Karlin, Wayne (Stephen)

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KARLIN, Wayne (Stephen)

KARLIN, Wayne (Stephen). American, b. 1945. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Gannett Newspapers, White Plains, NY, reporter for the Reporter Dispatch, 1972; American College, Jerusalem, Israel, instructor in creative writing and director of student activities, 1973-75; freelance writer, Israel, 1973-75; Montgomery College, Rockville, instructor in English, 1982-84; College of Southern Maryland, LaPlata, MD, professor of language and literature, 1984-. First Casualty Press, president and coeditor, 1972-73; University of Massachusetts, visiting writer and faculty at the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, 1989-93; St. Mary's College, fiction director, Literary Festival, 1994-. Publications: NOVELS: Crossover, 1984; Lost Armies, 1988; The Extras, 1989; US, 1993; Prisoners, 1998; The Wished-For Country, 2002. TRANSLATOR: (with Phan Thanh Hao and C. Bacchi) Ho Anh Thai, Women on the Island, 2000; (and adaptor with Phan Thanh Hao) Ma Van Khang, Against the Flood, 2000; (and adaptor with Phan Thanh Hao) Nguyen Khai, Past Continuous, 2001. EDITOR: (with B.T. Paquet and L. Rottmann, and contrib.) Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans, 1973; (with Le Minh Khue and Truong Vu, and contrib.) The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers, 1995; Le Minh Khue, The Stars, the Earth, the River, 1997; Ho Anh Thai, Behind the Red Mist, 1998; (with Ho Anh Thai) Love after War: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam, 2003. OTHER: Rumors and Stones: A Journey, 1996. Address: PO Box 239, St. Marys City, MD 20686, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]