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Christopher Bramis is the author of nine novels, including THE NOTORIOUS DR. AUGUST, EXILES IN AMERICA, and GODS AND MONSTERS, which was made into the Academy Award winning movie starring Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave.
He grew up in Virginia where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He currently teaches writing at Gallatin College. Alyson Books is publishing a selection of his essays, MAPPING THE TERRITORY.

Martin Hyatt was born just outside of New Orleans. His novel, A Scarecrow’s Bible, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. NY Magazine recently named him a “star of tomorrow” in their Literary Idol feature. He has taught writing at such places at Hofstra, Yeshiva, The New School, and St. Francis College. He is the Founding Coordinator of a Writing Center in New York City. He has just completed a new novel entitled Beautiful Gravity and is currently working on a memoir titled Greyhound Boy, 1976.

Mark O’Donnell has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Spy and many other publications. Knopf has published four books by him, including the novels GETTING OVER HOMER and LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY. He won a Tony as the bookwriter of the Broadway musical HAIRSPRAY, and has had half a dozen plays produced off-Broadway.