About the Author

J. J. Anselmi teaches undergraduate writing at CSU Fresno, and also works as the assistant nonfiction editor of The Normal School. His work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Jackson Hole Review, and The Writing Disorder. He lives in Fresno, CA.

Reviews

"Heavy has a grainy, thrash-music quality to it. On its surface, Anselmi's story is that of an angry, white-trash kid (he admits this in his book) who never had the chance to fall from grace because grace never lifted him that high; beneath that it's a book about control, and why destruction equals power for those who feel powerless." --The Paris Review