GAIL KONOP BAKER is an award-winning writer and essayist. A former columnist at Literary Mama, is a regular contributor to thedebutanteball.com. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her family and will be reading from her first book, CANCER IS A BITCH (Or, I’d Rather by Having a Midlife Crisis). Find more information here: www.gailkonopbaker.com
MICHAEL J. AGOVINO has written for a wide range of publications and online sites, including The New York Times, Esquire, GQ, Salon, Elle, and The New York Observer. He will be reading from his first book THE BOOKMAKER: A Memoir of Money, Luck and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of NY City.
TREVOR CORSON and his work have been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, NPR’s All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, as well as the Food Network’s hit TV show Iron Chef America. His first book, The Secret Life of Lobsters, was named a best nature book of the year by USA Today and Discover and a best book of the year by Time Out New York. He lives in New York City and will be reading from his new book, now in paperback, THE STORY OF SUSHI: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice. Visit TrevorCorson.com for more information.
NANCY AGABIAN is the author of Princess Freak, a collection of poems and performance art texts, and coordinates Gartal, a progressive literary reading series for Armenian writers in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches nonfiction writing at Queens College and will read from her new memoir, ME AS HER AGAIN.