Rick Rofihe
Encyclopedia
Rick Rofihe is a Canadian American short story writer, and editor
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He founded the literary journal Anderbo
He has taught fiction-writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and in the MFA program at Columbia University
. He now teaches privately in New York City.
He judges the annual RRofihe Trophy short-story contest for Open City Magazine & Books.
—Bruce Allen, The New York Times Book Review.
—Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal.
—Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times.
—Michael Darling, Books in Canada.
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
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Life
His work has appeared in The New Yorker Epiphany, Grand Street, Open City, The New York Times, The Village Voice, SPY, The East Hampton Star, and online Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood.He founded the literary journal Anderbo
He has taught fiction-writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and in the MFA program at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. He now teaches privately in New York City.
He judges the annual RRofihe Trophy short-story contest for Open City Magazine & Books.
Works
- Fresh Grease: New Writing from the Maritimes (Publisher) Straw Books, 1971
- Gushy & Gooey and other stuff from the kids of Nova Skotia (Editor) Anderbo Books, 1971 & 1973
- Such a neat idea, Nova Scotia people, poems and stories (Editor) Anderbo Books, 1973
Reviews
These surgically precise slices of intelligent life are distinguished by virtuosic phrase-making and fetchingly off-beat specifics.
—Bruce Allen, The New York Times Book Review.
Mr. Rofihe can be surprisingly effective, with a quirky tenderness. Oddly touching, the interest here lies not in the stories’ mundane incidents, but in things barely hinted at: beneath this calm surface, powerful currents flow.
—Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal.
Rick Rofihe’s stories have bulging motor nerves and threadlike muscles. They are contour almost without mass; lines of fierce magnetic energy with only a dusting of iron fillings to reveal their course. They are elusive, but not in the sense of escaping us. It is more as if we are unable to find them, and then they spring out at us; we are not sure from where.
—Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times.
The narratives weave toward minor epiphanies, backing and filling, curving around their characters with a seeming lack of coherence—yet they are strangely compelling, as the refusal to make plain their meanings gives more depth to implication.
—Michael Darling, Books in Canada.