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Robyn Gertner’s work has appeared in Font and VOYA, and she has written for Publishers Weekly and Seventeen Magazine. She is currently working on her first novel, How to Wire a Family Tree, which is about a Brooklyn family’s battle against family genetics, Nikola Tesla, and lawn gnomes.

Johanna Lane was born in Ireland and studied English Literature at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she was awarded the Hemingway Prize for short fiction. When she graduated, the University wanted to get rid of her as quickly as possible, so they gave her money and sent her to America for an MFA in fiction at Columbia. Her first novel, recently short-listed for the University of East Anglia’s Charles Pick Fellowship, is called The Blue Edge of the World.

Mo Zee is a fiction writer and a graduate of the Columbia MFA program.

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What is Faculty Selects?  The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series with writers selected by the faculty. These fresh talents 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. In recent years, many of our featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success; this is your chance to glimpse who you’ll be reading in 2011!

Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.