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C.K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Singing (2003), which won the National Book Award, and Repair, winner of a Pulitzer Prize. His new book of poems, Wait, is due in April 2010.

Christopher Baughman is a second-year MFA student in Fiction at NYU.

Anelise Chen is a first-year MFA student in Fiction at NYU.

Erica Kalnay currently a second-year MFA student in Poetry at NYU.  She previously studied Creative Writing at Iowa as an undergraduate.  Her interests, in writing and life, include children and childhood, animal rights, mental health, and how people survive through trauma and pain.

Alex Morris hails from Mobile, Alabama. He believes in the Trinity and loves his mother. After attending Loyola University New Orleans, he moved to Boston where he took up waiting tables and playing in a mostly unsuccessful bicycle travel band called the “Minstrel Cyclists.” He is first year poet at NYU, a non-smoker, and loves to talk about his feelings. One little known fact about Alex is that he is the original model for the Honey Bear squeeze bottle.

About the Series: NYU Emerging Writers

The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the students of the NYU graduate Creative Writing Program, and features established writers as special guests.