Kris Saknussem’s first collection of poems IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER was published by The False Frontier Press in Melbourne and London in 1988 and won the Mary Gilmore Award from ASAL (the Association for the Study of Australian Literature). ZANESVILLE, his first novel was published to critical acclaim by the Villard Books imprint of Random House in 2005, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and released in hardcover in Russia. His other published books include ENIGMATIC PILOT from Ballantine-Del Rey, SINISTER MINIATURES, a collection of short stories from Lazy Fascist Press, a portfolio book of art THE COLORS OF COMPULSION from Les Editions du Zaporogue…REVEREND AMERICA (Dark Coast Press), EAT JELLIED EELS AND THINK DISTANT THOUGHTS (PS Publishing) and SEA MONKEYS, A Memory Book (Soft Skull Press). Forthcoming work includes a play, THE HUMBLE ASSESSMENT, from Lazy Fascist Press, another portfolio book of visual art from Les Editions du Zaporogue called POSSIBLE LANGUAGES, a collaboration of text and image with the French photographer Esther Voisin entitled INTIME, and several new works of both fiction and nonfiction. www.krissaknussemm.com