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Jennifer Udden works at a literary agency in New York City. All of her various time-wasting pursuits, including her blog, Twitter, and pictures of fluffy dogs with moustaches on tumblr, can be found at http://www.jenniferudden.com.

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  • » VOLT by Alan Heathcock
  • » Jesmyn Ward - SALVAGE THE BONES
  • » CITY OF BOHANE by Kevin Barry

Guatemalan-born David Unger is the author of Life in the Damn Tropics (Syracuse University Press, 2002, Wisconsin University Press, 2004, [Vivir en el maldito trópico. Random House Mondadori, Mexico, 2004; Recorded Books 2005; Locus Publishing, Taiwan, 2006 and Yingpan Brother Publishing, China, 2007]).

His short stories have appeared in Playboy Mexico (October 2005), Currents from the Dancing River: New Writing By Latinos (New York: Harcourt), Tropical Synagogues: Latin American Jewish Fiction (New York: Holmes and Meiers), and in literary journals here and abroad. His new novel, In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful, has just begun making the rounds with publishers. He has translated eleven books, among them Teresa Cárdenas’s Letters to My Mother (Groundwood Books, 2006), Rigoberta Menchú’s The Honey Jar (Groundwood Books, 2006) and The Girl from Chimel (Groundwood Books, 2005), Ana María Machado’s Me in the Middle (Groundwood Press, 2002), Silvia Molina’s The Love You Promised Me (Curbstone Press,1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and shortlisted for the 2001 IMPAC Prize); The Popol Vuh (Groundwood Press, 1999); Elena Garro’s First Love (Curbstone Press); Bárbara Jacobs’ The Dead Leaves (Curbstone Press); and Nicanor Parra’s Antipoems: New and Selected (New Directions). He is the recipient of several prizes including the 1998 Ivri-Nasawi Institute Poetry Prize, and he shared in the 1997 ALTA Translation Prize for Roque Dalton’s Small Hours of the Night (Curbstone Press). He serves on the advisory board of Críticas Magazine, Curbstone Press and the Multicultural Review. He teaches Translation in the City College of New York’s MFA Program.

Life in the Damn Tropics: A Novel (Paperback) by David Unger

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  • » Passover Eve

Zachary Tyler Vickers has appeared in The Emerson Review, H-NGM-N Journal, mud luscious, The Idiom Magazine, as well as elsewhere.  He is an Iowa Writers’ Workshop fellow and an SLS fellow.  He has completed his first collection of stories entitled, “Disfigured Paper Animals,” and is currently working on another collection and a novel.

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  • » My Kind of Utmost Tender

James Warner’s short stories have appeared in Narrative, Ninth Letter, Agni Online, and elsewhere. His non-fiction has appeared in OpenDemocracy and the Rumpus. His novel All Her Father’s Guns was released this year by Numina Press.

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  • » Many Islands

Marina Read Weiss studied English and creative writing at Amherst College, and lives in Brooklyn. Her poetry and criticism can be found or are forthcoming in 34th Parallel, Boston Review, Brink Magazine, Caper Literary Journal, Clapboard House, Explosion-Proof*, and elsewhere. She received a Fulbright in 2008.

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  • » Changing the Subject

David Winner is the fiction editor of The American, an international monthly magazine based in Rome. His writing (fiction and nonfiction) has appeared in The Village Voice, Phantasmagoria, Berkeley Fiction Review, Cortland Review, Fiction, Confrontation and British literary magazines such as Staple and Dream Catcher. He won first prize in The Ledge magazine’s 2003 Fiction Contest as well as being nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. A short film based on his story was recently shown at Cannes. 

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  • » Beat: A Morality Tale
  • » Radio Lima

Iza Wojciechowska is finishing an MFA in creative nonfiction and literary translation at Columbia University. Her writing and translations from Polish have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, InTranslation, Sweet, and The Millions, among others. She’s working on a nonfiction book about war, art, family, and a Polish palace.

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  • » IN RED by Magdalena Tulli

Jesse Workman got his MFA in Screen Writing from Boston University in 2002. He is working on a book of poetry and short stories.

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  • » Gaki

Denis Woychuk is the founder of the KGB Bar and its world-class literary series, which he began in 1994 with his friend, the novelist, Melvin Bukiet (read history). He is also the founder of the Kraine Theater (1984) and The Red Room performance space (1992). Denis is the author of Attorney for the Damned: A Lawyers Life with the Criminally Insane (The Free Press, New York, 1996) as well as two books for children. He is currently working on his second musical based of his experiences as an attorney for maximum-security mental patients. Denis now lives in Manhattan, but at heart he's still old-school Brooklyn. To contact Denis e-mail: .

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