Grace Krilanovich is an American author. Her first novel, The Orange Eats Creeps was published by Two Dollar Radio

Two Dollar Radio

Two Dollar Radio is an independent publishing house based in Columbus, Ohio, also known as The Two Dollar Radio Movement. The company was founded in 2005 by husband and wife team Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood, with Brian Obenauf. Emily Pullen joined the publishing house as an editor and outreach...

 in September 2010. It was selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year

Amazon's Best Books of the Year

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 (2010) in the category of Science Fiction & Fantasy and was named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by Shelf Unbound.

In October 2010, she was selected as a National Book Foundation

National Book Foundation

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 2010 "5 Under 35" Honoree, selected by Scott Spencer

Scott Spencer

Scott Spencer may refer to:* Scott Spencer , novelist who wrote Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper* Scott A. Spencer , American abstract painter* Scott Spencer , English footballer playing for Hyde F.C....

, Fiction Finalist for A Ship Made of Paper, 2003; Fiction Finalist for Endless Love, 1980 and 1981.

Biography

Grace Krilanovich moved to the Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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 area from Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

, California

California

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 in 2003. She attended San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...

 for her undergraduate studies, where she received a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 degree in American Studies

American studies

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. She then went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 in Writing

Writing

Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.Writing most likely...

 at the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

, where she graduated in 2005. She currently works at The Los Angeles Times.

Work

Excerpts from The Orange Eats Creeps appeared in Issue 3 and Issue 7 of Black Clock

Black Clock

Black Clock is an American literary magazine. Edited by Steve Erickson and published bi-annually by CalArts in association with the MFA Writing Program, the magazine is "dedicated to fiction, poetry and creative essays that explore the frontier territory of constructive anarchy." According to the...

. Her essay on the subject of shock rocker GG Allin

GG Allin

Kevin Michael "GG" Allin was an American punk rock singer-songwriter, who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. GG Allin is perhaps best remembered for his notorious live performances, which often featured transgressive acts, including coprophagia, self-mutilation, and...

 and Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....

 singer Grace Slick

Grace Slick

Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...

 appeared in Issue 4: "Guilty Pleasures & Lost Causes." Krilanovich is named after Slick.

Black Clock

Black Clock

Black Clock is an American literary magazine. Edited by Steve Erickson and published bi-annually by CalArts in association with the MFA Writing Program, the magazine is "dedicated to fiction, poetry and creative essays that explore the frontier territory of constructive anarchy." According to the...

editor, novelist Steve Erickson

Steve Erickson

Stephen Michael Erickson is an American novelist, essayist and film critic. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's Award in Literature and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation., and is considered an important representative of the Avantpop...

 also wrote the introduction to The Orange Eats Creeps.

The artwork of Mat Brinkman

Mat Brinkman

Mat Brinkman is an artist and electronic musician from Texas. He was a creator of the Fort Thunder artist live-work space in Providence, RI. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer and Forcefield, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial...

 appears on the cover and opposite the title page of The Orange Eats Creeps.

Krilanovich has been a MacDowell Colony

MacDowell Colony

The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...

fellow, and was a finalist for the 2009 Starcherone Prize.

External links

• http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35.html
• http://twodollarradio.com
• http://www.cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=1679666
• http://www.cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=1694101
• http://www.hobartpulp.com/website/october/krilanovich.html
• http://www.myspace.com/cloudeyesmusic
• http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/5-recent-reads-with-grace-krilanovich
• http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2010/09/book_notes_grac.html
• http://twodollarradio.blogspot.com/2010/08/grace-krilanovich-qa-with-editor.html