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Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, forthcoming from Keyhole Press in October 2010, as well as three chapbooks, Wolf Parts (Keyhole Press), The Collectors (Caketrain Press), and How the Broken Lead the Blind (Willows Wept Press). His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Hayden's Ferry Review, Willow Springs, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been selected for inclusion in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. His book reviews and critical essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, American Book Review, and The Quarterly Conversation.

He is also the editor of The Collagist and of Dzanc's Best of the Web anthology series.

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife Jessica, and can be reached via e-mail at mdbell79@gmail.com.

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Wednesday
Nov042009

There is no damage that isn’t already also healed

 

The wolves are not wolves. They are ravens. The ravens are rocks. The rocks are water. The water is a wolf. The forest disappears into mutability to reveal how terrible and necessary are names.

--From "The Bells" by Jason Christie

The Fall 2009 issue of Action, Yes! is now live, featuring the work of Scott Abels, Maureen Alsop, Kathleen Andersen, Takako Arai (translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles), Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Cara Benson, Mark Bilbrey, Wyatt Bonikowski, Jessica Bozek, David Brennan, Megan Martin and Anne Lesley Selcer, plus a special Canadian section curated by François Luong (from which the above excerpt is taken).

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