Columbia University Faculty Selects: Mia Alvar, Anna Selver-Kassell, and Samuel Amadon

Please join us for the latest undiscovered literary talents at KGB's Columbia University Writing Division Faculty Selects reading series!  Just two events left this season; if you haven't come recently, please make time for our next reading this coming Thursday.  Hope to see you there!

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

Mia Alvar graduated from the Writing Division in 2007. She will read from In the Country, a collection of stories about the Philippines. Her fiction has appeared in Small Spiral Notebook, received honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007, and is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review.

Anna Selver-Kassell lives, works, plays and writes short stories in New York City.  She is currently hard at work on a collection entitled The Discovery of Loss, and she has a story forthcoming in the spring issue of Five Points.

Samuel Amadon is the author of two chapbooks, Goodnight Lung from Octopus Books and Advice for Young Couples from H_NGM_N B__KS. Recent poems have appeared or will appear in Boston Review, Cannibal, Colorado
Review, Denver Quarterly, Modern Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. Last year, he was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a scholar at the Bread Loaf  Writer's Conference.

What is 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*