russell bittner Profile

Russell lives in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have been published on paper by: The American Dissident; The Blind Man’s Rainbow; The Lyric; The Barbaric Yawp; the International Journal of Erotica; and Wicked Hollow. Three other poems will appear in early 2006 in N.O.L.A. Spleen, in The Taj Mahal Review, and in Æsthetica. On-line, his poetry can be found at: Quintessence; ken*again; SpillwayReview; Erotica Readers and Writers; EdificeWrecked; GirlsWithInsurance; ThievesJargon; SalomeMagazine; LauraHird; MadHattersReview; ALongStoryShort; OpiumMagazine; SouthernHum; JustusRoux; DifferentVoices; VoidMagazine; Mindfire; PWReview; Zygote in my Coffee; ALittlePoetry; and PlumBiscuit (a journal of the New York Writers Guild). Others are scheduled to appear in 2006 at 3 a.m., at theBreath and at TheCentrifugalEye (in February); and monthly through September at ALongStoryShort.net. On paper, he currently has stories with the Edgar Literary Magazine; The International Journal of Erotica; and Beyond Centauri. In the dot.com world, his prose can be found at: DeadMule; writeThis; GirlsWithInsurance; SkiveMagazine; Bluefood; ThievesJargon; Quintessence; MannequinEnvy; UndergroundVoices; Pindeldyboz; Hackwriters; 10,000 Monkeys; DeadDrunkDublin; ALongStoryShort; SouthernHum; SuffolkPunch; VoidMagazine and the uncom.mon Yankeepotroast.org. One additional piece will appear in February, 2006 at SwillMag.com. Russell completed his first novel, Trompe-l’oeil, in September of 2004. The first chapter will appear in Snow Monkey in February, 2006. He completed a second, much shorter novel-memoir, Girl from Baku, in June of 2005. The first six chapters of it are currently posted at DeadDrunkDublin.com, and serialization of the entire piece will begin with the June ’06 issue of Dispatch Litareview.com. Both, in the meantime, are going through agents faster than a greyhound goes through giblets.