About the Author:
Daniel Nester's most recent book, How to Be Inappropriate, described as "a deeply funny new collection of booger-flecked nonfiction" in Time Out New York, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2010. He is editor of The Incredible Sestina Anthology, published by Write Bloody Publishing in 2013.
Nester's first two books, God Save My Queen: A Tribute (Soft Skull, 2003) and God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On (2004), are collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen. His third, The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVOX, 2006), is a collection of poems.
As a journalist and essayist, his work has appeared in a variety of places, such as Salon, The New York Times, The Morning News, The Daily Beast, The Rumpus, N+1, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and the Poetry Foundation website.
His work has been anthologized in such collections as Lost and Found, The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, Now Write! Nonfiction, and Isn't It Romantic? 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets. His poems have appeared in such journals as Coconut, Shampoo, Taint, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, jubilat, Crazyhorse, Open City, Slope, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other places. He is the former editor of the online journals Unpleasant Event Schedule and La Petite Zine and worked as Assistant Web Editor for Sestinas for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Currently, he is an associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, where he teaches creative nonfiction and poetry and is on the core faculty of their M.F.A. program in creative writing.
Review:
"I couldn’t stop reading it. ... Nester succeeds precisely because he is so ambivalent about his crush." -- David Barringer, Word Riot
"I have to say: Nester NAILS it. Those of us who have been there ... will most appreciate Nester’s two books." -- Gabriel Welsch, small spiral notebook
"One of the more interesting personas I’ve seen emerge in recent prose." -- Sean Thomas Dougherty, American Book Review, January/February 2005
"[A]bsolutely fantastic ... as beautiful as fat bottomed girls on bicycles." -- Mike Faloon, Roctober
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