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Laurie Graff is an actor/writer from the Upper West Side.  The Shiksa Syndrome is her third novel.  She’s also the author of the bestsellers: You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs and Looking for Mr. Goodfrog.  Promotional appearances include FOX & FRIENDS.  Laurie played herself in MR. RIGHT, a documentary about singles in NYC, and her favorite role was Frenchy in Broadway’s GREASE.

Michael Hawley’s short stories have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The New Yorker, The Saint Ann’s Review and Southeast Review.  A new story is forthcoming in Cimarron Review.  Michael was awarded a three-month residency through the Kerouac Project in Orlando, which he recently completed, and where he worked on his novel-in-progress. 

Michele Melnick received her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College.  Her short fiction has appeared in Many Waters, Brooklyn Review, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Eclipse and Carve Magazine.  She is currently at work on a story collection entitled The Inevitable Convergence of All Which Sing. 

Susan Tepper’s fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Salt Hill, American Letters & Commentary, Poetry Salzburg, Boston Review, Crannog and elsewhere.  Her story collection will be published this year by Wilderness House Press, and her poetry chapbook Blue Edge (Cervena Barva Press) came out in 2006.  Susan is Assistant Editor at Istanbul Literary Review (online journal based in Turkey).