{"title":"Jeff Burk","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeff Burk (born June 6, 1984, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a Portland-based author and editor of bizarro and horror fiction. He studied political science, sociology, and history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania before moving into Portland's bizarro publishing scene, where he spent a decade at Eraserhead Press, from 2009 to 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is best known for the cult novel \u003cem\u003eShatnerquake\u003c\/em\u003e (Eraserhead Press, 2009), in which the actor William Shatner is pulled into a convention reality and hunted by every character he has ever played. Across his Eraserhead years he wrote \u003cem\u003eSuper Giant Monster Time!\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), the collection \u003cem\u003eCripple Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and \u003cem\u003eShatnerquest\u003c\/em\u003e (2013); edited the quarterly \u003cem\u003eMagazine of Bizarro Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e; and ran the press's cult-horror imprint, Deadite Press, as head editor, overseeing more than 100 titles before departing in 2019. His 2018 collection \u003cem\u003eThe Very Ineffective Haunted House and Other Strange and Stupid Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Clash Books, was nominated for the Splatterpunk Award for Best Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis connection to the Journal of Experimental Fiction is a single issue. Burk co-edited \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/products\/bizarro-fiction-journal-of-experimental-fiction-37\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2010) with founder Eckhard Gerdes, a 106-page anthology that brought the Portland bizarro circle, including Mykle Hansen, Gina Ranalli, Steve Aylett, Kevin L. Donihe, Cameron Pierce, and Forrest Armstrong, into JEF's frame for one volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart with \u003cem\u003eBizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37\u003c\/em\u003e, the issue where the bizarro scene and JEF met.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bizarro-fiction-journal-of-experimental-fiction-37","title":"Bizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37\u003c\/em\u003e is the issue where the Portland bizarro scene crossed into JEF. Jeff Burk co-edited it with founder Eckhard Gerdes, importing a whole circle of writers for one volume. The table of contents is the point. Contributors include Mykle Hansen, Gina Ranalli, Steve Aylett, Kevin L. Donihe, Forrest Armstrong, Cameron Pierce, Grant Wamack, Matt Betts, and Dameion Becknell, names from the Eraserhead Press orbit that Burk knew from the inside. The selection is bizarro on JEF letterhead, for one issue: a guest-editor's view of where his catalog and the press's experimental list overlapped at the start of the 2010s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeff Burk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39350600073373,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8480\/5533\/products\/bizarro-fiction-journal-of-experimental-fiction-37.png?v=1641450616"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/collections\/jeff-burk\/anthology.oembed","provider":"The Journal of Experimental Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}