Columbia University Faculty Selects: Michele Fialer, Billy Merrell, and Matthew Main

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

Michele Fialer is an honorably withdrawn Teamster (Local 856, SanFrancisco, CA) and is forklift certified though May of 2008.  She is currently at work on a novel, Stovepipe: A Catalogue of Swindles, which purports to be a mystery in the guise of a social realist epic set at awholesale produce terminal.

Billy Merrell is the author of Talking in the Dark, a poetry memoir (Scholastic, 2003), and co-editor for The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About LGBTQ and Other Identities (Knopf Childrens, 2006), which received a 2006 Lambda Literary Award. He is currently the Web Coordinator of Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets.

Matthew Main was born in northern California and studied at the University of California at Berkeley. He now teaches academic writing at Columbia and is completing a novel about Eden and atheism.

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 showcase some 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.