KGB Bar

Hosted by Kathleen Warnock

David Pumo’s first full-length play, Love Scenes, has been a critical smash at several venues in New York (Best Actor/Director, Fresh Fruit Festival), L.A., Chicago, San Francisco (Best of Fringe), Dublin and on Atlantis Cruise Lines.  His second, Auntie Mayhem, won an OOBR award, was nominated for a GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and Innovative Theatre awards, was published in the anthology Plays and Playwrights 2004, and is currently in development as a feature film with Aria Films and Full Circle Films of London.  Short plays include The Seed (winner, Riant Theatre One Act Festival), Perhaps (4th Unity) and Work Wife (Wings Theatre Company).  He has a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Carol Rosenfeld is a New York City-based writer and poet. Her work can be found in four anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 and the Lambda-award winning Best Lesbian Erotica 2003, and Back to Basics: A Butch/Femme Anthology. Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual, was an InsightOut Book Club and Quality Paperback Book Club selection. Carol’s story, “Rabbit Rerun,” made the 2005 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards shortlist for Best Short Story. Her first novel, Fool’s Mushroom, is forthcoming, and she is at work on a second book, Birds Do It, a parody of a lesbian romance novel. As the volunteer chair of The Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, Carol helps to organize and administer the annual Publishing Triangle awards and various other panels and special events.

Greg Sanders’s collection of short stories, Motel Girl, was published by Red Hen Press in September of 2008. Publishers Weekly calls the collection “concisely written, intelligent, funny, relevant and weird,” while Rain Taxi Review of Books says “whether dramatic or meditative, these stories are deft, enigmatic lyrics that pivot on an image or insight.” Greg received his MFA from the New School and earns his living as a technical writer. His stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies over the years, including Essays & Fictions, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz and, most recently, The Los Angeles Review.

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