Steven Lansky

Biography

Author Steven Lansky is a writer, editor, producer, announcer, teacher, actor, and activist. He teaches Creative Writing, both Poetry and Fiction at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  Lansky’s memoir “The Citizen” is currently being serialized and archived at http://www.queencityforum.com.  His novel “Jack Acid” is available as an audionovel.  This six cd box set can be ordered from the author or purchased at New World Bookstore in Cincinnati.  He published a chapbook of urban poems in 2002, “Main St.”, with an afterword by Mike Henson.

The first edition is nearly completely sold out.  Lansky has performed often at the Riverbank Poetry Series and values his strong connection to the writers of the region that includes Hamilton and Fairfield. He did summer radio on WAIF Cincinnati in 2002, co-hosting “Audio Anarchy” and “Hard Rain in Deep Elem.” During his his studies for a MA in Creative Writing Fiction at Miami University he traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia where he attended fiction and playwrighting workshops with (among others) Marina Shron, Denis Johnson, Josip Novakovich, and Jonathan Ames. He served as a fiction editor for Oxford Magazine at Miami University and for THIS: A Serial Review, a Cincinnati based prize-winning literary arts journal.

In 2000 he served as a judge for Cincinnati’s School for the Creative and Performing Arts Corbett Mayerson Awards for Creative Writing. In 1999, he presented a staged reading of ?Temporary Situation? at the 5/3 Bank Theater of the Aronoff Center as part of the Cincinnati Playwright’s Initiative.  He is a member of Artists for the Drop Inn Center since 1998 and he has designed and taught the literature of the homeless at the college level. He is a regular slam poetry performer, winner of numerous readings. He served as host of Night Music, a weekly radio program on 89.7 WNKU from 1989-1998 where he performed poetry and hosted many musical and literary guests.  He was named volunteer of the year at WNKU in 1994. He received Cincinnati Arts Allocation Committee Grants in 1989 and 1990 and was named Poet Laureate of Over-the-Rhine in 1985 and 1986. He is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writer’s Cooperative since 1985.