KGB Bar

Rachel Riederer is a regular contributor to Escobar and The Faster Times.  She has written about synesthesia, the drama of Catholic high school, and how to make algae into biodiesel.  She teaches freshman writing at Columbia. Currently, she’s at work on a book about the water politics of Lake Victoria, the source of the White Nile and the world’s largest tropical lake.

Stephanie Adams-Santos was born in Portland, OR.  She received a chapbook fellowship from the Poetry Society of America in 2009. She is currently working on a book-length collection of poems called Swarm Queen’s Crown.

Yuka Igarashi’s work has appeared in Quick Fiction and Gigantic. She is an editorial reader for One Story magazine, and she also teaches essay writing at Parsons The New School for Design. Currently, she’s at work on a collection of short slipstream stories.
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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.

Series resumes.