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Timothy DeLizza

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Born

The United States

Website

http://www.timothy-delizza.com

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Genre

Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

Influences

Han Kang Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...more

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March 2017

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Timothy DeLizza grew up in Brooklyn, NY. He lives in Baltimore, MD and works as an energy attorney for the government.

He mostly writes literary fiction with speculative elements, but has been known to write something first then come up with a genre for it afterwards.

His essay "Legally Speaking, Rats Aren't Even Animals" won the 2020 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize.

His fiction has recently appeared in the Southwest Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Grain Magazine. His nonfiction has recently appeared in Salon.com, Earth Island Journal and Undark. He has run the Baltimore-based variety show Drinking Club since 2016. ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 47 ratings · 12 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Jerry (from accounting) (A Short Story) 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Lane Anthology: Volume Five (Dark Lane Anthologies Book 5) by Tim Jeffreys (Goodreads Author), L.S. Johnson (Goodreads Author), Louis Rakovich 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartleby Snopes Issue 15 by Anne Anthony (Goodreads Author), Paul Beckman, Tara Campbell (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Lane Anthology: Volume Six (Dark Lane Anthologies Book 6) by Tim Jeffreys (Goodreads Author), Jeff Meyers, Laura Maria Grierson 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Impossible Voice #11 by Laura Legge, Timothy DeLizza (Goodreads Author), Elena V. Molina 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I have a new flash memoir piece up at the Washington Square Review (NYU's MFA litmag). It is about my old bus commute to Midwood high school in the '90s.

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Timothy rated a book it was ok Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World by Mark Waddell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Clever premise, workmanlike execution. What if Hogwarts was run by Wolfram & Hart, but everyone has the emotional intelligence of a cliched teenager. Would work better as straight satire or more gritty, and without a clunky cozy romance subplot.
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