3 AM Magazine Party Night: Tao Lin, Noah Cicero, Ellen Kennedy, Tony O'Neill, Zachery German, and Ned Vizzini

Tao Lin is the author of a poetry-collection, You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am (Action Books), a story-collection, Bed (Melville House), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee (Melville house). His collection of sex essays, Hot Asian Sex, will be published in 2008 by Fugue State Press. Tao's essays about Taiwan have appeared in McSweeney's, Elimae, and Juked. His web site is called Reader of Depressing Books.

Noah Cicero was born and lives in Youngstown, Ohio. He is the author of The Condemned (Six Gallery Press, 2006), Burning Babies (Parlor Press, 2006) and The Human War (Fugue State Press, 2003). He has had short fiction published in Identity Theory, Black Ice, Prague Literary Review, Nth Position and many other places.

Ellen Kennedy's poetry and journalism have appeared in a wide variety of publications internationally, including The New Statesman, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, Le Monde, and The Partisan Review. She currently edits Fence Magazine and is soon to be releasing a collaboration of short stories with Stephen Dixon forthcoming from Bear Parade.

In a previous life Tony O'Neill played keyboards for bands and artists as diverse as Kenickie, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Marc Almond. After moving to Los Angeles his promising career was derailed by heroin addiction, quickie marriages and crack abuse. While kicking methadone he started writing about his experiences on the periphery of the Hollywood Dream and he has been writing ever since. He lives in New York where he works a variety of odd jobs, drinks too much, worries about money, and writes.

Ned Vizzini is the author of It's Kind of a Funny Story ("insightful and utterly authentic" -- New York Times Book Review), Be More Chill ,and Teen Angst? Naaah... . His work has been has been translated into five languages (forthcoming in Chinese). He has written for New York Times Book Review, Bookslut, Dogmatika and Underground Voices. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.