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Bill Lavender is a poet, novelist, musician, carpenter and publisher living in New Orleans. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry—most recently, city of god—and a novel trilogy, Three Letters. He is also the publisher at Lavender Ink/Diálogos. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in dozens of print and web journals and anthologies, with theoretical writings appearing in Contemporary Literature and Poetics Today, among others.

His ground-breaking verse memoir, Memory Wing, dubbed by Rodger Kamentetz "a contemporary autobiographical masterpiece," was published by Black Widow in 2011. His novel, Q, a neo-picaresque view of the surreal world of the future, appeared from Trembling Pillow in 2013. A chapbook, surrealism, wa

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Bill Lavender Currently working on the sequel to Q, called Little A.
Bill Lavender I don't usually get inspired until I actually sit down and begin. I can get ideas that get me started but something quite different, and usually bette…moreI don't usually get inspired until I actually sit down and begin. I can get ideas that get me started but something quite different, and usually better, finally comes out.(less)
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Q

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Memory Wing

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I of the Storm

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Look the Universe Is Dreaming

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While Sleeping

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Guest Chain

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Transfixion

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Three Letters: Novellas

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