Jeremy Gardner is a writer, actor, musician and painter. He was born in 1983 in Portland, Maine. In May 2006, he presented the paper “Upton Sinclair’s Near-Fiction and The Scientific Method†at the 1st International Conference on Literary Journalism at Université Nancy Deux. He recently completed his first solo album ("sea-board trek") and performed his play “Basketbrawl†at the Yockadot Poetics Theater Festival. A graduate in English from The George Washington University, he received a student fellowship for poetry from the Lannan Foundation. He is currently working on a multicultural, proletarian novel entitled, THE SWEAT RACE, that pays close attention to dialect and chronicles his experience working as a laborer on two fifteen-story apartment buildings in Aventura, Florida. His creative writing is published at www.dcpoetry.com/anth2005, The Susquehanna Review, Boog City, Wicked Alice, and Your Black Eye. Poems are forthcoming in the 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. In 2004, Jeremy collaborated with producer Jason Asdourian to record THEM ISMS' debut album, AND THEIR CURRENCY, a CD of Literary Hip-Hop music, dubbed LIT-HOP. It was released independently. The two are currently working on their second album, THE BREAKS (or, Live from My Apartment), which they expect will be complete in 2007.FOR BOOKINGS, CASTING AND PRESS, CONTACT [email protected]
