KGB Bar

Armin Tolentino (poetry) is returning to his native New Jersey, ending a six year, self imposed exile.  In 2003, he graduated with a BS in chemistry from the College of New Jersey, but had no interest in pursuing the field professionally.  Instead, he spent time in Baltimore, Boston, and Portland, OR, experimenting with a grab bag of jobs including AmeriCorps volunteer, care taker, special education teacher, Japanese cook, and airline employee.

Amy Kiger-Williams (fiction) lives in West Caldwell, NJ, with her husband and three children (ages 9, 7, and 5).  She was born in Warsaw, Indiana, and has lived in Lancaster, PA and New York City.  She earned a BA in Comparative Literature/Creative Writing from NYU in 1990.  She has worked on a Wall Street trading floor, at an internet startup, for a consulting firm, and also has had a small business selling fabric online.  In addition to writing and reading, she enjoys making quilts, mixed media art, and jewelry. Her favorite writers include Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Mary Gaitskill, Amy Hempel and Alice Munro, to name a few.  She has published in Vestal Review, Pindeldyboz and Juked, and is currently at work on a novel.

Caleb Das (fiction) is moving to Newark from Vancouver, BC after completing his BFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia. Caleb grew up in Oman and London, and explored pre-med before turning full time to writing.  He played in a black metal band in Vancouver and has just acquired a gorgeous PRS named Aztlan on a road trip