KGB Bar

Mohammed Naseehu Ali, a native of Ghana, is a writer and musician. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Bennington College, Ali has published fiction and essays in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Mississippi Review, Bomb, Gathering of the Tribes, and Essence. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Cynthia Kraman’s latest book is THE TOUCH (Bowery Books 2009). She has three previous collections of poems, and was lead-singer songwriter of the Seattle punk band Chinas Comidas whose live and studio recording are out on CD from Exquisite Corpse Records. She has a doctorate from the University of London; her essay “The Wound of the Infinite: Rereading Levinas through the Commentary of Rashi” came out this year in a volume from Duquesne.

Zachary Lazar is the author of the novels Aaron, Approximately, Sway, and a forthcoming non-fiction book, Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder.  He is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and has also won a Guggenheim Fellowship.