Gary Byrdelle Amdahl was born in Jackson, Minnesota, on August 4th, 1956. He
was raised and lived in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, spent several years in
upstate New York and Connecticut, with a brief turn in Raleigh, North Carolina,
and now lives in Redlands, California.
His plays, produced in the Twin Cities in the 1980s on
professional stages with Equity actors, include “Going Down,” “Fall Down Go
Boom,” “Dead Hand,” “Tonight's the Night,” “Muzzle Flash,” “The Border,” “Hawaii,” “Getting the Hell Out of Dodge,” and “Night, Mystery, Secresie, and Sleep.”
He was awarded two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwright's Lab in Minneapolis,
and was a participant in Midwest Playlabs.
His stories, essays, poetry (original, translated, and even set to
music), book and theater reviews, and literary features articles and interviews
have appeared in Agni, A Public Space,
The Massachusetts Review, The Gettysburg Review, Fiction, The Quarterly, Santa
Monica Review, Third Bed, Minnetonka Review, New York Times Book Review, The
Nation, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Hungry Mind Review, and many
other monthlies, weeklies, and dailies. He was awarded a Pushcart Prize and appeared in the PP anthology.
His books are: Across My Big Brass Bed (2014,
Artistically Declined Press) The Intimidator Still Lives in Our Hearts
(2013, Artistically Declined Press), I Am Death (2008, Milkweed
Editions), Visigoth (2006, Milkweed Editions, winner of ME National
Fiction Prize), and, with Leslie Brody, A Motel of the Mind (2001, Philos
Press).
With Intimidator, Artistically Declined Press has begun The Amdahl
Library Project, which will see six more books published, one each January
until 2019. Much of this work has been previously published in the magazines
listed above; The Amdahl Library Project will see these books published in
complete, unabridged, uniform editions.
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