{{short description|American journalist}} {{COI|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Wayne Karlin | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|06|13}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, California | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author, editor, teacher | ethnicity = | religion = | citizenship = | education = BA, Humanities<br>Master's, Creative Writing | alma_mater = American College in Jerusalem<br>Goddard College | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Rumors and Stones''<br>''Lost Armies'' | spouse = Ohnmar Thein Karlin | partner = }}
'''Wayne Karlin''' (June 13, 1945) is an American author, editor, and teacher. His books include The Genizah (2024), ''A Wolf by the Ears'', ''Wandering Souls'', ''Marble Mountain,'' ''War Movies: Journeys to Vietnam'', ''The Wished-For Country'', ''Prisoners'', ''Rumors and Stones'', ''Crossover'', ''Lost Armies'', ''The Extras'', and ''Us''.
==Early life, college and military career==
Karlin attended White Plains High School, in New York and then served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1963 to 1967,<ref name="csm1">{{cite web |title=Local Writer, Vietnam Vet Discovers Transformative Power of the Art within His 'Marble Mountain' |url=https://news.csmd.edu/all-news/local-writer-vietnam-vet-discovers-transformative-power-of-the-art-within-his-%C2%91marble-mountain%C2%92/ |website=CSMD Newsroom |publisher=College of Southern Maryland |accessdate=2 October 2018 |archive-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125074001/https://news.csmd.edu/all-news/local-writer-vietnam-vet-discovers-transformative-power-of-the-art-within-his-%C2%91marble-mountain%C2%92/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> when he was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant. His decorations include the Vietnam Service Medal, the Air Medal, a Presidential Unit Citation, and the Combat Air Crew Badge with three stars. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities in 1970 from the American College in Jerusalem and his Master's degree in Creative Writing from Goddard College<ref name="csm1"/> in 1976.
==Post-war and professional career==
He retired as professor emeritus from the College of Southern Maryland,<ref>{{cite web |title=CSM Connections hosts poet Doug Anderson, Nov. 7 |url=http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/1014/csm-connections-hosts-poet-doug-anderson-nov-7.html |website=Bay Net |date=2 November 2014 |accessdate=October 2, 2018}}</ref> where he taught for over thirty years. He was also American editor of the Curbstone Press ''Voices from Vietnam'' series of books. That series includes ''The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers'' (1995), which he co-edited with Lê Minh Khuê and Truong Lu; ''The Stars, The Earth, The River: Short Fiction by Lê Minh Khuê'' (1997); ''Behind the Red Mist: Fiction by Hồ Anh Thái'' (1998); ''Against the Flood'', a novel by Ma Văn Kháng (2000); ''Past Continuous'', a novel by Nguyễn Khải (2001); ''The Cemetery of Chua Village and Other Stories'' by Đoàn Lê; (2005), ''Love After War: Contemporary Fiction from Viet Nam'', co-edited with Hồ Anh Thái (2003), ''An Insignificant Family'', by Dạ Ngân (2009), and ''Apocalypse Bell,'' by Hồ Anh Thái (2012), published by the Texas Tech University Press.
Karlin also adapted and edited ''In Whose Eyes,'' the memoir of the Vietnamese filmmaker Karlin was one of the script writers and served as a technical consultant and acted in the feature film ''Song of the Stork'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Song of the Stork |url=https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/song-of-the-stork-1200545981/ |website=Variety |date=24 September 2002 |accessdate=October 2, 2018}}</ref> a Vietnamese–Singaporean co-production, which won awards at several film festivals in Europe and Asia.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
Karlin's short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and appeared in many literary magazines, including ''Glimmer Train'', ''Indiana Review'', ''Michigan Quarterly Review'', ''North American Review'', and ''Prairie Schooner''. ==Personal life== Karlin lives in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, and was married for 44 years to Ohnmar Thein Karlin, who died in 2020. They have a son.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McClung |first1=Laren |last2=Komunyakaa |first2=Yusef (Foreword) |title=Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees |date=November 7, 2017 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0393354287 |pages=432 |edition=1}}</ref>
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==External links== * https://publerati.com/the-genizah-by-wayne-karlin/ Publerati author page * [http://www.curbstone.org/authdetail.cfm?AuthID=26, Curbstone Press Author page] * [http://www.centerforemergingmedia.com/resources_frameset.html Center for Emerging Media] * [http://www.megamedia.com.sg/STORKWEB/songofthestork.html Song of the Stork] * [http://archive.vva.org/archive/TheVeteran/2005_07/feature_pilgrim.htm "Pilgrim's Progress: Wayne Karlin and the Vietnam War," ''The VVA Veteran,'' July/August 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118045902/https://archive.vva.org/archive/TheVeteran/2005_07/feature_pilgrim.htm |date=2022-01-18 }}
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