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| photography by Adam Shemper |
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Eli
Brown
was born in San Francisco
but spent his childhood in the sweltering Imperial
Valley swimming in canals, reading Hindu mythology, and writing. He studied painting and sculpture
at the University
of California Santa Cruz
and
received his Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Mills
College.
He
now lives in Oakland where, in addition to writing, he
maintains a massage therapy
practice, cultivates robust fermentation cultures, and studies American
Sign
Language. His interest in cults stems from a belief that their methods
of
abusive persuasion are identical to those found in advertising and
political
governance. It is his contention that everyone, at some point in their
lives,
was or will be ripe for cult recruitment. His poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review and Homewrecker: An
Adultery Reader. The
Great Days is
his first novel. He is
currently hard at work on his second novel which concerns guilt,
forgiveness,
and dog-headed men. |
