Ron Kolm

Poet, Fiction Writer

Astoria, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

I have a Wikipedia listing, if someone wishes to know about my career. I have also been interviewed many times; you can google my name to find some of them/these.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthologies:
Have a NYC 3 (Three Rooms Press, 2014)
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The Unbearables Big Book of Sex (Autonomedia, 2014)
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Too Much: Tales of Excess (Unknown Press, 2014)
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Have a NYC 2 (Three Rooms Press, 2013)
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The Worst Book I Ever Read (Autonomedia, 2009)
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Crimes of the Beats (Autonomedia, 1998)
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Unbearables (Autonomedia, 1995)
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Between C and D (Penguin, 1988)
Books:
From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream (Autonomedia, 2017)
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Night Shift (Autonomedia, 2016)
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Duke & Jill (Unknown Press, 2015)
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The Plastic Factory (Autonomedia, 2011)
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Neo Phobe, with Jim Feast (Autonomedia, 2006)
Journals:
MungBeing Magazine
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New Observations
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Pink Pages
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Public Illumination Magazine
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Redtape
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Poetry

Anthologies:
I Let Go the Stars in My Hand (Great weather for MEDIA, 2014)
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Up Is Up, But So Is Down; New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (New York University Press, 2006)
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Help Yourself! (Autonomedia, 2002)
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Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999)
Books:
Welcome to the Barbecue (Autonomedia, 2019)
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A Change in the Weather (Sensitive Skin Books, 2017)
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Suburban Ambush (Autonomedia, 2014)
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Divine Comedy (Fly By Night Press, 2013)
Journals:
Evergreen Review
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Maintenant
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Tamarind
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the idiom

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano, Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Man of Feeling by Javier Marias

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Pittsburgh
Raised in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: May 03, 2019