KGB Bar

The six readers will be Anderbo poet Kathleen Kraft, Anderbo Fiction writers Kristen O’Toole and Erika Swyler, and Anderbo “fact” contributors Tove Danovich, Paul Vigna and Anne Fiero.  Anderbo (http://anderbo.com) is an online literary journal founded by author Rick Rofihe.

Press contact: Rick Rofihe, 917-705-4081, rrofihe@yahoo.com

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Reader Bios:

Erika Swyler has fiction in The Green Flash, Semaphore Magazine and Anderbo.com .  She is an award-winning playwright and a recipient of an InnermoonLit prize for best first chapter of a novel.  She holds a BFA from New York University.

Tove Danovich currently attends The New School in New York. She received a Silver Award in 2008 from Scholastic for her general portfolio in addition to winning Leeland, Michigan’s inaugural Stage Turner contest and Indiana-Purdue’s 08 Poetry contest. In addition, she has a short story pending publication in Slushpile.

Kristen O’Toole recently completed her MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. Her fiction has appeared in Anderbo, Fogged Clarity, Gigantic, and Flatmancrooked’s Anthology of Great New Writing Done During an Economic Depression. She is currently working on a young adult novel.

Paul Vigna has been a journalist for going-on 20 years, and currently writes and edits the Market Talk column for Dow Jones Newswires.  He lives with his wife and son in Verona, N.J. He has visited 47 states. 

Anne Fiero is a writer of poetry, fiction, essays and reviews. She curates the literary edition of Art Waves on WKCR-FM NY, featuring contemporary works of poetry, fiction, new music and radio drama in an experimental format. Her work has been published in White Fungus, The Quarterly Conversation, KGB Magazine, Nth Position, Poor Mojo’s Almanac[k], and more and she was featured as an Editor’s Choice on PoetryMagazine.com .

Kathleen Kraft received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is currently a student at The Writers Studio in New York City. She lives in Hoboken, NJ, where she teaches elementary school movement. Besides anderbo.com , her poetry has also been published on Willows Wept Review.