KGB Bar

Bryan Charles is the author of Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way, a novel, and Wowee Zowee, a nonfiction work about the rock band Pavement and their album of the same name (forthcoming from 33 1/3). He was born in 1974 and raised in Galesburg, Michigan. He received his MFA in writing from Brooklyn College and his work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Third Coast, Brooklyn Review and Open City. In the fall, Open City Books will publish his memoir, There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From. He lives in Brooklyn. 

Greg Purcell’s nonfiction and poetry has been featured in Lost and Found: Stories from New York and A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years. He curates the St. Mark’s Bookshop reading Series and writes about science fiction and poetry on his blog The Supercollider (http://supercollider.noslander.com/).

Dan Sofaer graduated from the University of Chicago, and also studied classics in Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His poems are in the current issue of Open City. He lives in Woodstock, NY and Yelping Hill, Connecticut.