KGB Bar

Elizabeth Isadora Gold’s work has appeared in The Believer, Tin House, Time Out New York, and numerous anthologies.  Her memoir, Philly Soul, is about Rhythm & Blues, and growing up bohemian.  She’s currently working on DON’T TOUCH ME!, a surreal novel about a born-again Christian pop singer reality-TV star, and an opera libretto based on Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber.  She lives in Brooklyn.

Jacob Osterhout is a features reporter for the New York Daily News, and he writes a weekly column for Sports Illustrated online. He has won no literary awards, but he did once get a smiley face from his 11th grade English teacher for an essay on Macbeth. He will be reading an excerpt from Dos Gringos, a novel about the misadventures of two best friends who work at a local restaurant in Quito, Ecuador.

Kristina Hummel’s poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Agni, Colorado Review, Diagram, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere.  She has a chapbook forthcoming from handheld editions.  She teaches writing at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science and at Baruch College.