Howard Junker

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Howard Junker is a writer and the founder and editor of ZYZZYVA: West Coast Writers & Artists.

Howard Junker was born in Port Washington, New York, and was educated at Horace Greeley, Canterbury, Amherst, Stanford and the University of San Francisco. He served in the Naval Air Reserve as an anti-submarine warfare technician and wrote for many magazines, including Architectural Digest, Art in America, Artforum, Esquire, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Harper's Bazaar, The Nation, The New Republic, New York, Newsweek, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Vogue. He also worked as a documentary filmmaker, a television producer, a P.R. flack, a construction carpenter, a fondue cook, and a junior high school science teacher. He appeared in the films The Werewolf of Washington and I Am A Sex Addict. He recently made his YouTube debut covering Satisfaction. He founded ZYZZYVA, a journal for West Coast writers and artists, in 1985, and has edited five anthologies of work from its pages, most recently, AutoBioDiversity as well as four ZYZZYVA first novels and three ZYZZYVA first collections of poems. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their daughter, a junior in college in Washington, D.C.

[edit] Selected bibliography

Junker, H. (1991). Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays By West Coast Writers. San Francisco: Mercury House. ISBN 9781562790141.
Junker, H. (1995). The Writer's Notebook. San Francisco: HarperCollinsWest. ISBN 9780062586186.
Junker, H. (1995). Strange Attraction: The Best of Ten Years of ZYZZYVA. Reno: University of Nevada Press. ISBN 9780874172751.
Junker, H. (1999). Lucky Break: How I Became A Writer. Berkeley, CA: Heyday. ISBN 9780325001562.
Junker, H. (2005). AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from ZYZZYVA. Berkeley, CA: Heyday. ISBN 9781597140072.