KGB Bar

Eric Weinstein’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of online and print publications, including Best New Poets 2009, Wheelhouse Magazine, and Prick of the Spindle, where he currently serves as poetry editor. His poems have been nominated for inclusion in the annual Pushcart Prize anthology and have won several awards, including the Anne Flexner Award in poetry. A native of Nashua, New Hampshire, he currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Caitlin Dube lives in New York City. She holds a BA in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard, and an MFA from Columbia University.

Stephanie Rogers grew up in Middletown, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. In 2007, she received her MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time nominee for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and her poem “Symphony for Red” was selected for inclusion in the emerging writers anthology Best New Poets 2006. Her work has also appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Southern Review, Pleiades, and Cream City Review, among others. In 2008, she and Amber Leab co-founded the feminist film review website Bitch Flicks.

Sally Dawidoff’s poems appeared most recently in River Styx, Barrow Street, and BOMB. She teaches poetry workshops in New York.

Michael J. Grabell’s poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, Best New Poets 2009, the Southwest Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Rattle, Borderlands and the Sow’s Ear Poetry Review. He is an investigative reporter for ProPublica, a journalism nonprofit in New York, and mentors students in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. Originally from New Jersey, he studied creative writing at Princeton University. He now lives in Brooklyn, with his wife Laura and their beloved potted plants.

Alex Dimitrov is the recipient of a Roy W. Cowden Fellowship from the Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poets & Writers, Crab Orchard Review, The Cortland Review, Gargoyle, and The Portland Review among others. He is the awards coordinator of the Academy of American Poets and the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City.

Adam Giannelli teaches at C. W. Post, Long Island University, and graduated from the MFA program at the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. He is the editor of High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright (Oberlin College Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in the American Literary Review, Smartish Pace, and Phoebe.

BRANDON COURTNEY spent four years in the United States Navy.  He is currently pursuing a BA in Creative Writing from Drake University in Des Moines, IA, where he is finishing his manuscript titled When the Ocean is an Autoclave.