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Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including GODS AND MONSTERS, which was made into the movie starring Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave. A collection of his essays, MAPPING THE TERRITORY, was published last year. He is currently working on a history of gay men’s literature, EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA.

Jenifer Levin is the author of novels Water Dancer, Snow, Shimoni’s Lover, and The Sea of Light, and short story collection Love and Death, and Other Disasters.  Her essays appear in Wanting a Child, A Love Like No Other, Cookin’ With Honey and other anthologies, and she has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Forward, to name a few.  A Pen-Hemingway Award and Lambda Literary Award nominee, she is the recipient of multiple Hopwood Awards for both fiction and nonfiction.  She taught at the University of Michigan and The Writer’s Voice (NYC), and is proud of the fact that several of her students have gone on to publish novels of their own.

Bob Smith has appeared on “The Tonight Show” and had his own HBO special. His first book Openly Bob won the Lambda Literary Award for Humor. His first novel Selfish and Perverse was one of three nominees for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

Elizabeth Whitney is a writer/performer.  You may have seen her in SHOWGASM at Ars Nova, The Bulldyke Chronicles at Dixon Place, and The Famous Lesbian Comedy Road Show at Stonewall. You should definitely see her on the Brooklyn Pride stage and in TOSOS’ upcoming production of THE SECRETARIES in the 2010 NYC Fringe! She was nominated for Best Actress at the 2009 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival; “Best Performance” at the New York City Fresh Fruit Festival; “Best Solo Performance” at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Famous Lesbian Comedy Road Show, and The Femme Show. She is currently developing a new solo show about her hometown of Tallahassee, Florida. www.elizabethwhitney.com

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition that readings should be by 1) good writers; 2) who read their work well; and 3) something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts). And 15 minutes tops.