KGB Bar

Sativa January is a writer and filmmaker who has produced documentaries for PBS and Showtime, and recently worked with National Public Radio’s This Amerian Life. She was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s fiction contest in March 2008 and is currently working on a novel inspired by her work at a United Nations war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone. Sativa is an MFA student in Fiction at New York University and lives with her husband in Napa Valley, California.

Kseniya Melnik was born in the Russian Far East and immigrated to Alaska at the age of 15. Since college she has worked in independent film, classical music PR, pharmaceutical sales, real estate and at a law firm.  In her writing, she is inspired by music, snow, moose and Soviet nostalgia. 

Bryan Patrick Miller is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. His essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Raven Chronicles, Crab Creek Review and Seattle Magazine. He has been a Writer-in-Residence at Richard Hugo House and a Geduld-Starworks Master Fellow at New York University, where he currently teaches undergraduate creative writing.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of two books of poetry: Miracle Fruit, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize, and most recently At the Drive-In Volcano.

Stephen Neal Weiss is the former editor of the Yale Literary Magazine and is the co-author, with his wife Casey Kait, of Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley (HarperCollins, 2001). His nonfiction writing has appeared in Gourmet, BlackBook, and NYMag.com. He is a poetry MFA student at NYU.