Corey Mesler

Poet, Fiction Writer

Memphis, TN

Tennessee US

Email:

coreyjmesler@gmail.com

Website:

www.coreymesler.wordpress.com

Twitter/X:

@coreymesler

Author's Bio

COREY MESLER has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published nine novels, four short story collections, six full-length poetry collections, and a dozen chapbooks. His novel, Memphis Movie, attracted kind words from Ann Beattie, Peter Coyote, and William Hjorstberg, among others. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart many times, and three of his poems were chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also wrote the screenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017. With his wife he runs Burke's Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthology:

Best of the Web 2009 (Dzanc Books, 2009)

Books:

The Diminishment of Charlie Cain (Livingston Press, 2021)

The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros (Cervena Barva Press, 2020)

Memphis Movie (Counterpoint Press, 2017)

Robert Walker (Livingston Press, 2016)

Diddy-Wah-Diddy: a Beale Street Suite (Ampersand Books, 2013)

Following Richard Brautigan (Livingston Press, 2010)

Listen: 29 Short Conversations (Brown Paper Publishing , 2009)

The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (Bronx River Press, 2009)

We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (Livingston Press, 2006)

Talk: a Novel in Dialogue (Livingston Press, 2002)

Journal:

Five Points

Poetry

Anthology:

Good Poems American Places (Viking, 2011)

Books:

Madstones (BlazeVOX books, 2018)

Among the Mensans (Iris Press, 2017)

Opaque Melodies that Would Bug Most People (a...p press, 2015)

Our Locust Years (unbound CONTENT, 2013)

Before the Great Troubling (CreateSpace, 2011)

Some Identity Problems (Foothills Publishing, 2008)

Journals:

Berkeley Poetry Review

Poetry

Prizes won:

Memphis Film Prize, 2017 (screenplay)

First Place Feature Writing, Memphis Magazine, 1999

SouthWest InfoNet Library Director's Award, 2004

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Iris Murdoch, Steve Stern, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, John Updike, Peter DeVries, Toni Morrison, Steven Millhauser, John Barth, James Tate, Mark Strand, John Crowley, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene.

What I'm reading now:

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Niagara Falls

Raised in:

Memphis, TN

Tennessee

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Last update: Aug 02, 2021