Todd Brendan Fahey

"Resides in Lafayette, Louisiana, and is currently a Teaching Fellow in the doctoral-level Creative Writing Program at University of Southwestern Louisiana. He holds a Master's degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, and has published work in Utah Holiday , High Times , Fling , InterText , Riverwind , Ellipsis , Beat Scene Magazine (UK), and George Garrett's Poultry: A Magazine of Voice . As an active participant in the little magazine arena, he also edits and publishes Far Gone ." (in Circuit Traces , 1.4, September/October 1995).

"I've been writing a goddamned long time. I wrote my first book-length nonfiction 'novel' -- a thing called Hell Bottled Up!: Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister -- in 1988, in my first semester at USC. Wrote it in a white-heat in six months, basically smashed on acid. Hell Bottled Up! is an autobiographical novel centering on my two violent years as a right-wing activist in Arizona, during the heyday of Governor Evan Mecham and a revival of the John Birch Society. You drop the name Todd Brendan Fahey around certain circles in Arizona today and you better watch your back. Oh... I've lived a really weird life. I became acquainted with conspiracy theory through the John Birch Society in 1984 and am credited with founding the first-ever college chapter of the JBS. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. But I was also a terrible drunk and was more than a little curious about psychedelics. Plus, I was a slut." --Todd Brendan Fahey (in Carbon 14 ).

Author of the controversial Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel .

"A collection of Fahey's short fiction, Dogshit Park & other atrocities: Stories , will appear early 1997. He is currently at work on second novel, A String of Saturdays , and would still enjoy the opportunity of publishing through a recognized press off the beaten path." [publisher's bumpf, Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel , 1996]