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Nalini Jones was born in Newport, Rhode Island, graduated from Amherst College, and received an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the Ontario Review, Glimmer Train, Dogwood, and Creative Nonfiction’s “Living Issue.” She is a Stanford Calderwood Fellow of the MacDowell Colony and has recently taught at the 92nd Street Y in New York and Fairfield University in Connecticut. She currently teaches at Columbia University and lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. She reads from her book: WHAT YOU CALL WINTER
“Like Chekhov - and this young writer is good enough to merit the comparison - Jones has faith in details. . . . We always sense the organizing intelligence and compassion of an author who invites us to understand rather than to judge."--Washington Post Book World

Raised in India, KARAN MAHAJAN, just 24, graduated from Stanford University in 2005 and has worked as an editor at MacAdam/Cage Publishing. He is the recipient of the 2006 Henry Jackson Award for Fiction, a novel grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. His writing has appeared in The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Sun, and Granta.com. Mahajan currently lives in Brooklyn, working for the New York City Economic Development Corporation and writing his second novel. He reads from his novel: FAMILY PLANNING

“Karan Mahajan is a natural-a masterful storyteller, an assured stylist and a gentle satirist whose unblinking vision is ultimately tempered by compassion. Family Planning is an incredibly accomplished debut. More than a fine first novel, it’s one of the best comic novels I’ve read in years.” - Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City
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Fiction Curator: Suzanne@KGBBAR.COM

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,