for the contest and with hopes of trying to write stories for magazines in the not too distant future.
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