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Alix Strauss a featured lifestyle trend writer on national morning shows and talk shows including ABC, CBS, CNN and most recently, The Today Show. Her articles cover a range of topics, from beauty and food trends to celebrity interviews, appearing in an array of publications such as: The New York Times, The, Time Magazine, Departures, Town & Country Travel, Travel & Leisure, Esquire and Entertainment Weekly, among others.

Her novel THE JOY OF FUNERALS was the winner of the Ingram Award, and was named Best Debut Novel by The New York Resident.  She is also the editor of HAVE I GOT A GUY FOR YOU, an anthology of mother coordinated blind date stories. Recently, Alix signed a two-book deal with Harper Collins who is publishing DEATH BECOMS THEM, a pop-culture look at notable celebrity suicides, September 2009, and BASED UPON AVAILABILITY, her second novel, due out in 2010.
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Susan Buttenwieser’s fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Ducts, KGB Bar Lit Magazine, 3am and other publications.  She teaches creative writing in organizations for underserved communities including incarcerated women and youth at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Rikers Island.  She’s also been awarded several fiction fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
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Charles Salzberg is a freelance writer who has lived in New York City his whole life and can almost find his way around Greenwich Village without a map.  He is the author of way too many non-fiction books to mention, some of them under his own name, some not.  He teaches writing at the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a Founding Member.  His first novel, Swann’s Last Song, was recently nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel.  By the time of this reading he will either be riding high and his hat will have to be two sizes larger, or he will be a disgruntled, troubled loner looking for revenge.  But he does have the reissue of On A Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place, Baseball’s 10 Worst Teams of the Century, to look forward to in the spring.