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Tom Spanbauer

Tom Spanbauer is a Pulitzer-nominated American writer, living in Portland, Oregon. He is the creator of the concept of Dangerous Writing. He studied creative writing with Gordon Lish at Columbia University. As a writer he has explored issues of race, of sexual identity, of how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born.

His published novels are:

  • Faraway Places
  • The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
  • In The City Of Shy Hunters
  • Now Is The Hour

Volume 1 of The Quarterly, published in the Spring of 1987, featured Spanbauer’s “Sea Animals”.


External links

  • Official site
  • Review of In The City… at The Stranger.com