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Nominated by Columbia MFA faculty, our readers will charm, engage, and mystify all those in attendance with a sampling their best work. In addition, at the end of the night we will feature a reading by Columbia MFA alum Aaron Hamburger, the author of THE VIEW FROM STALIN’S HEAD and FAITH FOR BEGINNERS.

Our line-up this month:

Quressa Robinson grew up in San Francisco where she worked for a year as the Volunteer Coordinator at the original 826 Valencia. She is in the process of completing a novel tentatively titled, “Playing with Paper Dolls.” Her fuel is chocolate, wine, and many pairs of cute shoes--contributions of which would be greatly appreciated.

Claire E. Bernard is a writer and philanthropist living in New York City. Claire has a column entitled Philanthropy 2.0 on vanityfair.com, and is currently editing her first novel. She is Vice President of the Mariposa Foundation, holds BAs in Art History, Art-Semiotics, and Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and is a vegan and exercise buff.

Jamila-Khanom Allidina holds an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in Toronto, and has never worn a fat suit.

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What is Faculty Selects?  The first Thursday of each month from September through April, 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 2012!

Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.