Calling Up the Dead

9781931982214

193198221X

Brett Weaver, originally from Hayling Island, England, was schooled in that country until he was twenty. He graduated from Boston University in 1989, and completed his M.F.A. in Fiction from Wichita State University in Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of North Texas. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the wonderful” Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. He has published numerous short stories and two plays in such journals as New York Stories, Phoebe, Oasis, The Dickinson Review, The North Atlantic Review, and a critical article on Gabriel Garcia-Marquez in Notes on Contemporary Literature. Presently, he is at work on a screenplay entitled EternityPoints, a memoir entitled Diary of a Furniture Mover, and is trying to find a producer for his Hamlet parody, 1-800-OHAMLET. He is happily unmarried and child-less, and does NOT enjoy jogging and working out, but perseveres in the definitely unvain attempt to keep the inevitable” at bay, or, at least, until next Thursday.