Howard Junker
Howard Junker founded ZYZZYVA, a literary magazine, in 1985 and retired in 2010. Then he composed a meta-memoir derived from five years of his daily blog, An Old Junker, now lamentably out of print. He was educated at Horace Greeley, Canterbury, Amherst, NYU, Stanford, and the University of San Francisco. His pre-editorial career was checkered in the classic sense: he taught ancient and modern history at Canterbury, his own prep school; apprenticed in documentary film; served in the Naval Air...See more
Howard Junker founded ZYZZYVA, a literary magazine, in 1985 and retired in 2010. Then he composed a meta-memoir derived from five years of his daily blog, An Old Junker, now lamentably out of print. He was educated at Horace Greeley, Canterbury, Amherst, NYU, Stanford, and the University of San Francisco. His pre-editorial career was checkered in the classic sense: he taught ancient and modern history at Canterbury, his own prep school; apprenticed in documentary film; served in the Naval Air Reserve as an antisubmarine warfare technician; freelanced for magazines (Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, The Nation); worked at Newsweek as an arts writer; tried out (and failed) as a television producer; became an apprentice carpenter in Local 22; tried (and failed) as a contractor; taught junior high school science and English, as well as high school biology, advanced biology, and world history-and coached varsity soccer-at a fourth-rate "preparatory" school in San Francisco; served as public affairs coordinator at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, and, at the same time, one night a week, taught creative writing for Santa Rosa Junior College Extension in Sonoma. Then, he cooked fondue at a Danish restaurant; did stints as a flack; and, finally, served as a technical editor at Bechtel, the giant engineering and construction company. See less