Chuck Wachtel is also the author of the novels Joe The Engineer, winner of the Pen/Hemingway Citation, and The Gates; Because We Are Here, a collection of stories and novellas (all Viking-Penguin); and five collections of poems and short prose, including The Coriolis Effect and, most recently, What Happens to Me, both published by Hanging Loose Press. Joe The Engineer is currently in development as a film, for which he has written the screenplay. His short fiction, poetry, essays and translations have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies both here and abroad. He lives in New York City and taught in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.





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