Slimming Down and Other Stories (ePub)

Alex Shishin has published fiction, non-fiction and photography in Japan, North America, and Europe in print and online. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Shishin is a permanent resident of Japan.

Shishin is the author "Nippon 2357:A Utopian Ecological Tale," and five other ebooks published exclusively by Smashwords and available for free. He is co-author with Stephan F. Politzer of "Four Parallel Lives of Eight Notable Individuals," also published by Smashwords.

Shishin's short story "Mr. Eggplant Goes Home," first published in "Prairie Schooner" received an O. Henry Award Honorable Mention and was anthologized in "Student Body: Stories About Students and Professors" (University of Wisconsin Press). His short story "Shades," originally published in "Sunday Afternoon" (Kobe) was anthologized in The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press) and reprinted by invitation in "The East" (Tokyo).

Shishin's book "Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era" (a Russian-American memoir of a train odyssey through the Soviet Union and Poland) was published by iUniverse. It is available as a print-on-demand book and an ebook.

Shishin has also published a collection of photographs entitled "Ordinary Strangeness" with Viovio in conjunction with his joint exhibition at the Twenty-first Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan. It is available from the publisher online.

Alex Shishin holds degrees in English from the University of California, Berkeley (BA, Phi Beta Kappa) the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MFA) and the Union Institute and University (PhD).

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