R V BranhamR.V. Branham, orig. from So. Calif., has lived in Little Beirut, OR., since the day that Clinton was elected President, make of that what you will. When not co-hosting a floating æther-den, working as a researcher & taxonomist for a stock photo agenc, an asst. x-ray tech, & a wood bundler, R.V. attended U.S.C., Cal St. Dominguez Hills, & M.S.U. A few dozen of his short stories & novellas, as well as occasional poems & essays, have been in The Writing Disorder, Merida Review, Unlikely Stories, 2 Gyrls Quarterly, Back Brain Recluse (UK), Téma (Zagreb), Poetinis Druskininų Ruduo 2016 (Vilnius), Ellery Queen's, Asimov's, as well as Red Lemonade's Hybrid beasts e-book anthol., Full Spectrum 3, Midnight Graffiti, Dozois & Dann's Dinosaurs 2, Ghosts 2, & Drawn to Words, & Mother Sun anthologies (Melbourne, Oz). He also translates, usually into Spanish, but sometimes fr. (for Barcelona's Transit cine y otros desvíos). Over 300 of his Spanish translations of prose & pomes have been in the completely multilingual Gobshite Quarterly (which he also publishes & edits), as well as Latin American lit webzines & Transit. His plays, Bad Teeth, & Matt & Geof Go Flying, have been performed in Los Angeles & Little Beirut. As the founder/publisher of GobQ/Reprobate he has received awards & grants fr. Oregon Literary Arts, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Argentine Ministry of Culture & Commerce, & the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture; through his Reprobate imprint he's published a bilingual en-face ed. of Luisa Valenzuela's proto-punk classic Deathcats/El gato eficaz (the only version available in English), as well as Oregon Book award winner Douglas Spangle's A White Concrete Day: poems, 1978-2013, Coleman Stevenson's Breakfast: 43 Poems, Brenda Taulbee's The Art of Waking Up: 62 Poems & a Song of Despair, & M. F. McAuliffe's Seattle, a novella, & her pome collection, the crucifiXes. Lastly, he is the author of the 90+-language dictionary of insult, invective, obscenity & blasphemy, Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages, in its 2nd. printing, fr. Soft Skull). Read More Read Less