KGB Bar

Zachary Lazar, author of EVENING’S EMPIRE: The Story of My Father’s Murder (Little, Brown & Co.), graduated from Brown University and received the Iowa Writer’s Workshop’s James Michener/Copernicus Society Award. Evening’s Empire is his third book. He lives in Southampton, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey, where he holds a 2009-2010 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. He received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Sonja Livingston, author of GHOSTBREAD (UGA Press), has earned an AWP Creative Nonfiction Award, an NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Award, and Pushcart Prize nomination for her nonfiction writing. Her work has appeared in several textbooks on writing, as well as many journals, including The Iowa Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, AGNI and others.  She holds an M.S. Ed. from SUNY Brockport and an MFA from the University of New Orleans and teaches in UCLA Extension’s Creative Writing Program. Livingston is an elementary school counselor in Rochester, New York, where she lives with her husband, the artist, Jim Mott.