Author and Artist Brandon Graham with Jamie Thome

To receive updates on when our ABH Conversations are available, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://artistsbookhouse.org/newsletter

For this ABH Conversation, Jamie Lou Thome talked with Brandon Graham about writing, making art, raising children, and life in general.

A transient Southerner by birth and heritage, Brandon Graham has lived, worked, and studied in eight different states and four different countries. He eventually settled near Chicago where he studied visual and written narrative for his MFA at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts.

If one belief has latched itself securely to his core during his travels, it is that narrative is the most powerful bridge across social, intellectual, emotional and geographic distances.

Brandon’s first short story was published in the journal Pleiades in 1990. Since then he has written for performance, artist’s books, book reviews, web content, mail art and many many zines. He has continued to publish poems and prose in literary journals, including the recent story Razed published in the experimental journal Little Bang. His books are included in several dozen special collections libraries throughout the United States including Yale, UCLA, Otis College of Art and Design, Emory University, and Ringling School of Design. In the past few years his book How To Gut A Fish was reviewed in The Blue Notebook, an art journal produced in London, England; and two of his visual books received awards at the International Book Arts Exhibition in Seoul South Korea.

His novels include Good For Nothing, Missing People, and Half Dead.

Brandon continues to make art and write in Missouri, where he lives with his lovely wife, several cats, and the occasional returning adult child.

Artists Book House Conversations are bite-sized video conversations between host Jamie Lou Thome and various book artists, illustrators, cartoonists, writers, poets, librarians and book collectors.

ABH Conversations support our goal to present our community with regular, fascinating conversations with artists, writer, and change makers. This effort also allows us too deepen our connection to our community, both here in the Chicagoland area and all around the globe.

If you would like to view previous Quarantours, please visit the Conversations page on the Artists Book House website or our YouTube channel. http://www.artistsbookhouse.org/conve...

And, if you like programming like this and would like to see more from Artists Book House, consider donating today by visiting www.artistsbookhouse.org/donate Thanks for watching!

*ABH Theme Song by https://www.justinrobertsmusic.com/