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KGB Nonfiction presents the anthology Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia with readings by Priscilla Becker, Maura Kelly, and Latria Graham, along with editor Kate Taylor

About the book:
Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic’s self-enclosed world. Taking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion, fashion and family, the essays examine the role that anorexia plays in a young person’s search for direction. Particularly helpful for parents, siblings, and friends, “Going Hungry” makes accessible the mindset of a disease that has long been misunderstood.

Maura Kelly has published personal essays in The New York Observer, Glamour, Salon, The Washington Post, and other publications. A dating columnist for AM New York, she is working on a novel about a teenager who is losing her mind.

Priscilla Becker is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her first book of poetry, Internal West, won The Paris Review Book Prize, and her second, Stories That Listen, has just been completed.

Latria Graham is currently a student at Dartmouth College, studying English and Theater. She spends her vacation time with her family in Spartanburg, South Carolina, collecting stories for her senior thesis.

Kate Taylor is a culture reporter at The New York Sun; her writing has also appeared in Slate and The New Yorker. She graduated from Harvard and lives in New York.