Is Greater Than was an eclectic online magazine that ran from 2007-2011, devoted to the unique, the unknown and the amazing in contemporary culture. Based out of Austin TX, Chicago IL, and San Francisco CA, we published fiction, creative nonfiction, articles and columns by emerging talent around the country (and the world).
Our scope ranged from literature to speculative fiction and personal narratives to intimate reportage. Is Greater Than published a new work of fiction and a new work of narrative nonfiction every week, in addition to serialized comics and columns that cover topics as varied as art and design, independent music, cult film, and emerging and outsider literature.
Paul M. Davis is an Austin-based writer, editor and musician obsessed with the politics and culture of technology, social movements, music, books, art and comedy. He edits science, tech and gov 2.0 for Shareable. His personal site can be found at www.paulmdavis.com, and he blogs at 12 Pt. Plan.
Brigid Barry is a freelance editor based in San Francisco, CA. She also writes short fiction and cultural analysis, and knits in her spare time.
G.M. Levinson is the guy behind the Book Bike and the antibookclub. As a producer, Gabe created The John & Bill Show (2007) and organized the test screening of Idiots & Angels.
Laura Pearson is a Chicago-based writer and editor specializing in arts and culture reporting. She has contributed to Time Out Chicago, Chicago Reader, Punk Planet, Proximity, Gapers Block, and other publications. She is also Artist Story Coordinator for Chicago Artists Resource. As this blog (http://ourpresentworld.blogspot.com/) suggests, she is mostly into the kinds of things grandparents are into: meals, trips, trees, and making observations about the weather. Her website can be found at laura-pearson.net
Leland Cheuk is a currently an MFA candidate at Lesley University’s Creative Writing program. His writing has appeared in MostlyFiction, Punk Planet, and other publications. Recently, one of his short stories was selected as finalist in the 2007 Washington Square Review Contest. He lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel.
Leilani Clark writes, copy-edits, teaches and plays music in Santa Rosa, California. She blogs about books, music, culture and DIY radness at www.leilaniclark.com.
Lynette D’Amico is a recent transplant to Chicago from Minneapolis where she was an advertising copywriter and there were always more ideas. In Chicago she keeps her best ideas for her own damn work.
Levi Fuller makes and compiles music in Seattle, Washington. He has released three solo albums and 18 volumes of the compilation series Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly, and played in myriad bands. Levi writes a weekly series of blog posts for KEXP involving album covers. He also has a day job at a fantastic non-profit organization and designs and prints the occasional album cover or rock show poster. Sometimes he sleeps. www.denimclature.com
Matt Gajewski is a 24 year old native of Madison, WI who currently lives in Miami. He is the creator of Pure Imagination, a radio series featuring original short stories set to music by (mostly) Miami-based composers. All old episodes can be found at www.vangloria.net/pureimagination.
Cat Johnson is the publisher of House of Cat, a music, art and culture blog. She also contributes to several websites including JamBase, Streetlight Records and Is Greater Than. She is currently planning the takeover of her own life.
Janina A. Larenas is a printmaker and food writer living in Santa Cruz, California. She works as a book buyer for a local independent bookstore, and spends her time making anything and everything she can by hand and from scratch. You can see her food writing at www.littleisobel.com/bramblings.
Laura M. Browning is a Chicago-based freelance writer and editor who has worked for art museums, an encyclopedia, and an environmental organization. She loves writing letters the old-fashioned way, finding art in unexpected places, and the serial comma. You can follow her work at artcanthurtyou.com.
R. John Xerxes is a freelance librarian who will answer reference questions if asked nicely and paid for his time. He also runs Love Bunni Press which has been photocopying paper since 1988. He lives in San Francisco and blogs about it at Love Bunni Press West Coast. He watches too many movies for his own good.
Michael Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is a co-founder and was fiction editor for MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine (2003-2009). He has produced and written for comedy revues at Second City’s Donny’s Skybox, The Viaduct, The Trap Door Theater, and the Apollo Theater Chicago. He is also a 2008 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient for Prose. Currently, he is working on a novel entitled Children of Orleans.
Contributors Past and Present
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