MacArthur 'Genius' award-winner Dave Hickey is a freelance writer of fiction and cultural criticism. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Hickey has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, as director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City, as executive editor of Art in America magazine, and as contributing editor to The Village Voice. He has written for most major American cultural publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's, Vanity Fair, Nest, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He now serves as contributing editor to Art issues magazine in Los Angeles. Hickey's critical essays on art have been collected in two volumes published by Art Issues Press, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), which is in its sixth printing, and Air Guitar, Essays on Art and Democracy (1998), now in its third printing. His most recent book, Stardumb (Artspace Press, 1999), is a collection of stories with drawings by artist John DeFazio. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, The University of California, Santa Barbara, the Otis Parsons Institute, and The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Hickey has also been the subject of personal profiles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, and Texas Monthly. (from the Int'l Institue of Modern Letters)