Melvin Jules Bukiet

Melvin Jules Bukiet is the author of four novels (Sandman's Dust, After, Signs and Wonders and Strange Fire), three collections (Stories of an Imaginary Childhood, While the Messiah Tarries, and A Faker's Dozen) and one young adult novel (Undertown). He is also the author of one play (Runts) and the editor of three anthologies (Neurotica, Nothing Makes you Free and Scribblers on the Roof).

His stories have appeared in The Paris Review (three times) and other magazines, his essays in The American Scholar (five times) and other magazines. He has reviewed (primarily international fiction) for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers. He has written Op-Eds for the NY Times and other newspapers. His fiction has been republished in the Oxford Book of Jewish Short Stories, the Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature, Killing the Buddha and other anthologies. His work has been translated into eight languages (that he knows of).

He has read at the 92nd St. Y, the United Nations, Yale, Columbia Princeton and elsewhere. He is also the founder of the KGB Reading Series.

He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.