KGB Bar

Laura Sims is the author of two books of poems: Practice, Restraint, winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, and Stranger, forthcoming from Fence Books in March of 2009. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, New England Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and she has recently published poems in the journals Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), Satellite, A Green Light(shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), and Rise Up.  With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.