BIOGRAPHY WITH CYBER FOOTNOTES

Born in Santa Fe (1), New Mexico during the "crossfire hurricane" (2) year of 1968 (3), Mitch Cullin is the author of seven acclaimed books, including the novel-in-verse Branches, The Cosmology of Bing, UnderSurface, and the globe-spanning story collection From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest (4). His lastest effort, A Slight Trick of the Mind (5), is under option from the Focus Features/This Is That production team (6) that made The Ice Storm, American Splendor, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Door in the Floor, with a screenplay adaptation by playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (7). The film version of his novel Tideland (8) was directed by former Monty Pythoner Terry Gilliam (9), produced by Jeremy Thomas (10), and starring Jeff Bridges (11), Janet McTeer (12), and Jennifer Tilly (13). Several of his books are also available or forthcoming in international editions from England, Japan, The Netherlands, Italy, and Greece (14).

With his writing described by the New York Times (15) as "brilliant and beautiful... rhythmic and telling," he has also been the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Dodge Jones Foundation grant; writing sponsorship from Recursos De Santa Fe (16); the Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize (17); a poetry fellowship from The Arizona Commission on the Arts (18); and a nomination for inclusion in the American Library Association's Notable Book List, 1999. (19)

Besides slowly loosing his hair (20) and writing novels in increasingly smaller and expensive apartments throughout southwestern America (21), he is an avid follower of Asian cinema (22), and, when donning his Bloodshot Records baseball cap (23), has cast himself as the official unofficial spokesman for Howe Gelb's legendary Tucson-based band Giant Sand (24). At the moment he currently resides in Arcadia, California (25), where he continues to collaborate in all things with the artist Peter I. Chang (26).

1. Santa Fe:
http://www.santafe.org/

2. "crossfire hurricane":
http://www.sunshine69.com/crossfire_hurricane.html

3. 1968:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/reference/timeline.html

4. Mitch's books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=MITCH%20CULLIN/
103-9896675-6097408

5. A Slight Trick of the Mind:
http://www.randomhouse.com/nanatalese/catalog/display.pperl?0385513283

6. Focus Features:
http://www.focusfeatures.com/home.php

7. Jeffrey Hatcher:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0368774/

8. Tideland movie:
http://www.tidelandthemovie.com/

9. Terry Gilliam:
http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/

10. Jeremy Thomas:
http://www.recordedpicture.com/

11. Jeff Bridges:
http://www.jeffbridges.com/

12. Janet McTeer:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005216/

13. Jennifer Tilly:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000236/

14. International editions:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4047914827/qid%3D1105480508/ref%3Dsr%5F8%5F/
249-2706204-6689966

15. New York Times
http://nytimes.com

16. Recursos De Santa Fe:
http://www.recursos.org/

17. Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize:
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/fiction.nsf

18. Arizona Commission on the Arts:
http://www.arizonaarts.org/

19. American Library Association:
http://www.ala.org/

20. Hair loss:
http://www.ahlc.org/

21. Southwestern America:
http://www.fourcornerssw.com/
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/

22. Asian Cinema:
http://www.kinoasia.com/
http://www.midnighteye.com/index.php

23. Bloodshot Records:
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/

24. Giant Sand:
http://www.giantsand.com/

25. Arcadia:
http://www.ci.arcadia.ca.us/home/index.asp

26. Peter I. Chang:
http://generationrice.com/index.phtml?talk=peterichang_1