KGB Bar

Lawrence Applebaum is an associate editor of Mudfish and a four time Pushcart nominee, his essay “Flaming Redhead” about Lucille Ball is featured in the Lambda nominated anthology My Diva,65 Gay Men and the Women Who Inspire Them.  His work is forthcoming in the anthology Bridging New York City. Lawrence is widely published (in photographs, collages, and poetry) especially in Skidrow Penthouse. He is currently working on his memoir Lawrence of Manhattan and his first book of poems.

Marina Rubin’s first chapbook Ode to Hotels came out in 2002, followed by Once in 2004 and Logic in 2007, the trilogy completed before the age of 30.  Her poetry appears in PDQ, Timber Creek, Ilya’s Honey, Pearl, Skidrow Penthouse, Asheville Poetry Review, Chaffin Journal, The Amherst Review, Urban Spaghetti, 5AM and many more. She is an associate editor of Mudfish.  Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart.  She lives in New York City where she moonlights as a headhunter on Wall Street while writing her fourth book, a collection of flash fictions.

Catherine Sasanov has been a proud contributor to Skidrow Penthouse since 2006.  Her latest poetry collection, Had Slaves (Firewheel Editions, 2010), written out of her discovery of slaveholding among her Missouri ancestors, won the 2009 Sentence Book Award.  Poems from the book, as well as poems from Catherine’s experiences with la Santa Muerte (Saint Death) in Mexico City, can be found in Skidrow’s pages.

Mark Wisniewski is author of the novel Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman, the collection of stories All Weekend with the Lights On, and the book One of Us One Night: Poems. His work has appeared in Poetry, Antioch Review, Poetry International, and the Pushcart Prize and Best American anthologies. Work of Mark’s, previously published in magazines, appears weekly on markwisniewski.blogspot.com.