KGB Bar

BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY has been an activist in the women’s and peace movements since the 1960s. Her first novel, The Things We Do to Make It Home, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Los Angeles Times Best Fiction selection, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award when it was originally published in 1999. Her essays have appeared in The Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides and The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women’s True-Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out, or Faded Away. She has written for the New York Times, the Nation, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She has one daughter, Georgina Lieberman, and lives with Charlie Wiggins in New York and Maine.

Helen Benedict is the author of ten books, including five novels, The Edge of Eden being her latest, just out in November from Soho Press. A professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, her most recent nonfiction book was The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (April, 2009) and she wrote a related play, The Lonely Soldier Monologues, which was performed in New York City in March and September, 2009. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Salon, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, In These Times, and many other publications, and in 2008 her work on women soldiers won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Her novels have been listed as best books of the year by The Los Angeles Times and the New York and Chicago public libraries.

Nora Eisenberg’s debut autobiographical novel, The War at Home (Leapfrog), was a Washington Post Rave Book of the Year, 2002.  Her 2003 Just The Way You Want Me (Leapfrog), which explores a family ravaged by an political witchhunt, received ForeWord Magazine’s 2004 Gold Prize in general fiction. When You Come Home (Curbstone, 2008) was a finalist for the 2008 Grub Street Fiction Prize. She holds a PhD from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature and has taught at Stanford University, Georgetown University, and, for many years, the City University of New York, where she now directs the University’s Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, a mentoring program for emerging scholars. Her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in such places as The Partisan Review, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Tikkun, Alternet, and the Guardian UK. She lives in New York City and Narrowsburg, NY.