The New Fiction by Joe David Bellamy

Director of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1990 through 1992, Joe David Bellamy won the Editors' Book Award for his novel Suzi Sinzinnati, and his collection of short fiction, Atomic Love, was an AWP Award Series selection. He is also author or editor of ten other books, including The New Fiction, Superfiction, American Poetry Observed, and two collections of poetry. A former president of both the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM), Bellamy was the founding editor and publisher of Fiction International magazine and press. He has taught fiction writing and contemporary American literature for more than twenty-five years at St. Lawrence University, George Mason University, the University of Iowa, and elsewhere.