KGB Bar

An Evening with Slice Magazine
Slice is a Brooklyn-based literary magazine dedicated to bridging the gap between emerging writers and the publishing world. Each issue features writing from tomorrow’s literary legends alongside interviews with today’s most renowned authors. Tonight, Slice contributors will read fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about life’s immortal theme--love.

Kathleen Alcott’s debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets, is forthcoming from Other Press in fall of 2012. Her work appears on TheRumpus.net; Rumpus Women Vol. 1, an anthology of personal essays by women; and The Bold Italic. A copywriter by day, she is currently at work on her second novel, a book that traces the lives of four tenants of an apartment building in New York City and their rapidly deteriorating landlord.

Sarah Gerard is a Brooklyn-based writer and bookseller. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Word Riot and Prick of the Spindle, among others. She is an MFA candidate at The New School.

Lucas Hunt was born in rural Iowa. His debut collection of poetry, Lives, was published to critical acclaim in 2006. His poems have appeared in many literary reviews, including The Southampton Review, Confrontation, and Anderbo. Hunt studied at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and in the MFA program at Southampton College. He is the recipient of a John Steinbeck Award for poetry. He lives in East Hampton, NY, where he works at a literary agency.

Ian F. King has written here and there for Slice magazine going back to issue #2, and he also now edits the website’s literary events calendar. He’s a contributing music writer for Line, a book review editor for KGB Lit Journal, and his writing has also appeared in Hobart, Pindeldyboz, Take the Handle and Nylon, among other places.

Sharona Moskowitz received an MA in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University and a BA in English from the University of Vermont. She spent several years living in Japan where she researched and taught at a private university near Tokyo. She currently lives in Manhattan.

John Trotta is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at Hunter College. His first published work, “Only Once, and Even Then,” appears in Slice’s upcoming 10th issue.

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,