KGB Bar

HONOR MOORE is the author of a biography, The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1996; three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; and a play, Mourning Pictures, which was produced on Broadway. Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She will be reading from her new memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter, which was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times and selected by the National Book Critics Circle as part of their “Good Reads” recommended reading list. Learn more at honormoore.com.

SARAH MANGUSO is the author of the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape and the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. Her honors include a Truman Capote Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Rome, a Pushcart Prize, and residency fellowships at Yaddo and the Ledig House International Writers Residency, among others. She will read from her new memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, which was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times. Learn more at sarahmanguso.com.

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