Paul A. Toth

Paul A. Toth is a fiction writer and poet who lives in Florida. He is the author of four novels, Fizz (Bleak House Books, 2004) Fishnet (Bleak House Books, 2005), Finale (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2009), and Airplane Novel (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2011). Toth's short stories, poems, multimedia pieces, and other work can be accessed from (these links). His work has appeared in numerous publications and websites, including The Adirondack Review, The Plum Ruby Review, The Blue Moon Review, The Barcelona Review, Mississippi Review Online,Nuvein Magazine, and Blue Lake Review. Toth also served as an assistant fiction editor for storySouth, Small Spiral Notebook, and Mad Hatters' Review.

Born in 1964, Toth was raised in Flint, Michigan, a once-thriving "GM town" that was, by the time of Toth's elementary school years, beginning to disintegrate. Eventually, GM would provide less and less a basis for the city's existence, creating an economic void that has yet to be filled. Growing up in the Vietnam and Watergate era, Toth's earliest years involved bouts with the obsessional end of OCD as well as unexplainable depressions that intensified with age. These symptoms were often confused with bipolar disorder, leading to an array of approaches and solutions that inevitably failed. When college proved an intermittent and disappointing affair, Toth began traveling, eventually living in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Denver, and various locations in Florida. Through his late thirties and forties, Toth decided to complete his BA and then pursue an MA at Gonzaga University. Along the way, he found relief in the works of Jim Thompson, Samuel Beckett, J.G. Ballard, W.G. Sebald, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, and the Greek tragedians. His thinking has been influenced by the likes of George Bataille, Guy Debord, Henri Bergson, Montaigne, Marcel Duchamp, and many others. In addition, Toth’s “The Kind of Girl You Read About in New Wave Magazines” won an &NOW award in 2009 and was published in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Toth also participated in the annual &NOW Festival of New Writing.

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