Born in Elkins, WV, G. Sutton Breiding lived at Oglebay Park in Wheeling, WV until 1962, in Morgantown, WV from 1962 until 1968, San Francisco, CA from 1968 to 1986. Between 1968 and 1986 he lived in Greenbank, WV during 1971 and in Morgantown WV and near Orono, ME during 1977. He returned to Morgantown WV in 1986, moved to Columbiana, OH in 2007 and returned to Morgantown in 2009.
"He began writing at age fourteen, and in a Catholic high school outraged his teachers with his first newsletter.[3] Breiding's poetry and essays have been featured in Foxfire (magazine), Star*Line, Bleak December, The Romantist, The Diversifier, Nyctalops, Fantôme, Grue, Grue Magazine, and Figment.
He won the 1990 Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem for "Epitaph for Dreams" which first appeared in Narcopolis & Other Poems[4] edited by Peggy Nadramia. His poems were nominated for the Rhysling Award in 1993, 2005, 2011, and 2014.
Sidney-Fryer's introduction to Breiding's Journal of an Astronaut, a 1992 back-to-back publication with Janet Hamill's Nostalgia of the Infinite, describes Breiding's futuristic vision as including "appealing remnants of Appalachian life and such of its wilderness as actually survives, the cicada, the titmouse, the chickadee, the wren, together with the steadfast presence of old barns and old homesteads, as well as rare old stands of trees. His reader experiences a particularly modern sense of dislocation expressed in a particularly modern style." Along with horror, the reader will also experiences "a unique sense of wonder and wonder and marvel and transcendent mystery, as well as a healing sense of wholesomeness of our planet-biosphere and of the very earth itself, the tenderness and even delicacy displayed in the infinitude of green growing things and of the fauna sustained on that flora."[8] Journal of an Astronaut/Nostalgia of the Infinite is listed in the Beat Poetry Collection in the Special Collections and Archives at Utah State University.[9]
Special library collections including his books, correspondence, manuscripts, and zines are held at the University of California at Berkeley,[10] West Virginia University,[11] Utah State University, and the University of Iowa.
Zine Publishing
The Punk-Surrealist Cafe[citation needed] was on display in the October, 2009 exhibition Punk Passage: San Francisco First Wave Punk, a display and event at the San Francisco Public Library curated by and featuring photographer Ruby Ray.[12] Breiding's Zine's are featured in the M. Horvat Science Fiction Fanzine Collection housed at the University of Iowa Libraries.[13]
Additional zine titles Breiding published include Black Wolf,[14] A Clerk's Journal, Dumdum, Ebon Lute, Eremite's Column, Folklore, Personals, Phantom Poet, and Surrealist Exchange.[15]
Awards
1990 Rhysling Award (Best Short Poem winner for "Epitaph for Dreams")
2012 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem (for "Letter from the Golden Age")
2014 Rhysling for Best Short Poem (for "There Are Signs of Faerie Everywhere")
Bibliography
Breiding, G S. Autumn Roses: Selected Poems of G. Sutton Breiding Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, 1984. OCLC# 15643562
Breiding, G S, Caré Galbraith, Lance Alexander, and D S. Black. Necklace of Blood San Francisco: Atlantis Express, 1988. OCLC# 62409677
Breiding, G S, Don Herron, William Breiding, Chet Clingan, Walter Shedlofsky, and Tina Said. G. Sutton Breiding Papers , 1974. OCLC# 39514735
Hamill, Janet, and G S. Breiding. Nostalgia of the Infinite. Journal of an Astronaut Denver, CO: Ocean View Books, 1992. OCLC# 25202333
Black, D S, and G S. Breiding. Memory Leaves San Francisco: Atlantis Express, 1989. OCLC# 26941644 ISBN0929792025ISBN9780929792026
Joshi, S. T. and Steven J. Mariconda, eds. Dreams of fear: poetry of terror and the supernatural New York: Hippocampus Press, 2013.
The 1990 Rhysling Anthology: Nominees for the Best Fantastic Poetry of 1989 Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA): 1990.
Dutcher, Roger, Jane Yolen, G S. Breiding, Etal. The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase United States: Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2005. OCLC# 67764763 ISBN0809511622ISBN9780809511624
Gardner, Lyn C. A, Mary A. Agner, G S. Breiding, Etal. The 2012 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry of 2011. Covina, CA: Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2012. OCLC# 798838113 ISBN9781885093639ISBN1885093632
Breiding, G S. Hallucinating Jenny Napa Valley, Calif: Miniature Sun Press, 2000. OCLC#312140009 ISBN096766666XISBN9780967666662
Breiding, G S. Interstice 1: At Work Charlottesville, Va.: Juxta Press, 1996. OCLC# 36592105
Breiding, G S., Ed. Black Wolf San Francisco, Calif: Crow Mountain Pressworks, 1974. OCLC# 70889562
Nadramia, Peggy, ed. Narcopolis & Other Poems New York: Hell's Kitchen Publications, 1989. OCLC# 22778785 ISBN0962328618ISBN9780962328619
Allen, Thomas Allen, ed. Nouveau's Midnight Sun: Transcriptions from Golgonooza and Beyond Edmonds WA: Ravenna Press, 2014.
Breiding, G S., "Untitled" Eye to the Telescope: The Science Fiction Poetry Online Journal of Speculative Poetry. Male Perspectives. Simon, Marge, ed. Issue 21, July 2016Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine . Online.
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↑ Eng, Steve. "G. Sutton Breiding: San Francisco Surrealist." Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II. Ed. Darrell Schweitzer. Berkeley Heights: 1999. p. 144-148. Print.
↑ Eng, Steve. "Fantasy and Horror Poetry." Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1999. p.422. Print.
↑ Black, D. S. Introduction: Tropic of Dreams. White Map: Selected Poems: 1986–2000. By G. Sutton Breiding. Photo by Harry O. Morris. Web.
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