KGB Bar

Lynne Beckenstein is a second-year fiction student in the M.F.A. program. Previously, she graduated from Columbia University and worked as a grant writer and administrative assistant for arts education programs.  Since coming to NYU, she has served as a Starworks fellow and the development coordinator for One Story.

Margarita Delcheva was born behind the Iron Curtain, which is why she is so excited to read at the KGB. She was published in Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts. Among her interests are Argentine Tango, traffic light racing in the streets of Sofia, and making charcoal drawings of her friends. She loves New York because you can always eat fast-food sushi three times a day. Her favorite writer is the Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov.

Nicki Gill is completing an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at NYU. She is from Melbourne, Australia.

Joanna Scott is the author of seven novels, including Liberation, Tourmaline, Make Believe, The Manikin, and Arrogance, and two collections of short fiction, Various Antidotes and Everybody Loves Somebody. Her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN-Faulkner, and the LA Times Book Award. Awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

Michael Vizsolyi was born already drunk in a vineyard in Hungary, and split his time growing up between there and Pennsylvania.  He is currently an MFA student at NYU.  His poems have appeared in a few journals, including “The Red Clay Review,” and “Left Behind: A Journal of Shock Literature.”