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Marina Read Weiss studied English and creative writing at Amherst College, and lives in Brooklyn. Her poetry and criticism can be found or are forthcoming in 34th Parallel, Boston Review, Brink Magazine, Caper Literary Journal, Clapboard House, Explosion-Proof*, and elsewhere. She received a Fulbright in 2008.

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  • » Changing the Subject

David Winner is the fiction editor of The American, an international monthly magazine based in Rome. His writing (fiction and nonfiction) has appeared in The Village Voice, Phantasmagoria, Berkeley Fiction Review, Cortland Review, Fiction, Confrontation and British literary magazines such as Staple and Dream Catcher. He won first prize in The Ledge magazine’s 2003 Fiction Contest as well as being nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. A short film based on his story was recently shown at Cannes. 

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  • » Beat: A Morality Tale
  • » Radio Lima

Iza Wojciechowska is finishing an MFA in creative nonfiction and literary translation at Columbia University. Her writing and translations from Polish have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, InTranslation, Sweet, and The Millions, among others. She’s working on a nonfiction book about war, art, family, and a Polish palace.

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  • » IN RED by Magdalena Tulli

Jesse Workman got his MFA in Screen Writing from Boston University in 2002. He is working on a book of poetry and short stories.

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  • » Gaki

Denis Woychuk is the founder of the KGB Bar and its world-class literary series, which he began in 1994 with his friend, the novelist, Melvin Bukiet (read history). He is also the founder of the Kraine Theater (1984) and The Red Room performance space (1992). Denis is the author of Attorney for the Damned: A Lawyers Life with the Criminally Insane (The Free Press, New York, 1996) as well as two books for children. He is currently working on his second musical based of his experiences as an attorney for maximum-security mental patients. Denis now lives in Manhattan, but at heart he's still old-school Brooklyn. To contact Denis e-mail: .

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