Gordon Jay Lish

Gordon Lish was one of the most influential editors of publications and critics credit him for promoting new aesthetic movements in contemporary fiction. In his short stories, which he uses a number of innovative narrative styles, often to abandon traditional forms of narrative in favor of a series of metafictional techniques.

Born in Hewlett, New York, in adolescence Lish was treated in a psychiatric institution in hypermania. During his rehabilitation, as well as met Lish poet Hayden Carruth, who was to be a major influence on his writing. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English with honors from ...