KGB Bar

Jon Prusik has lived in Brooklyn for nine years and works as a freelancer in the TV industry. Programs he’s worked on include: The Apprentice, The First 48, and Tim Gunn’s Guide To Style. He’s also written album reviews for an NYC music-based website, KevChino, affording him the chance to cover live events such as The National, Nine Inch Nails, and Nick Cave. And in the other fleeting pockets of time he finds inspiration trickling through. Work on a novel of urban fiction carries on.

Nikki Moustaki holds an M.A. in poetry from New York University and an M.F.A. in poetry from Indiana University. She is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry and is a recipient of a 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in poetry. Nikki has taught creative writing at NYU, Indiana University, and The New School.

Ekoko Pauline Omadeke is a Cave Canem fellow and graduate of New York University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. Her work has been published in Arts Poetica and No, Dear Magazine. She is the founder and former curator of the Southern Writers Reading Series at Happy Ending Lounge. She spent a year teaching creative writing to 2nd graders through The Community Word Project’s Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program. She misses the rural two lane roads of Virginia, but not enough to leave Brooklyn where she lives and writes.

The Bitter Poet’s show “Looking For Love In All The Wrong Black Box Performance Spaces,” presented at 2011 FRIGID NY Fringe Festival, was nominated for Outstanding Performance Art Production by the NY Innovative Theatre Awards. The FronteraFest in Austin, TX selected The Bitter Poet for it’s “Best Of Festival Showcase” three years in a row.  The Bitter Poet was also selected for the Piccolo Spoleto Fringe Festival in Charleston, SC.  In New York City, The Bitter Poet has performed in venues including:  Dixon Place; PS122 Schoolhouse Rocks; The P.I.T.; La MaMa; Theatre For The New City; Bowery Poetry Club; Galapagos Art Space; Magnet Improv Theatre; Arlene Grocery; E.A.T.’s One Man Talking Festival; The Brick; Jalopy Theatre and many others. More at: www.thebitterpoet.com

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