KGB Bar

...and your hostess, Kathleen Warnock

Jessie Male is a writer, dancer and native New Yorker. Since graduating
from Oberlin College in 2005 she has worked as: an editor for the
number two grocery trade magazine in the country, a grant writer,
assistant to the colloid and surfactant king of America/ co-organizer
of the 2009 ICSCS ACS IACIS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, a
writing teacher, and a research assistant. Her dating life has been as
eclectic as her employment history, so she recently co-founded the Web
site Baddategreatstory.com, where some of her stories can be read, and
which is currently seeking submissions. Jessie is an MFA student in
nonfiction at Hunter College. She is currently working on her first
memoir.

Carol Rosenfeld is a writer and poet residing in New York City until
she can move to the country and become the old woman all the village
children are afraid of. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, she
published some stories in various lesbian erotica anthologies. She also
has three novels in various stages of development, classifying them
like a kind of literary Goldilocks: “This novel’s just started; this
novel’s a quarter of the way there; this novel is just about right. I
think I’ll nap now.”

Meri Weiss was born and raised in New York. She holds a BA in English
from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Creative Writing from
Southampton College and a Master of Arts in Literature from SUNY New
Paltz. She was the recipient of the Sarah Tucker Award for Fiction and
Southampton College’s John Steinbeck Award. CLOSER TO FINE, her debut
novel, was nominated for a 2009 Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted
for the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers. Meri
teaches literature at The College of New Rochelle’s South Bronx campus.
She is slowly but surely writing her second novel, tentatively titled
ON BORROWED TIME.

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a monthly reading series dedicated to
the proposition that readings should be: excellent, well-read pieces
that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous
laughter counts), and don’t run more than 15 minutes each.  For
information: careeningwriters@aol.com