Lidia Yuknavitch and Chiasmus Press

When I wrote O Fallen Angel, I sent it (solely) to Lidia Yuknavitch's Chiasmus Press, because I remembered, vividly, reading her story "Loving Dora" (soon to be a novel out at Hawthorne Press) and thought if anyone would publish this weird, violent text by an unpublished writer, she would. She did. She was also, one of the very very few, for many years, who encouraged me to continue submitting my novel Green Girl, even after it was rejected countless times (like, at least a 100 times, and she was one of two people I emailed, panicked and sobbing, after a rock star woman writer I had asked to consider blurbing the book begged me not to publish Green Girl, as it was readying to press, telling me it was too raw/green/not a novel. Fuck 'em Lidia said, maybe not those exact words, but in other words.) Lidia's voice and vision for texts that are non-market forms, that habitate in the margins, is absolutely urgent and crucial. She's looking for someone to help her with Chiasmus Press. To work with Lidia would be to work for a true literary insurgent. Here's her call: 

HEY: i got something better than a blow job job.

chiasmus press is slowly unfurling out of hiatus. we have a big idea about our reincarnation and we want you.

YOU
want to run a nationally recognized micro indie press. like head honcho big mamma jamma.

want to work with Lidia Yuknavitch.

want to reinvent online, print publication, and cross genre media projects.

YOU HAVE
big time digital savvy and skills, including web, blog and podcasting.

large experience with alternative press world--all facets.

impeccable literary and media counter culture taste.

crazy good organization skills.

a relentless desire to correct culture.

alternative forms of marketing do not frighten you. in fact, they turn you on.

you have big ideas everyone else thinks are nutso.

it's likely you drink and enter altered states on occasion.

OTHER
compensation negotiable. if you know what "micro indie press" means then you have realistic expectations.

it is not mandatory that you live in Portlandia, though it would be helpful. We have heard of Skype and shit before though, so you know, we are down.

if this is YOU, send a 500 word description detailing your experience and desire and why we should pick YOU to: lidiamiles@yahoo.com by April 15.

yes, really.

please share flagrantly and without apology