KGB Bar

Courtney Mauk received her MFA from Columbia University in 2006 and currently teaches writing and literature at College of Staten Island.  Her essay, “The Horse With No Name,” about her father’s memory loss during her adolescence, appears in the Fall 2008 issue of The Literary Review.  This winter her short fiction is forthcoming from Forge and the anthology Gravity Fiction. She recently completed her first novel, Muscle and Bone.

Thorn Kief Hillsbery’s first novel War Boy was published by HarperCollins and acclaimed by critics at the New York Times and Washington Post as the debut of a major new voice. It was translated into German, Spanish, and Catalan, and is being adapted for an off-Broadway play. His second novel, What We Do is Secret, was published by Random House and short-listed for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award in fiction. His essay on “Tantric Sex” appears in Dirty Words: A Literary Anthology of Sex, published earlier this year by Bloomsbury. His current project, Empire Made, is a nonfiction account of a quest for family history in India and Nepal. He is a former editor and columnist for Outside and has contributed feature articles to Rolling Stone and many other magazines. He received his MFA from Columbia University and lives in Manhattan.