Clarence Major
Contributing Editor
Major reviews for The Washington Post Book World and has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book World, American Vision, Essence, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, the American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, The American Poetry Review, and more than a hundred other periodicals and anthologies in this country, Europe, South America, and Africa. In 1991, he served as fiction judge for The National Book Awards. He has served twice on National Endowment for the Arts panels, and in 1997-98, he served as judge for the Pen/Faulkner Awards. He has traveled extensively and lived in various parts of the United States and for extended periods in France and Italy. Clarence Major currently lives in northern California.
Link: http://www.clarencemajor.com
Selected Bibliography:
One Flesh (2003)
Such Was The Season (2003)
Waiting for Sweet Betty (2002)
Come by Here: My Mother's Life (2002)
Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism (2000)
All-Night Visitors (1998)
Configurations: New & Selected Poems 1958-1998 (1999)
Dirty Bird Blues (1996)
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (1996)
Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (1994)
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1993)
Editors
Publisher: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Editor: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Managing Editor: Jeffrey A. Sartain
Assistant Editor: JJ Hernandez
Past Publishers: Ronald Sukenick, Charles B. Harris
Associate Editors: Charles Alexander, Rudolfo Anaya, Frederick Luis Aldama, Mark Amerika, R.M. Berry, Christine Hume, Charles Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Anthony Madrid, Cris Mazza, Gina M. MacKenzie, Christina Milletti, Doug Nufer, John Tytell, Barry Wallenstein, Tom Williams
Contributing Editors: Ron Arias, Michael Bérubé, Rosellen Brown, Andrei Codrescu, Rikki Ducornet, Dagoberto Gilb, C.S Giscombe, Joseph D. Haske, Russell Hoover, Clarence Major, Carole Maso, Larry McCaffery, Michael McClure, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel T. O'Hara, Marjorie Perloff, Robert Peters, Corinne Robins, Charles Russell, Paul Schiavo, Barry Seiler, Charles Simic, Bruce Sterling, Regina Weinreich