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For the second event of our season, we’ve got a double shot of fiction followed by a chaser of good old-fashioned non-fiction. Nominated by Columbia MFA faculty, our readers will charm, engage, and mystify all those in attendance with a sampling their best work.

Our line-up this month:

Anne Swan’s short fiction is forthcoming in Joyland. She recently completed residencies at the Institute for Sustainable Living, Art & Design and ART342. In addition to writing fiction, Anne produces reality and nonfiction television. She is completing her first novel, Throughout the Universe in Perpetuity, set in the not-so-distant future of reality television production. She lives in Los Angeles.

Rose Lichter-Marck grew up in California but has lived on the East Coast for ten years. She has a B.A. from Wesleyan University and is about to receive her M.F.A. from Columbia University in nonfiction writing. Before graduate school, she was an assistant editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Kristen O’Toole’s fiction has appeared on the Internet. You can probably guess which borough she lives in.

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What is Faculty Selects?  The first Thursday of each month from September through April, the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series with writers selected by the faculty. These fresh talents have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. In recent years, many of our featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success; this is your chance to glimpse who you’ll be reading in 2012!
Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.