Howard Junker

Howard Junker is a writer and the founder and editor of "ZYZZYVA: West Coast Writers & Artists".

Howard Junker was born in Port Washington, New York, and was educated at Horace Greeley, Canterbury, Amherst, Stanford and the University of San Francisco. He served in the Naval Air Reserve as an anti-submarine warfare technician and wrote for many magazines, including "Architectural Digest", "Art in America", "Artforum", "Esquire", "Film Comment", "Film Quarterly", "Harper's Bazaar", "The Nation", "The New Republic", "New York", "Newsweek", "Playboy", "Rolling Stone", "The Village Voice" and "Vogue". He also worked as a documentary filmmaker, a television producer, a P.R. flack, a construction carpenter, a fondue cook, and a junior high school science teacher. He appeared in the films "The Werewolf of Washington" and "I Am A Sex Addict". He recently made his YouTube debut covering "Satisfaction". He founded "ZYZZYVA", a journal for West Coast writers and artists, in 1985, and has edited five anthologies of work from its pages, most recently, "AutoBioDiversity" as well as four "ZYZZYVA" first novels and three "ZYZZYVA" first collections of poems. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their daughter, a junior in college in Washington, D.C.

elected bibliography

*cite book| last =Junker| first =H.| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays By West Coast Writers| publisher =Mercury House| date =1991 | location =San Francisco| pages =| url =| doi =| id =| isbn =9781562790141
*cite book| last =Junker| first =H.| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =The Writer's Notebook| publisher =HarperCollinsWest| date =1995 | location =San Francisco| pages =| url =| doi =| id =| isbn =9780062586186
*cite book| last =Junker| first =H.| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Strange Attraction: The Best of Ten Years of ZYZZYVA| publisher =University of Nevada Press| date =1995 | location =Reno| pages =| url =| doi =| id = | isbn =9780874172751
*cite book| last =Junker| first =H.| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Lucky Break: How I Became A Writer| publisher =Heyday| date =1999| location =Berkeley, CA| pages =| url =| doi =| id =| isbn =9780325001562
*cite book| last =Junker| first =H.| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from ZYZZYVA| publisher =Heyday| date =2005 | location =Berkeley, CA| pages =| url =| doi =| id =| isbn =9781597140072

External links

* [http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2007/07/01/10-questions-howard-junker-editor-of-zyzzyva/ Ten questions with Howard Junker]