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Dale Peck is the author of The Law of Enclosures, Now It's Time to Say Goodbye, What We Lost: Based on a True Story, Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction. In August 2006: FSG will reissue Martin and John as part of the FSG Classics series. January 2007: Drift House: The First Voyage comes out in paperback; Drift House: The Amulet of Babel comes out in hardcover (Bloomsbury). May 2007: Carroll and Graf will publish a new novel, The Garden of Lost and Found.

• Dale's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Fruit Salad
  • » Fruit Salad
  • » The Ballad Of Earl King: After Goethe

Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His first novel, Prague, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and has been translated into seven languages. The Egyptologist was published in 2004 and was on not eleven but twelve 2004 Best Fiction Lists. His novel Angelica is coming out in 2007.

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Leland Pitts-Gonzalez has been published in Open City, Drunken Boat, Fence and Fourteen Hills, among other literary magazines.  He has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Columbia University where he wrote a collection of short stories, The Blue Dot.  He’s working on a novel tentatively titled Spontaneous. Leland grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Queens, New York. Contact him at: .

• Leland's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Grief!

John Radosta lives with his wife in son in Boston and teaches high
school English. He is an avid brewer, and loves gadgets.

• John's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Strangers In the Living Room

John Reed received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University; writing has appeared in such venues as Bomb Magazine, The New York Press, New York Arts, Cover Magazine, Paper Magazine, Timeout New York, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Artnet, Open City and Playboy; Books Editor of the Brooklyn Rail since 2004; author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press 2000/2001), THE WHOLE (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster 2005), the 2004 bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof Books 2002/2003), and a yet untitled “New Play by William Shakespeare” (Penguin, 2008); teaches at New School University.

• John's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Notes from the Undercard
  • » Easyreeder

Author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press),THE WHOLE (MTV / Simon & Schuster), the SPD bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof), ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Penguin/Plume), and TALES OF WOE (MTV Press); MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University; published in Open City, Artnet, Paper Magazine, Popmatters, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Timeout New York, Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal; current member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.  More at JohnReed.org

• John's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Heaven Help Us, Heaven Forgive Us

J.E. Reich hails originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and recently completed her BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. Forthcoming publications include stories in plain china, the nationally-recognized anthology of the best undergraduate writing, and in Underground Voices.  Recent writing credits include short stories in Paradigm Journal, Blast Magazine, Zygote in my Coffee, the Emerson Review, and Frostwriting.  Reich was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (results forthcoming), and an EVVY Award in “Outstanding Prose: Fiction” for her manuscript, “Days of Sound” and Other Stories.  Reich is currently completing her MA in English Literature at Brooklyn College and working on her first novel.

• J.E.'s Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Love, I Am Ashes

Chad Curtis Rose is a writer from Rochester, New York.  He has been writing poetry for more than 25 years, and is currently working on a memoir that reveals the trials and tribulations of living with Bipolar Disorder. 

• Chad Curtis 's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » KGB Interview: Dan North

Melissa Rosen is a soon-to-be graduate of New York University where she studies Media, Culture, and Communication. She writes fiction, short films, sitcoms, and sketch comedy.

• Melissa's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Mister G

Randy Rosenthal has a BA from UCLA and a MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. His work has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, fourpaperletters, and Promethean. He teaches at Kingsborough College and lives in Brooklyn. 

• Randy's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » The Insufferable Gaucho

Tori Schacht graduated with a degree in English literature from Hamilton College. She spent a year riding motorbikes over precipitous terrain, attending the weddings of strangers, and learning to appreciate air conditioning as an English teacher in Indonesia. Since then she’s worked in book publishing in New York. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Rain Taxi, and Full Stop, and her reviews have been featured in the Powell’s Review-a-Day.

• Tori's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » LIGHTNING RODS by Helen DeWitt

Audrey Schomer is a freelance reader, writer and lover of the arts living in New York City. A New England native, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Film Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 2007. Contact her at

• Audrey's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright

Chandler Klang Smith is a graduate of Bennington College and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where she received a Writing Fellowship.  She has worked as a reader for the Columbia Journal and the Paris Review. She has also ghost-written two YA novels for Alloy Entertainment Group and taught creative writing in Columbia’s Double Discovery and INTRO programs. An excerpt from her unpublished novel Goldenland Past Dark won the Bronx Writers Center Chapter One award in 2006; the complete manuscript was nominated for a Pushcart Editor’s Book Award in 2009 and received an Honorable Mention in the Leapfrog Fiction contest in 2010.  She currently lives in New York City, where she works in publishing and as the Events Coordinator for the KGB Bar.  More of her thoughts on books, movies, and narrative can be found at her blog The Chaw Shop (http://chawshop.blogspot.com/).

• Chandler Klang's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » The Kasahara School of Nihilism
  • » Pirate Talk
  • » The Universe in Miniature in Miniature
  • » Gryphon
  • » The Dewey Decimal System by Nathan Larson

Jeff Somers was born in Jersey City, New Jersey; they have yet to name anything after him.  He has published six novels, five of which (the Avery Cate series) people have actually read.  He’s also published dozens of short stories, including “Ringing the Changes”, which was included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 edited by Scott Turow.  He maintains a blog at http://www.jeffreysomers.com where he sometimes reveals terrible secrets and then has to buy everyone’s silence.

• Jeff's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Sean Ferrell Interview: Under the Umbrella

Jason Starr, born in Brooklyn, has been compared to Jim Thompson and James M. Cain. His novel Tough Luck won the Barry Award, and the Anthony Award for Twisted City. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.

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David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and journalist. His publications include four collections of single-panel cartoons—including his most recent BADDIES (Melville House 2009)—and he has written on arts and culture for The Believer, Nextbook, St. Petersburg Times, Jerusalem Post, and Ha’aretz. His fiction has appeared in the UK’s Ambit. Born to ex-Soviet parents in Ashdod, Israel, Stromberg grew up in urban Los Angeles, and currently resides in Jerusalem. This piece is an excerpt from his novel: In Search of Yana.

• David's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » In Search of Yana

Kendra Sullivan lives in Brooklyn. She studied painting at NYU, where she received the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Poetry. She's worked at Poets House, Apex Art, Archipelago Books, Pequod, and The Center for Book Arts. Last summer she taught arts and crafts in Central America. She'd like to go back. Kendra is also a monthly columnist for KGB BAR LIT. To contact Kendra e-mail: . 

• Kendra 's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » City Grid: A Column of Intersecting Cultural Experiences

Suzanne Dottino received her MFA in writing (nonfiction) from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The American, http://www.theamericanmag.com/article.php?article=2817&p=9 Esopus.com, Heeb.com, The Bloomsbury Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review, Portable Muse. Her plays have been produced at The Culture Project, Artists of Tomorrow Festival, Horsetrade Theater and was a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Competition. She is the Literary Director for Sunday Night Fiction Series at KGB Bar.

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• Suzanne's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Morgan Entrekin on Publishing, Partying and Promoting
  • » Jhumpa Lahiri on PEN’s World Voices
  • » Arthur Phillips: Inside the Mind of an Eight-Time Jeopardy! Contestant
  • » Ken Foster: From Literary Impressario to Pit Bull Advocate
  • » Morgan Entrekin on Publishing, Partying and Promoting
  • » Jhumpa Lahiri on PEN’s World Voices
  • » Arthur Phillips: Inside the Mind of an Eight-Time Jeopardy! Contestant
  • » Ken Foster: From Literary Impressario to Pit Bull Advocate
  • » Despite Herself
  • » Review of Am I a Redundant Human Being?

McGrath Tandy is a writer living in the beautiful bowels of Brooklyn, working as an editor for an interior design trade publication. She holds a Master’s in 20th Century Literature from Brooklyn College (wildly useful) and is currently working on a memoir.

• McGrath's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Daddy’s

Kevin T. S. Tang recently graduated Dartmouth College with a honors degree in English, a post-bac in saying hi when you’re actually waving at the person behind him, and a M.A. in retracting his greetings awkwardly and running away. Besides his short stories and book reviews, Kevin has also published a translation of Huang Fan’s short story on Words Without Borders. He is now an MFA student at Columbia University. You can also find Kevin’s design portfolio at: http://kevintstang.com/

• Kevin's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Gongguan Digressions // 公館漫遊
  • » Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger’s
  • » Big in Japan: A Ghost Story
  • » A Lesser Day
  • » Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever

After working briefly as a teacher, and then in magazines, Sarah Twombly found her way to book publishing. She works at a boutique literary agency, and is also enrolled at Vermont College of Fine Arts for her MFA in fiction. She lives in New Jersey, nowhere near the Jersey Shore.

• Sarah's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » The Correspondence Artist
  • » NETSUKE by Rikki Ducornet
  • » CHILD WONDER by Roy Jacobsen

Jennifer Udden works at a literary agency in New York City. All of her various time-wasting pursuits, including her blog, Twitter, and pictures of fluffy dogs with moustaches on tumblr, can be found at http://www.jenniferudden.com.

• Jennifer's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » VOLT by Alan Heathcock
  • » Jesmyn Ward - SALVAGE THE BONES

Guatemalan-born David Unger is the author of Life in the Damn Tropics (Syracuse University Press, 2002, Wisconsin University Press, 2004, [Vivir en el maldito trópico. Random House Mondadori, Mexico, 2004; Recorded Books 2005; Locus Publishing, Taiwan, 2006 and Yingpan Brother Publishing, China, 2007]).

His short stories have appeared in Playboy Mexico (October 2005), Currents from the Dancing River: New Writing By Latinos (New York: Harcourt), Tropical Synagogues: Latin American Jewish Fiction (New York: Holmes and Meiers), and in literary journals here and abroad. His new novel, In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful, has just begun making the rounds with publishers. He has translated eleven books, among them Teresa Cárdenas’s Letters to My Mother (Groundwood Books, 2006), Rigoberta Menchú’s The Honey Jar (Groundwood Books, 2006) and The Girl from Chimel (Groundwood Books, 2005), Ana María Machado’s Me in the Middle (Groundwood Press, 2002), Silvia Molina’s The Love You Promised Me (Curbstone Press,1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and shortlisted for the 2001 IMPAC Prize); The Popol Vuh (Groundwood Press, 1999); Elena Garro’s First Love (Curbstone Press); Bárbara Jacobs’ The Dead Leaves (Curbstone Press); and Nicanor Parra’s Antipoems: New and Selected (New Directions). He is the recipient of several prizes including the 1998 Ivri-Nasawi Institute Poetry Prize, and he shared in the 1997 ALTA Translation Prize for Roque Dalton’s Small Hours of the Night (Curbstone Press). He serves on the advisory board of Críticas Magazine, Curbstone Press and the Multicultural Review. He teaches Translation in the City College of New York’s MFA Program.

Life in the Damn Tropics: A Novel (Paperback) by David Unger

• David's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Passover Eve

Zachary Tyler Vickers has appeared in The Emerson Review, H-NGM-N Journal, mud luscious, The Idiom Magazine, as well as elsewhere.  He is an Iowa Writers’ Workshop fellow and an SLS fellow.  He has completed his first collection of stories entitled, “Disfigured Paper Animals,” and is currently working on another collection and a novel.

• Zachary's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » My Kind of Utmost Tender

James Warner’s short stories have appeared in Narrative, Ninth Letter, Agni Online, and elsewhere. His non-fiction has appeared in OpenDemocracy and the Rumpus. His novel All Her Father’s Guns was released this year by Numina Press.

• James's Articles at KGB Bar Lit:
  • » Many Islands