Amberson, Joshua James: - Joshua James Amberson writes essays, zines, very short stories, articles about arts and culture, and novels he hides in drawers. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Portland Mercury, The Seattle Times, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, and Tin House, among others. He's the author of the chapbooks Everyday Mythologies, Slow Motion Heroics, and Writing Exercises (And Various Approaches to Life on Earth), the zine series Basic Paper Airplane, as well as the forthcoming essay collection Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes. He lives with a lovely human, an aging Italian greyhound, and an elderly tortoiseshell cat in Portland, Oregon.