User:Wilkovich1

Greg Wilkovich was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 7th, 1975, and has spent most of his life in Maryland. Greg left the University of Maryland in 1997 with a B.A. in English, countless frat party stories, two concussions and an insatiable love of writing. Though he never did land that job at the English Company, Greg continues to write for as long as he can remain awake. He has been featured in numerous regional newspapers (Volume Magazine, You Could Do Worse, St. Pete Weekly), contributed to a handful of literary websites (WiredFiction.com, Thriftgoddess.com), co-created a now-defunct online literary forum (Junkmag.com) and authored several collections of poetry.

Each collection of poetry had a limited run of fifteen copies each: Mute (1996), Arbitrators (1997), Melange Baby (2000), The Ghost is Laughing at You (2000), Intake (2000) and Stupid If You Think About It (2001). Despite the more likely explanation of lack of funds, Wilkovich insists that he discontinued the series because he'd said "everything he has to say about ex-girlfriends and emo-pain."

"Once SHE left, I realized that either I was going to write volumes of bad poetry forever, or I needed to do something else," Wilkovich said in a January 2005 interview with Impetus Underground Freezine. "I needed to stop drinking and start using harder, weirder drugs."

In November 2004, Wilkovich realized a project he first drew up ten years previous. HFA: Selected Stories and Found Items was published with AuthorHouse on-demand press, and is available through Authorhouse.com, Amazon.com and others, and can be ordered by request at most bookstores.

"They had my book listed on MTV.com," Wilkovich laughes in IUF. "That's when I knew that this whole experience has been downright nutty."

A man we met downtown told us that Wilkovich's HFA is "the greatest and best book in the universe. The book is so awesome that if you set two of them side by side, time and space collapses onto itself, much like a black hole."

A much-anticipated sequel, HFA2, is slated for an early 2007 release.