KGB Bar

COMING OF AGE ON THE PAGE featuring JONATHAN LIEBSON, KAROL NIELSEN and ERIK RHEY

In the fifth event presented by NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and literary venue KGB Bar, three NYU-SCPS writing instructors working and teaching in a variety of genres will read from their work:

JONATHAN LIEBSON is the author of the novel A Body at Rest , forthcoming from RiverCity Publishing in 2010.  His stories and reviews have appeared in Chelsea, Meridian, Fifth Wednesday Journal, the Harvard Review, and the Georgia Review, among others, and his fiction was selected for the InterAct Theatre Company’s Writing Aloud series.  A graduate of the MFA program at New York University, he currently teaches “Coming of Age on the Page” at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where he is scheduled to teach “Fiction Writing I” in the Spring.  To see some of Jonathan’s writing and photographs, visit his website: jonathanliebson.com.

KAROL NIELSEN is the author of Black Elephants, a Gulf War memoir forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press.  “Litmus Test,” a chapter of her memoir, was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2005.  Her poetry collection was a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry in 2007.  Karol is the senior editor of Epiphany, an award-winning literary magazine, and an instructor at NYU-SCPS, where she has taught “Writing Your Memoirs” and “Improving Writing Skills.” A journalist for more than 15 years, she has covered Latin America, the Middle East, and New York City, as well as international finance—contributing to the New York Times as a stringer, New York Newsday, and other publications.

ERIK RHEY is a fiction writer and journalist originally from Wisconsin.  His stories and essays have appeared in Lost Magazine, Plum Biscuit, Swindle, and other publications.  He is also the senior editor of PC Magazine and writes frequently about technology.  Erik currently teaches “Writing for Websites, Podcasts, and Streaming Video” at SCPS and is scheduled to do so again in the Spring.