KGB Bar

Tamar Adler is the author of An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace (Scribner, October 2011). She is a former editor of Harper’s Magazine, the founding head chef of Farm 255 in Athens, Georgia, and cooked at Chez Panisse from 2007-2009. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The New Leader, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, Fine Cooking, Salon.com, Gift Taste, and Atlantic.com among other publications. Tamar lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Amy Axler has been writing for a very, very long time. She’s had a slew of different jobs, many of which have proved useful providing grist for the writer’s mill as well as unemployment benefits. She is currently working on a novel called “The Polish Newspaper.” It’s a love story. Amy graduated from college in California, and has an MFA from the New School. She blogs at dearpersonalgrocer.com.

Anna Raverat grew up in North Yorkshire and read English at King’s College, Cambridge University. In 2008 one of her short stories won a Bridport Prize. Her first novel Signs of Life will be published in April 2012 by Picador and Rowohlt and has been selected as one of the Waterstones 11--the UK’s biggest bookseller’s selection of the finest debut fiction for 2012. She works as a consultant and lives in London with her three young children.