He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz.
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Its recently published and upcoming list of contributors include composers, artists and critical theorists, such as: Hildegard Westerkamp, John Cage, Max Neuhaus, R. Murray Schafer, Alvin Lucier, Douglas Kahn and Richard Kostelanetz.
Along with Igor Satanovsky, Julia Solis, Bill Keith, Richard Kostelanetz, and a growing list of experimental Russian language writers, William James Austin publishes with Koja Press which has been featured in a New York Times article, on BBC News, and on NTV.