New Contributor at Big Other

If you’ve been tapped into the online indie literary community Shya Scanlon should be no stranger. Most recently, the serialization of his slipstream novel Forecast was featured in 42 different Web sites, including small presses, literary journals and blogs. One of the participants, Flatmancrooked, will be publishing Forecast in the spring of 2010. Shya Scanlon’s poetry collection, In This Alone Impulse, was published by Noemi Press in 2009. Shya received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. Please visit him HERE.

Welcome to Big Other, Shya!

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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