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Tom Perrotta is the author of six novels, including The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children.

Amy Bonnaffons is a second-year fiction student in NYU’s Graduate Creative Writing Program.  She was born in New York and since then she’s spent time in Connecticut, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, and Burma.  She has taught writing and literature at the middle school, high school, and college levels.  In her spare time she likes to sing Balkan and Bluegrass music and wonder what Jesus did for fun.

Emily Brandt teaches English and yoga to high school students in Brooklyn, and co-edits No, Dear magazine.  Her poems have appeared in Swamp, Reconfigurations, and Podium, and her photos have appeared in The New York Times, The Rio Grande Review and The Jewish Week.

Georgie Devereux is a second year MFA student at NYU. She lives in Brooklyn.

Kimberly Faith Waid hails from Montgomery, Alabama. She received her B.F.A. from The Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia. She is a writer of both fiction and journalism—the latter having been published in ArtSlant, MetroMix, and The Los Angeles Times. When she is not at work on her first novel, she handles public relations for Washington Square, NYU’s nationally distributed literary journal. She is also a Fellow at Goldwater, a hospital on Roosevelt Island for patients with special disabilities. Here, she works with resident writers in transcribing their work and teaches weekly writing workshops. In her writing, she is inspired by sharks, civil rights, and old time radio.

About the Series: NYU Emerging Writers

The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the students of the NYU graduate Creative Writing Program, and features established writers as special guests.