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Dale Peck is the author of The Law of Enclosures, Now It's Time to Say Goodbye, What We Lost: Based on a True Story, Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction. In August 2006: FSG will reissue Martin and John as part of the FSG Classics series. January 2007: Drift House: The First Voyage comes out in paperback; Drift House: The Amulet of Babel comes out in hardcover (Bloomsbury). May 2007: Carroll and Graf will publish a new novel, The Garden of Lost and Found.

• Dale's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Fruit Salad
  • » Fruit Salad
  • » The Ballad Of Earl King: After Goethe

Anne Pelletier is at work on a collection of short stories, Meat and Meat Byproducts. She is a student in the MFA program in fiction writing at Columbia University. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Sleepingfish and The Brooklyn Rail.

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Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His first novel, Prague, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and has been translated into seven languages. The Egyptologist was published in 2004 and was on not eleven but twelve 2004 Best Fiction Lists. His novel Angelica is coming out in 2007.

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John Radosta lives with his wife in son in Boston and teaches high
school English. He is an avid brewer, and loves gadgets.

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  • » Strangers In the Living Room

John Reed received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University; writing has appeared in such venues as Bomb Magazine, The New York Press, New York Arts, Cover Magazine, Paper Magazine, Timeout New York, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Artnet, Open City and Playboy; Books Editor of the Brooklyn Rail since 2004; author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press 2000/2001), THE WHOLE (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster 2005), the 2004 bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof Books 2002/2003), and a yet untitled “New Play by William Shakespeare” (Penguin, 2008); teaches at New School University.

• John's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Notes from the Undercard
  • » Easyreeder

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first collection of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Book Prize and will be published in August 2006. She is the founder and co-curator of the Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, D.C. 

• Carly 's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Poetry Roadtrip #2: Connecticut, Claribel Alegria & Curbstone Press
  • » POETRY ROADTRIP DESTINATION #2: Connecticut, Claribel Alegria & Curbstone Press
  • » POETRY ROADTRIP: Detroit; “Obadike’s Armor and Flesh, and Madgett’s Lotus Press”

Lisa Selin Davis is the author of the novel Belly, and a freelance writer in New York. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Preservation, Metropolis, Marie Claire and many other publications, and her fiction and prose poems have been published in Swink, Hayden's Ferry Review, West Branch and Small Spiral Notebook, among others.

• Lisa's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Anywhere

Mookyung Sohn is a Studio Art major at NYU. She loves parakeets, NYC, music, and art. www.geocities.com/mksportfolio

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Jason Starr, born in Brooklyn, has been compared to Jim Thompson and James M. Cain. His novel Tough Luck won the Barry Award, and the Anthony Award for Twisted City. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.

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Kendra Sullivan lives in Brooklyn . She studied painting at NYU, where she received the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Poetry. She's worked at Poets House, Apex Art, Archipelago Books, Pequod, and The Center for Book Arts. Last summer she taught arts and crafts in Central America. She'd like to go back. Kendra is also a monthly columnist for KGB BAR LIT. To contact Kendra e-mail: .

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Kendra Sullivan lives in Brooklyn. She studied painting at NYU, where she received the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Poetry. She's worked at Poets House, Apex Art, Archipelago Books, Pequod, and The Center for Book Arts. Last summer she taught arts and crafts in Central America. She'd like to go back. Kendra is also a monthly columnist for KGB BAR LIT. To contact Kendra e-mail: . 

• Kendra 's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » City Grid: A Column of Intersecting Cultural Experiences

Suzanne Dottino received her MFA in writing (nonfiction) from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Espous, Heeb, The Bloomsbury Review Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review, Portable Muse, AAA Worldwide . Her plays have been produced at The Culture Project, Artists of Tomorrow Festival and was a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Competition 2005. She is the Literary Curator for Sunday Night Fiction Series at KGB Bar.

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• Suzanne's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Morgan Entrekin on Publishing, Partying and Promoting
  • » Jhumpa Lahiri on PEN’s World Voices
  • » Arthur Phillips: Inside the Mind of an Eight-Time Jeopardy! Contestant
  • » Ken Foster: From Literary Impressario to Pit Bull Advocate
  • » Morgan Entrekin on Publishing, Partying and Promoting
  • » Jhumpa Lahiri on PEN’s World Voices
  • » Arthur Phillips: Inside the Mind of an Eight-Time Jeopardy! Contestant
  • » Ken Foster: From Literary Impressario to Pit Bull Advocate
  • » Despite Herself

Kevin T. S. Tang recently graduated Dartmouth College with an honors degree in English Literature, a higher honors degree in saying hi when you’re actually waving at the person behind him, and a M.A. in retracting his greetings awkwardly and running away. At Dartmouth, Kevin was prose editor of the campus literary magazine and won some awards for his fiction thesis. He is a published magazine travel & culture writer in his hometown, Taipei, Taiwan. 

• Kevin's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Gongguan Digressions // 公館漫遊
  • » Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger’s
  • » Big in Japan: A Ghost Story
  • » A Lesser Day

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.

• Zachary's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » My Kind of Utmost Tender

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

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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Anne K. Yoder is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. She is the associate books editor at PopMatters, and moonlights as a pharmacist in the West Village. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, BlackBook, and PopMatters. To contact Anne e-mail: .

• Anne 's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians
  • » Novel Appearances: French Book Art at the New York Public Library
  • » Melville House Interview

Anya Yurchyshyn is a candidate for an MFA in fiction at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Sherbert, Wednesday and Lemonade Magazine.

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Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). His first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and came out in 2002. His second collection, The Pajamaist, will be published by Copper Canyon and is forthcoming in 2006. Zapruder's poems have appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including The Boston Review, Fence, Bomb, McSweeney's, Jubilat, Conduit, Harvard Review, The New Republic and The New Yorker. He is also the co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu. Zapruder teaches creative writing in the MFA Writing Program at the New School in New York City, where he is the co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series. He also teaches as a member of the permanent faculty of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

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