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Elyssa East is the author of the nonfiction book Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, winner of the PEN New England/LL Winship Award in Nonfiction, which interlaces the story of a grisly 1984 murder with the strange dark history of Gloucester, Massachusetts’ abandoned colonial settlement. A graduate of Columbia University’s Creative Writing M.F.A. program, Elyssa’s writing has been published in the New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, Guernica, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and elsewhere. In 2007, a scene from her opera libretto Mr. Hawthorne’s Engagement was performed with the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice series. Find out more at http://dogtownthebook.com/

John Reed is the author of the novels A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press), THE WHOLE (MTV / Simon & Schuster), the bestseller SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof), the recently released ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/Plume), and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE (MTV Press) He has been published in Open City, Artnet, Artforum, Paper Magazine, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Timeout New York, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, and many other venues, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.