giant 'tao lin information for journalists' post

BIOGRAPHY

Tao Lin was born in 1983 in Virginia, grew up in Orlando, Florida, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Tao Lin's parents were born in Taiwan. Tao has a B.A. in Journalism from New York University.

Tao Lin is the author of a story-collection, BED, and a novel, EEEEE EEE EEEE, that will be published simultaneously by Melville House on May 15, 2007 in the first two-book story-collection/novel debut since Ann Beattie in 1976. Tao is also the author of a poetry collection, YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM, which was a bestseller (#4).

Tao Lin is a poetry editor for 3 am magazine. Tao's writing has been published by Noon, Nerve, Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review, Other Voices, Fourteen Hills, Punk Planet, Mipoesias, Spork, and Largeheartedboy.

SELECTED PRESS

Review, EEEEE EEE EEEE in Bookslut
Review, EEEEE EEE EEEE/BED in Time Out Chicago
Review, YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM on Bookslut
Review, YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM in Time Out Chicago

Interview, Redivider
Interview, Bat Segundo (Podcast)
Interview, Publisher's Weekly
Interview, Bookslut
Interview, Litpark

Feature, Time Out New York
Feature, Hyphen Magazine

SELECTED LITERATURE

Poem, "I'm Going To Touch You Very Hard"
Poem, "A Poem Written By A Bear"
Poem, "Some Of My Happiest Moments In Life Occur On AOL Instant Messenger"
Poem, "The MFA in Hamsters"
Poem, "I Went Fishing With My Family When I Was Five"
Poem, "Ugly Fish Poem, Part One"

Story, "Sex After Not Seeing Each Other For A Few Days"
Story, "Exactly What I Want"
Story, "Should"
Story, "Richie"
Story, "Go To The Beach"

Essay, Eeeee Eee Eeee (Largeheartedboy's Booknotes)
Essay, Bed (Largeheartedboy's Booknotes)
Essay, Cho Seung-Hui
Essay, The Pros And Cons Of The Internet

AWARDS

One Story's 2004 Short Story contest
Action Books' 2005 December Prize
New York University's 2005 Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize

SELECTED "CONTROVERSY"

Tao Lin posted his entire correspondence with Kevin Sampsell after Kevin Sampsell canceled the publication of Tao Lin's chapbook. Noah Cicero commented.

Tao Lin doesn't exist.

Tao Lin submitted the same story to more than one magazine and made a post called "Anti-Tao Lin Email" (in reference to a mass email that was circulating among editors saying something to the effect that Tao Lin had submitted the same story to more than one magazine) which recieved 100 comments and was shit-talked by Gawker.

SELECTED YOUTUBE