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Greg Bottoms is an essayist, story writer, and critic. He is the author of a memoir, Angelhead- My Brother's Descent into Madness, two books of narrative essays about American self-taught religious artists, The Colorful Apocalypse- Journeys in Outsider Art and Spiritual American Trash- Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith, and three genre-blurring collections of autobiographical short prose, Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks, Fight Scenes, and Swallowing the Past. He is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where he teaches creative writing.
Praise for Pitiful Criminals By turns evocatively understated and rapturously outrageous, Pitiful Criminals is a collision of memory and fiction that compassionately reminds us what makes us human, what makes us stupid, what makes us genuinely abhorrent, and why we are sometimes still worth loving nevertheless. --John D'Agata, author of About a Mountain and Lifespan of a Fact Praise for Greg Bottoms The line between fact and fiction is often blurred in Greg Bottoms's collection of short stories...but one thing is clear: Bottoms writes about people and places for which he has a wonderful sense of understanding and compassion. -- San Francisco Chronicle [Bottoms's writing is invested] not with distance but with an unbearable intimacy. Everything matters, is what he means to tell us, and yet we can never understand what it all means. -- David Ulin, The Los Angeles Times
