Corey Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Turnrow, Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, Paumanok Review, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, Elimae, H_NGM_N, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Poet Lore, Forklift OH, Euphony, Rattle, Jabberwock Review, Dicey Brown, Cordite, Cellar Door, and others.
His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published by Livingston Press in 2002. His new novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is also from Livingston Press. He has also published 5 chapbooks in 2006, with 2 more due in 2007. His poem, “Sweet Annie Divine,” was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac.
He has been a book reviewer, fiction editor, university press sales rep, grant committee judge, father and son. With his wife he owns Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.