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Mark Wisniewski’s work has appeared in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2008 and won a Pushcart Prize and a Tobias Wolff Award. He is the author of the novel CONFESSIONS OF A POLISH USED CAR SALESMAN and the collection of short fiction ALL WEEKEND WITH THE LIGHTS ON. More than 100 of his short stories have appeared in magazines such as ANTIOCH REVIEW, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, TRIQUARTERLY, NEW ENGLAND REVIEW, THE GEORGIA REVIEW, GLIMMER TRAIN, and THE SUN.

Eric Darton is the author of the New York Times bestseller DIVIDED WE STAND, a cultural history of the World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999).  His books of fiction are the novel FREE CITY (WW Norton, 1996), BEAKY CHRONICLES, a collection of fables, and OROGENE, the novel from which he will read tonight.  Eric is currently writing and publishing, via weekly email installments, two ongoing journals:  BORN WITNESS and SCROLL OF WONDERS. 

David Stanford Burr is a managing editor at St. Martin’s Press and a professor at New York University, where he teaches poetry writing workshops. He is the Barnes & Noble poetry series editor for poetry anthologies and the author of The Poet’s Notebook: Inspiration, Techniques, and Advice on Craft. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Barrow Street, The Kean Review, Manhattan Literary Review, Lips, and in several anthologies. David also edits poetry manuscripts for major New York City book publishing companies.

George Wallace is editor of Poetrybay, and author of 18 chapbooks of poetry, published in the US, UK and Italy. His most recent collection is Summer of Love Summer of Love released in 2008 by Shivastan Press, Woodstock. George is host of poetry events at the Bowery Poetry Club and Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan, teaches at Pace University, and travels nationally to perform his own work.

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