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Jacob M. Appel’s short fiction has appeared in more than one hundred leading literary journals. His prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize, and many other prizes. His stories have been short-listed for the O. Henry Award, Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology.  Jacob’s plays have been performed at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Adrienne Theatre, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Heller Theater, Curtain Players, Epilogue Players, Open State Theatre, Intentional Theatre, Little Theatre of Alexandria and elsewhere, and have received numerous public readings across the country and abroad. 

Cheryl Burke is Brooklyn-based poet and writer. Her work appears in several print and online publications, including; Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (Seal Press), BLOOM and Reactions 5: New Poetry (Pen & Inc.). She has received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been a resident Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. As a performance poet, Cheryl has appeared at numerous venues in NYC and toured throughout the U.S and the U.K.  Her website is cherylb.com.

Lisa Ferber is a prolific multidisciplinary satirist. She has read her short stories at Sunday Salon, Dirty Laundry, Barbes, and Mad Hatters Ball. Her plays and songs have been performed at La Mama, The Duplex, The Brick, Theater for the New City , and other venerable locations, and her play Bonbons for Breakfast was a New York magazine “notable production.” Her play Lisa Ferber’s ‘An Evening With Molly Hadafew’ will be published in The Book of Estrogenius 2008, due out in late 2009. Her film “The Celery Stalker” toured US film festivals. Her first whimsical illustration debuted at the National Arts Club, followed by a piece at Location One, acceptance into the final exhibit at Projekt30, two sales to private collectors, and a room at the Second Annual Governor’s Island Art Fair. She is currently at work on a novel and will debut her new paintings in 2010. She experiences frequent bursts of gratitude for living in New York City .