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Simon Van Booy grew up in the mountains of Wales and in Oxford. He won the H. R. Hays Poetry Award. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Long Island University, and Southampton Library. His fist collection of short stories, the critically acclaimed The Secret Lives of People in Love, has been translated into eight languages. He lives in Brooklyn and he reads from his collection Love Begins in Winter.
“Pitch-perfect . . .Love Begins in Winter is a splendid collection, and Van Booy is now a writer on my must-always-read list. “ Robert Olen Butler
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Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels, books, television, and urban life for The New York Times, Jane, Print, New York, Nylon, Radar, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon, Plenty, Nextbook, Time Out NY, eWeek, and others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Five Chapters, Smokelong Quarterly, 3: AM Magazine, and Spork. She recently appeared in the anthologies Sex for America, Future Misbehavior and Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, and has an essay forthcoming in Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts Her debut collection of stories, INSTANT LOVE, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books in June 2006. THE KEPT MAN was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008, and is now available in paperback. She reads from her latest novel: THE MELTING SEASON. She lives in Brooklyn.
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curator/fiction suzanne dottino contact: 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,