Future Tense Books is a Portland, Oregon micropress that has existed since 1990. My name is Kevin Sampsell and I'm the editor and publisher. I publish two or three exclusive chapbooks every year along with a full-length book on my series through Manic D Press in San Francisco.
I've published everyone from Lyn Lifshin, Susannah Breslin, and Richard Meltzer to Zoe Trope, Sarah Grace McCandless, Mike Topp, and Elizabeth Ellen. Our newest books are Myriam Gurba's Dahlia Season, (published with Manic D Press), Gary Lutz's Partial List of People to Bleach, and Double Header (a flipbook with two stories) by Oregon author Suzanne Burns.
I live with my thirteen year old son in an upstairs apartment in Northeast Portland. I've been working at Powell's City of Books since 1997, where I coordinate events and run the small press and zine sections. I've also written a few books myself. And I write about books for Associated Press and other publications.
My collection of stories, Beautiful Blemish was published by Word Riot Press in 2005. I also edited The Insomniac Reader that same year (Manic D Press) and I guest-edited issue 4.3 of Spork Magazine in 2006.
My brand new book is my longest collection of fiction yet, entitled Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press). It is personally recommended by fine writers such as Sam Lipsyte, Jami Attenberg, and Davy Rothbart. I'm also working on an expanded book of non-fiction that will include all the flash memoir stories from A Common Pornography, a book that went out of print much too quickly. In 2009, Akashic Books will publish Portland Noir, an anthology that I'll be editing for the next few months.
The image on this profile is by Ivan Brunetti, from my chapbook, Etiquette For Evil (published by Kapow! a few years ago).
If you want to email me the old fashioned way: [email protected]
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