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Teacher, cartoonist, animator, Tom Hart is creator of Hutch Owen graphic novels and comic strips, critically acclaimed by The Comics Journal, Time.com, Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal. 

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John Haskell is the author of American Purgatorio and I Am Not Jackson Pollock.

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  • » Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi
  • » Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi

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  • » A B Plan

Erika Imberti holds a B.A. in Journalism and English Literature from Rutgers and is an assistant editor for an illustrated books publisher. She is a voracious photographer, travels on a whim, and was once awarded a trip to Switzerland for her writing. To contact Erika e-mail: .

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Richard Jackson is a PhD candidate from North-West England.  He enjoys writing about Central and Eastern Europe and has submitted articles to journals such as Transitions Online.  He runs his own personal blog, concerning Jewish life in the region: http://ferdydurkean.org/.  For KGB, he is learning how to write in American English – an admission he is not proud of.

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  • » Primeval and Other Times
  • » Whitehorn’s Windmill

Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir Miss New York Has Everything (Warner/Hatchette 2006) and a poetry collection, The Regulars (Liquid Paper Press 2001). Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Tears in the Fence (U.K.) and elsewhere. She lives in Trafford, Pa., the birthplace of the chocolate-covered pickle. 

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  • » Virtual Mother
  • » What If

Olena Jennings completed her MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Alberta. There she worked on translations from Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets' poetry, which were published in Chelsea and Poetry International Web. Her translation of Oleksiy Koshel's collection of poetry A Chapel for Angels was published in Ukraine. She completed her MFA at Columbia University. She is working on a novel. To contact Olena e-mail: .

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  • » Foreign Encounters: Dalkey Archive Press
  • » Jennifer Banash’s HOLLYWOODLAND
  • » Foreign Encounters: Dalkey Archive Press
  • » In the Name of Fiction: Impetus Press and the Risks They Took

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Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the most popular writer among Israeli youth today. Keret started writing in 1992 and has published four books of short stories, one novella, three books of comics and a children`s book. Bestsellers in Israel, his books have received international acclaim and have been translated into 16 languages, including Korean and Chinese. Missing Kissinger has been listed among the 50 most important Israeli books of all time. In France, Kneller`s Happy Campers was one of La Fnac’s 200 books of the decade; the story, “The Nimrod Flip-Out” was published in Francis Ford Coppola`s magazine, Zoetrope (2004). Over 40 short films have been based on Keret`s stories, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998). A number of his stories have also been adapted for the stage, in Israel and abroad. Keret has received the Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize several times. He has also been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize and the Ministry of Culture’s Cinema Prize. His movie, Skin Deep, won 1st Prize at several international film festivals, and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Keret is currently a lecturer in the TV and film department at Tel Aviv University. Rutu Modan, with whom he co-wrote Dad Runs Away with the Circus, received an Andersen International Honor Citation (2002) for her illustrations.

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  • » Three Stories: Bottle, Pipe, Asthma Attack

Jamila Khanom Allidina is an intern at KGB Bar Lit, a student at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and wishes she had cable.

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Melissa Kirsch is the author of The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything (Workman, 2006). Her poetry has been published in such journals as Northwest Review, Fence, Nerve, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat and in the insomnia anthology, Acquainted With the Night (Columbia University Press, 1999). She has received fellowships from the Camargo Foundation and the Château de La Napoule in France and the Fundación Valparaíso in Spain. She lives one block from KGB.

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  • » MY SECRET LIBRARY: Visit the Second, Where We Lazily Deconstruct the Novel
  • » MY SECRET LIBRARY: Pre-Fab Mod

Jonathan Lachance holds a B.A . in English and a masters degree in urban planning, but he's all about fiction. He recently completed a first novel, Heirs of Eminence, and is hard at work on his second. He has published articles on urban planning in Progressive Planner magazine. When he's not glassy-eyed in front of a computer, there's a good chance he's reading something by Murakami or Chandler or practicing Yiddish with his bubbe. He lives in Brooklyn. Contact . 

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  • » Inside The Black Factory: William Pope.L on Art and Race

Deborah Landau’s collection of poems, Orchidelirium, a National Poetry Series finalist, won the 2003 Anhinga Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely, and she has received two Pushcart Prize nominations. She co-curates the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series in New York City, where she is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of The New School Writing Program.

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Michael Liss works a day job, does business development and film programming for the Vail Film Festival and sometimes pretends he's writing a novel. He leaves the country as often as possible and the rest of the time is in New York.

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  • » Andrew Berends’ The Blood of My Brother
  • » Second Album Mastery?
  • » On Painting Your Lobster: An Interview with Nell Freudenberger
  • » 100 Posters, 134 Squirrels: An Interview with Silkscreen Artist Jay Ryan
  • » Bear Most Wanted: An Interview with Author Clifford Chase

Alex Littlefield is a contributor to Radar magazine and a former police correspondent for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. His play Indulgences was performed by an Oberlin College theater group, and his translation of an Argentine dogsledding memoir from the arctic north of Greenland is forthcoming in Canada. He works at an independent press in New York.

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  • » Before Using This Air Rifle

Bess Lovejoy is the former editor of many things, including the Vancouver, BC alt weekly Terminal City. She now lives in New York City and works on the American version of Schott's Almanac for Bloomsbury USA.

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  • » Form and Decay: An Interview with Mary Gaitskill
  • » Joshua Cohen’s Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed

Cecil Marcos invented Animal Collective for his eighth grade science project. Panda Bear is a ventriloquist sock puppet worn on his left arm when he gets bored on the weekends. Aside from pioneering the luxury sundial industry and being named Georgia’s All-State high school quarterback in 2003, Cecil is one of the nation’s most accomplished recumbent tandem bicyclists. Time Out New York describes his bicycling performance as “virtuosic ... a must see. Like Lance Armstrong playing co-op Mario Kart with God.” In his free time he enjoys watching Friday Night Lights while absently flipping through old issues of the Financial Times Weekend Supplement.

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  • » The Tragedy of Gary Moretti
  • » Yarnivores
  • » The Overton Window Review

Born in Virginia in 1973, Douglas A. Martin was raised in Georgia.  His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was selected by Colm Toibin as an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and has been adapted and staged by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia production “Kammer/Kammer.” His second novel, Branwell, has recently been published, as well as They Change the Subject, a collection of stories.

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  • » Blake’s by Douglas A. Martin

Ted Mathys' first book of poetry, Forge, was published by Coffee House Press in 2005. A second collection, Surface to Air, will appear from CHP in 2009. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in Fence, Verse, jubilat, Web Conjunctions, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Ohio, he now bunkers in Brooklyn.

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  • » Twelve Fundamentals

Ryan Max is an intern at KGB BAR LIT and an undergraduate student at NYU.

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More of John McCaffrey’s writings can be accessed at www.jamccaffrey.com. 

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  • » Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Born in California, McCall is an actor, director, and choreographer whose work has been presented internationally.  He has taught at institutions such as the Yale School of Drama, New School for Drama, New York University, the Atlantic Acting School, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, among others.  He lived in New York City for 18 years before moving to Oslo in 2008, where he is the Director of The International Theater Academy Norway (TITAN), a 2-year professional theater education program combining innovative artistic craft with practical entrepreneurship.  For more information, see http://www.titanteaterskole.no.

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  • » CRIME CORNER: The Secret Identities of Charles Ardai
  • » CRIME CORNER: Busted: Ken Bruen & Jason Starr Kill The Lone Wolf Enterprise
  • » [CRIME CORNER] Finishing The Job: Collins Completes Spillane Swan Song
  • » [CRIME CORNER] The Secret Identities of Charles Ardai
  • » [CRIME CORNER] Busted: Ken Bruen & Jason Starr Kill The Lone Wolf Enterprise
  • » [CRIME CORNER] Lawrence Block: Romance of the Ordinary Life
  • » Doing It Right: Interview with Gregg Hurwitz
  • » Christa Faust’s Money Shot Cashes In
  • » No Way Out: Jason Starr’s “Fake I.D.”
  • » The Velvet Coffin: Michael Connelly’s The Scarecrow

James McCloskey is an author and co-founder of the Street to Home Initiative, a non-profit that works with the chronically homeless. His fiction and journalism have appeared in New Stone Circle, The Normal College Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Kelly McMasters is a writer in New York. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Mediabistro.com, and is co-director of the KGB Nonfiction reading series in the East Village. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Domino, Metropolis, Elle Décor, Newsday, MrBellersNeighborhood, and Time Out NY, among others, and she is at work on her nonfiction book, SHIRLEY, to be published in March 2008.

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