KGB Bar

Jami Attenberg is the author of two books of fiction, Instant Love and The Kept Man. She has written for Jane, Nylon, Salon, New York, Nerve and many other publications, and her essays have been collection in various anthologies, including the forthcoming Love is a Four-letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts. Her third book, The Melting Season, will be published by Riverhead Books sometime in 2010.  Visit her at whatever-whenever.net

The Bitter Poet (Kevin Draine) most recently performed his new show, Looking For Love In All The Wrong Cafes, Strip Clubs and Black Box Performance Spaces at the Duplex on Valentine’s Day. He’s also performed his show, “Angst & Burlesque” at Dixon Place; PS122 Schoolhouse Rocks; The P.I.T.; The Brick Theater Hell Festival; The Lucky Cat ; Arlene Grocery; Rapture Café and many others. As a solo act, The Bitter Poet is a regular at Stage Left’s Forbidden Kiss Erotica Night, and in other variety shows at venues like:  Theatre For The New City; Bowery Poetry Club; Galapagos Art Space, Public House and others.  Visit him online at www.thebitterpoet.com

Staci Swedeen is a playwright, actress and current Literary Manager of the Penguin Rep Theatre. Her play “The Goldman Project” premiered Off Broadway in the fall of 2007 and is being published by Samuel French. Other plays have been performed across the country, published in anthologies and presented in festivals. Staci is a Professor of Playwriting and Theatre Mentor at Fairfield University and she also teaches playwriting at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT. Staci is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatist Guild, Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity and Emerging Artists Theatre.  Her one-woman show “Pardon Me For Living.” - A life and death comedy involving a rabid raccoon - was read in its infant stage at DCW, went to kindergarten at Emerging Artist’s “One Woman Standing” Festival and graduated to a full production at the Hudson Stage Company in Westchester in November 2008. For more information: www.staciswedeen.com