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Rivka Galchen is the author of the acclaimed novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. Her essays and stories have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

Amy Bergen is a second-year fiction student from Columbus, Ohio. When she’s not reading or writing she tutors kids or watches television.

Alexandra Kjuchukova was born and grew up in Bulgaria. That’s where she first learned to ride a bike. In 2004 she moved to Boston, where she got a BA in Math, incurring only minor damage to the psyche. She is now a second year student at the MFA program at NYU.

Sam Schreiber was born in Baltimore, grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has spent altogether too much time in the Midwest.  His fiction has appeared in Lambeth Quarterly and his music journalism in College News, urbancode Magazine, and the Chicago Music Project.  Sam is a second-year MFA candidate at New York University and is hoping the title of his upcoming novel, All the Way Nowhere is not apocryphal.

Nick Thran’s debut collection of poetry, Every Inadequate Name, was a finalist for the 2007 Gerald Lampert Award, administered by The League of Canadian Poets for the the best first book of poetry published in a given calendar year.  He’s in the program working on his second collection, Earworm.  After growing up in western Canada, southern California and southern Spain, Nick has spent the last six years living and working in Toronto. He now lives in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn with his partner, the Canadian poet Sue Sinclair.

About the Series: NYU Emerging Writers Series

THE EMERGING WRITERS READING SERIES showcases the students of the NYU graduate Creative Writing Program, and feature established writers as special guests.