Trumpet Fiction: Allison Estes, Susan Breen, and Mark Simon Burk

Allison Estes grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, playing on Faulkner's grave.
She works as a freelance editor and scenic artist, a horse and rider trainer,
and teaches fiction classes through the New York Writers Workshop at the
JCC. Allison has written fifteen middle grade and young adult novels, including
the Short Stirrup Club series. Paw & Order: Dramatic Investigations by an
Animal Cop on the Beat is her all-important crossover into adult non-fiction.
Allison has a daughter in college and a five-year-old son. Nowadays, if the
grave of a famous author is not readily available, she can be found playing
softball in Central Park.

Susan Breen teaches fiction classes for Gotham Writers’ Workshop in
Manhattan. Her short stories have been published by a number of literary magazines,
among them American Literary Review and North Dakota Quarterly. She is also a
contributor to The Writer and Writer’s Digest. She has an M.A. from Columbia
University and has worked as a reporter for Fortune magazine and an editor
for the Foreign Policy Association. She lives in Irvington, New York, with
her family, two dogs, and one cat. Visit _www.susanjbreen.com_
(http://www.susanjbreen.com) .

Mark Simon Burk describes himself as up-and-coming, which is the way he’s
been described for 15 year now. Mark’s fiction has been published in Literal
Latte and Nuance magazine. His work has been performed at the Neighborhood
Playhouse’s Sunday Night live read series. Mark’s written for Showtime,
developed a series for Fox starring Leslie Neilson and a film for Phillip Seymour
Hoffman entitled ‘Mr. Cellophane’. He teaches at SVA and admits to writing film
reviews and shameless celeb profiles for INTERVIEW magazine. He’ll be
reading a story from his soon-to-be completed collection ‘Damaged Goods and other
Deeply Discounted Humans’. Despite the collection’s title, he swears the
story will be humorous.