R V Branham

R.V. Branham, orig. from So. Calif., has lived in Little Beirut, OR., since the day that Clinton was elected President, make of that what you will. When not co-hosting a floating æther-den, working as a researcher & taxonomist for a stock photo agency, an asst. x-ray tech, & a wood bundler, R.V. attended U.S.C., Cal St. Dominguez Hills, & M.S.U. A few dozen of his short stories & novellas, as well as occasional poems & essays, have been in The Writing Disorder, Merida Review, Unlikely Stories,...See more

R.V. Branham, orig. from So. Calif., has lived in Little Beirut, OR., since the day that Clinton was elected President, make of that what you will. When not co-hosting a floating æther-den, working as a researcher & taxonomist for a stock photo agency, an asst. x-ray tech, & a wood bundler, R.V. attended U.S.C., Cal St. Dominguez Hills, & M.S.U. A few dozen of his short stories & novellas, as well as occasional poems & essays, have been in The Writing Disorder, Merida Review, Unlikely Stories, 2 Gyrls Quarterly, Back Brain Recluse (UK), Téma (Zagreb), Poetinis Druskinin Ruduo 2016 (Vilnius), Ellery Queen's, Asimov's, as well as Red Lemonade's Hybrid beasts e-book anthol., Full Spectrum 3, Midnight Graffiti, Dozois & Dann's Dinosaurs 2, Ghosts 2, & Drawn to Words, & Mother Sun anthologies (Melbourne, Oz). He also translates, usually into Spanish, but sometimes fr. (for Barcelona's Transit cine y otros desvíos). Over 300 of his Spanish translations of prose & pomes have been in the completely multilingual Gobshite Quarterly (which he also publishes & edits), as well as Latin American lit webzines & Transit. His plays, Bad Teeth, & Matt & Geof Go Flying, have been performed in Los Angeles & Little Beirut. As the founder/publisher of GobQ/Reprobate he has received awards & grants fr. Oregon Literary Arts, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Argentine Ministry of Culture & Commerce, & the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture; through his Reprobate imprint he's published a bilingual en-face ed. of Luisa Valenzuela's proto-punk classic Deathcats/El gato eficaz (the only version available in English), as well as Oregon Book award winner Douglas Spangle's A White Concrete Day: poems, 1978-2013, Coleman Stevenson's Breakfast: 43 Poems, Brenda Taulbee's The Art of Waking Up: 62 Poems & a Song of Despair, & M. F. McAuliffe's Seattle, a novella, & her pome collection, the crucifiXes. Lastly, he is the author of the 90+-language dictionary of insult, invective, obscenity & blasphemy, Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages, in its 2nd. printing, fr. Soft Skull). See less