KGB Bar

NYU-SCPS Programs in Writing and Speech Present The 2012 Spring Term STUDENT READING

Featuring

JUANITA BOBBITT

DENNIS JAMES

KEITH McDERMOTT

CHRIS SHIRLEY

And

HELEN WAN

In the final event presented this spring by NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and literary venue KGB Bar, five students from the NYU-SCPS writing tutorial program will read from their work.

Please join us in supporting this term’s featured student readers.  Family and friends are welcome to attend.

Juanita Bobbitt’s first novel is Beyond Where the Eye Can See, a historical rendering of a mixed-race marriage in late nineteenth-century Barbados that follows three generations as they immigrate to New York.  Previously she published two non-fiction books.

Dennis James has published in Mobius magazine, Summerset Review, Struggle Magazine, and MacGuffin.  He is working on a collection of short stories about people and their work.

Keith McDermott is the author of Acqua Calda (Carroll & Graf at Avalon Press), winner of a 1999 In Our Own Write Award.

Chris Shirley is the author of Playing by the Book (due in March 2013 from Magnus Books), in which a fundamentalist boy preacher falls for a male classmate.

Helen Wan’s novel, The Firm Outing (to be published by St. Martin’s Press during Summer 2013) is about a Chinese-American lawyer and the glass ceiling.