About Liam

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Liam is the author of The Cloud Atlas (Delacorte, 2004; Dial, 2005) and All Saints (Delacorte, 2007; Dial, 2008). He chairs the English department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and previously coordinated their Ph.D. program in creative writing. He has regularly contributed to local and national public radio, has briefly held forth on TV about zeppelins and jetpacks, and has written for Commonweal, Esquire.com (on swimming and flying), Slate, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Forbes FYI, Good Housekeeping, Parents and publications across North and South America (well, kind of: a few pieces in Canada and one in Brazil). His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of literary journals, including Gulf Coast, Tinge, the Writers’ Chronicle, Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Caketrain, failbetter and Phoebe. Liam is also the creator and co-executive producer of the Poetry Everywhere animated film series.

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And in answer to the perennial question, "do you really look like your author photo?": yes, if I'm on the roof of a Manhattan apartment building with photographer Greg Martin. In real life, I appear in color.