Columbia University Faculty Selects: Sharon Pacuk, Mark Bowen, and Adina Kay

Please join us for the latest undiscovered literary talents at KGB's Columbia University Writing Division Faculty Selects

Come for the talent. Stay for the camaraderie and cocktails.

Fiction writer Sharon Pacuk lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Brooklyn College. She is currently at work on a collection of interrelated stories about a multi-generation Chinese/Polish American family.

Poet Mark Bowen grew up in central Vermont. He is a former poetry editor at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art as well as a curator of the Ding Dong Lounge reading series. He will be reading from a series of poems titled "The Functionary," based on a character who can't remember what he was hired to do.

Adina Kay's nonfiction has appeared in 580 Split and the Blood Orange Review and is forthcoming in Have I Got a Guy for You, (Adams Media,April 08). Her nonfiction book-in-progress chronicles the highs and lows of`an American girl as she tries to find a home and find herself in Israel`during tempestuous times.

*What's Faculty Selects? * The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program will again host the reading series Faculty Selects started by professor Binnie Kirschenbaum. Three former students selected by the faculty will read each time. These young writers have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. This is an opportunity to showcasesome of our best writers to you.

*Faculty Selects is curated by Columbia Writing Division graduates Elyssa East and Bryan Van Dyke.

*Come for the talent. Stay for the camaraderie and cocktails.

For more info send an email to kgbcolumbia@gmail.com.