Daniel Grandbois is the author of the Indie Next Notable Book and Believer Book Award Reader Survey Selection Unlucky Lucky Days (BOA Editions, 2008); the art novel The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir (Green Integer, 2010), illustrated by Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya (Argentina); and the prose poetry omnibus Unlucky Lucky Tales (Texas Tech University Press, 2012), illustrated by Fidel Sclavo (Uruguay). His literary body of work often includes collaborations across the Americas, showcasing extraordinary visual artists of Latin America. Daniel holds an MFA in poetry from Bennington College, lives in Colorado and tours extensively in Europe and North America with the band Slim Cessna's Auto Club.QUICK PRAISE FOR THE BOOKS:"These are works of surpassing literary merit... some of the most inventive, restless and creative fiction I have read in the last five years. [They] sustain contemporary American fiction, even rehabilitate it, and to have all these works in one place for readers of the future is to do a good thing for all who care about the condition of prose writing in North America." -RICK MOODY"Reading [Unlucky Lucky Tales], I think of the great jazz improvisers or Angela Hewitt's version of Bach's "Goldberg Variations." Here is a plenitude, a world of effects and inventions, from a fine and mentally agile writer... This is a book of imagination's plenty. Ultimately, it is a book of wonder and delight. -ED OCHESTER"Perhaps Daniel Grandbois is the love child of Rod Serling, HP Lovecraft, and Russell Edson. His prose poems hybridize shards of folk tale, sci fi, wacky animism, derailed creation myths, and surreal apocalypse... Kiss conventional reality goodbye and prepare to have your brain rearranged, to enter a realm in which scintillating, nonstop invention is god." -AMY GERSTLER"One is tempted to look for precedents to his odd surrealism and verbal pranks, but it's clear Grandbois has staked out his own territory, one peopled with offbeat characters and varied discourses... The wise fool, an old conceit of literature, resurfaces, and he is of course Grandbois himself." -PETER JOHNSON"Singularly original and captivating... an important work of fiction that should transform what notions of fiction may currently exist." -LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ"These are funny, bizarre, moving stories--a pleasure to read." -LYDIA DAVIS"[A] modern space-time set of interconnected myths and stories... startling sets of shape shiftings and melting tableaus... elegantly precise... graceful... a work of art." -ED SANDERS"[A] collage of satire and slapstick, allegory and hallucination... an 'art novel' in the fullest sense." -MARGUERITE FEITLOWITZ"A celebration of language in its purest form, exactly what poetry itself was supposed to be."-BEST EXPERIMENTAL BOOK Listing 2008, CCLaP (Chicago Center for Literature & Photography)"A must read for anyone who cares about the future of American Literature." -DOUG MARTIN"In a folklore-like fugue that resembles a darkly humorous Jorge Luis Borges or Italo Calvino, Grandbois... use[s] everything from animals to sentient pieces of paper to illustrate metaphysically dizzying truths about the world." -THE ONION"Grandbois's stories are tiny and explosive, like a violent series of sneezes... This is avant-garde stand-up, right down to the punch lines flashing and fritzing like short-circuited bulbs at the end of his paragraphs." -JACKET MAGAZINE"In his debut assortment of fabulist flash fiction, Grandbois delights us in small, with his chiseled prismatic shards." -RAIN TAXI"Animated by a wonderfully droll and fantastical imagination, these little stories are delicious." -RIKKI DUCORNET"A report from another world... [W]e are reminded of why we read fiction in the first place: to gain access to the wonderful peculiarities of the author's mind." -JEFF VANDERMEER (Amazon Daily Blog)"Grandbois is a master of the double-edged word, of stories that both cut through the world like butter and double-back to saw themselves to bits." -BRIAN EVENSON"Daniel Grandbois's trembling leaflets bring to life all the rejecta and detritus scattered in such silent and secretive array around us, recovering all we thought lost or dead." -ELENI SIKELIANOSQUICK PRAISE FOR THE BAND:SPIN MAGAZINE ONLINE"...the best band at SXSW was Slim Cessna's Auto Club..."ROLLING STONE, GERMANY"What energy and soul!"SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"Twice the power and energy of those Nick Cave shows."PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY"Truly an original, this band can go uptempo, downtempo and straight off into the stratosphere."GADFLY MAGAZINE"For years, the Auto Club has been considered the best live band in Denver. Hell, they might be the best band in America as well!"THE ONION"One of the most entertaining acts in Denver history."SPLENDID MAGAZINE"They're gradually staking their a claim as one of the era's greatest bands. Their recognition of country's roots, their spectacular musicianship, their willingness to experiment and their unmatched ability to craft unique, convincing narratives about characters who exist at the edges of our national consciousness come together to make music that is truly stunning, and that you won't find anywhere else."