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Cheryl Burke is Brooklyn-based poet and writer.  Her work appears in numerous print and online publications including; Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (Seal Press), Suspect Thoughts, Reactions 5: New Poetry (Pen & Inc), and Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (Alyson Books). Cheryl is also the creator and producer of PVC: The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show, a monthly slam between performance poets and stand-up comedians. Her website is www.cherylb.com.

Ed Hamilton is the author of Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York’s Rebel Mecca (Thunder’s Mouth Press). He also writes Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog. His non-fiction has regularly appeared in the local newspapers, Chelsea Now and The Villager.  Ed’s fiction has appeared in The River Walk Journal, SoMa Literary Review, as well as in dozens of online publications.

Nita Noveno is originally from a small fishing community in Southeast Alaska, more recently marked as the location of a cringe-inducing pork barrel project called “the bridge to nowhere.” When Nita is not traveling the world in her mind, which is often, she attempts to write it all down on paper.  She has published nonfiction on Vibrantgray.com, Ducts.org, and more recently in The MacGuffin.  She is the founder and co-host of the monthly prose reading series Sunday Salon in Williamsburg (check out the fabulous new SalonZine at SundaySalon.com for a bonanza of literary talent) and she works as a curriculum consultant in NYC public schools for the Student Press Initiative out of Teachers College.

Vittoria Repetto’s first poetry book Not Just A Personal Ad has won many accolades. She has been published in Mudfish, Voices in Italian Americana, Rattle, Lips, and many other magazines and anthologies. She has a chapbook entitled Head For the Van Wyck that contains a poem that her current publisher refused to print for fear of being sued by Camille Paglia. She has been hosting the Women’s/Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings Bookstore since 1999.

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