The
short story:
Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels,
books, television, and urban life for Jane,
Print, New York, Nylon, Radar,
the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon,
Plenty, Nextbook, Time
Out NY, eWeek, and
others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Pindeldyboz,
Spork, and Bullfight
Review. She recently appeared in the anthologies Sex for America, Future Misbehavior
The long version:
Jami believes in the power and importance of independent publishing and self-publication, whether online or in print. She has been published by a number of zines, and her chapbook, DELI LIFE, was published by Austin upstart So New Media in 2003. INSTANT LOVE was originally a zine series which she sold primarily on her website, whatever-whenever.net. Her site has been in existence in various forms since 1998.
Jami
has lived in the following cities: Buffalo Grove, IL (where she established
herself amongst her peers as "the kind of girl who wears black a lot"
and "always has her head in a book" and is "kind of cranky."); Ithaca,
NY (summer school program for geeks, in case you hadn't figured out she
was a geek yet); Baltimore, MD (where she got a degree from Johns Hopkins
University in Writing Seminars); Norwich, UK (where she smoked a lot of
hash); Fairfax, VA (where she worked as a hostess at a Ruby
Tuesday's in a mall); Tampa, FL (where she bartended at a lesbian bar
on Pass-A-Grille Beach and worked on a NOW march); Washington,
DC (where she waited tables at Polly's Cafe on U Street and lived for
a six months in a room that had a gigantic hole in the floor); Seattle,
WA (where she worked in a nursing home and performed awful erotic poetry
in cafes); the East Village of New York City (interactive advertising work,
eight years and counting); Napa, CA (where she wrote INSTANT LOVE), and
finally Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
So if you think you've met her before,
you're probably right.