Lynne Tillman,

Writer, Teacher

“Tillman tackles issues on her terms, freshly reshaping traditional literary forms,” said Booklist. She has crossed and recrossed the lines between fiction and criticism often, as in This Is Not It: Stories by Lynne Tillman, published by D.A.P. in 2002. Tillman is the author of the novels Haunted Houses, Motion Sickness, Cast in Doubt, No Lease on Life, and American Genius, A Comedy; and the story collections Absence Makes the Heart; The Madame Realism Complex, and Someday This Will Be Funny . Her non-fiction books are The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-1967; The Broad Picture; and Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. She writes regularly on art, books, and culture, and contributes frequently to artists’ books and museum catalogues.

Education:

• Hunter College, B.A.

Teaching experience includes:

• Professor/Writer in Residence, The University at Albany, Spring 2002 -
• Faculty, The New School Writing Department 2005 -
• Co-Head, Writing Department, The Milton Avery MFA Program, Bard College (1993- 2003)

Contributing editor:

• Fiction editor, FENCE magazine
• Contributing editor, BOMB

Other publications:

Short fiction, criticism (selected):

• BOMB
• Aperature
• Bookforum
• Art In America
• Village Voice
• Artforum
• Frieze (UK),
• New York Times Book Review

Awards and honors:

• Fellowship, JohnSimon Guggenheim Foundation 2006
• NYSCA, Jerome Foundation and NYFA grants 1983; 1987