Hobart 9

The Games Issue

By Barry.Graham, Stefan Kiesbye, Mike Alber, and more

2008

First Published

3.76

Average Rating

160

Number of Pages

4H51M

Audio Length

Part of Series

Hobart

Series · 8 books

By Brandi Wells, Lille CarrÃ©, Barry.Graham, and more

The ninth issue of Hobart: Another Literary Journal. Built around the theme of games, this issue features essays on Magic: The Gathering and Leisure Suit Larry, comics by Jeffrey Brown and Lilli CarrÃ©, a roundtable discussion abotu role-playing games, and short stories about nearly everything else game-related.

Avg Rating

3.76

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

18%

4 STARS

53%

3 STARS

18%

2 STARS

12%

1 STARS

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Authors

Stefan Kiesbye has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Born on the German coast of the Baltic Sea, he moved to Berlin in the early 1980s. He studied drama and worked in radio before starting a degree in American studies, English, and comparative literature at Berlin’s Free University. A scholarship brought him to Buffalo, New York, in 1996. Kiesbye now lives in Portales, NM, where he teaches Creative Writing at Eastern New Mexico University. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and his first book, Next Door Lived a Girl, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award.

Kim Chinquee's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies including The Nation, Ploughshares, Storyquarterly, Indiana Reveiw, Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review, Fiction, Willow Springs, and others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize. Her collections OH BABY, PISTOL, VEER, SHOT GIRLS, WETSUIT, SNOWDOG and her novel PIPETTE were published by Ravenna Press; her collection of prose poems, PRETTY, was published by White Pine Press. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at SUNY-Buffalo State University, Associate Editor of Midwest Review, Senior Editor of New World Writing and Chief Editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal)..

Author of a couple of novels: THE LOST EPISODES OF REVIE BRYSON and DO NOT GO ON. Editor of AN INDIANA CHRISTMAS and MY NAME WAS NEVER FRANKENSTEIN: AND OTHER CLASSIC ADVENTURE TALES REMIXED and co-editor (with Michael Martone) of WINESBURG, INDIANA. Lives in Indy, teaches at Butler, believes that breakfast burritos are the perfect food.

Brandi Wells is the author of This Boring Apocalypse, Please Don't Be Upset, and Poisonhorse. Their debut novel, Cleaner, was published by Wildfire Books in August 2023 and is forthcoming from Hanover Square Press in January 2024 as The Cleaner. They teach creative writing at CSU Fullerton and hold a Phd in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Southern California.

Joe Wenderoth

Author · 8 books

Joe Wenderoth grew up near Baltimore. He is the author of No Real Light (Wave Books, 2007), The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self (Verse Press 2005) and Letters to Wendy's (Verse Press 2000). Wesleyan University Press published his first two books of poems: Disfortune (1995) and It Is If I Speak (2000). He is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. For more information on this author, go to: http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/46-...