Fiction: Dawn Raffel, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Diane Williams

Terese Svoboda was called a "fabulous fabulist" by Publisher's Weekly, for her most recent novel, Tin God.

Diane Williams is the author of five books of fiction – the most recent is Romancer Erector. A new book – It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature – is forthcoming from FC2 in 2007. She is the founding editor of the literary annual NOON.

Dawn Raffel is the author of Carrying the Body (a novel) and In the Year of Long Division (short stories). Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, Open City, NOON, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies.

Justin Taylor is the editor of The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth, June 2007) and is also curating a collection of memories of Donald Barthelme for McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. His website is www.justintaylor.net

The reading will be hosted by Shya Scanlon, who has written every book that has ever been written.