Steve Schlam

STEVE SCHLAM first gained entrance to the City of Words through the doors of the public library in Brooklyn, NY, where he was born and spent a good portion of his childhood, and has maintained his residence ever since while living in cities and towns across the United States and in Mexico. An actor as well as an author, he has performed on stages in all the places he has called home, and earned an MA in Creative Writing under the tutelage of Joseph Heller, renowned author of "Catch-22." His debut novel, "The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane," was published in 2024; it was subsequently longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Disquiet International Prize for Fiction, and is currently on the short list for the Chanticleer International Somerset Award for Literary and Contemporary Fiction. He can be found these days in sunny Southern California, in a pretty little Craftsman bungalow with citrus trees growing in the backyard.