Authors

Katie Degentesh’s first book, The Anger Scale (Combo, 2006), was featured in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets Series. Her work has been reviewed or featured in venues such as The Believer, the Chicago Review, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. She lives in New York City, where she works as a digital creative...

Kelly Braffet's first novel, Josie and Jack, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005. It was praised as "wicked fun . . . a gothic tour of hell" (Los Angeles Times) and "a compelling study of love, hate, and psychopathic jealousy" (New York Post). Braffet was born in Long Beach, California, in 1976, and has lived in Arizona, rural Pennsylvania...

Ken Bruen, born in Galway, Ireland, is the author of more than a dozen extremely dark crime novels. His book The Guards, which began the Jack Taylor series, was nominated for every single award in the mystery field, and won the Shamus Award. Mr. Bruen has a PhD in metaphysics and taught for 25 years in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia.

Ken Foster is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Dogs Who Found Me, and a collection of stories, The Kind I'm Likely To Get, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also the editor of two anthologies: The KGB Bar Reader and Dog Culture. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Bark, The Believer, Urban Dog, Salon,...

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...

Kevin Adkins recieved a BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA in Screenwriting from Chapman University.

Kevin Moffett was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. His stories have received the Nelson Algren Award and the Pushcart Prize, and have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, StoryQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. “Tattooizm,” originally published in Tin House, is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories 2006. His first...

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...

Kunal Mehra is a multimedia artist who likes photography, filmmaking, writing and hiking. He grew up in India and has been living in Portland, OR, since 2002. His writing has been published by the Press Pause Press, The Mindful Word and ‘Academy of heart and mind’ magazines, amongst others. 

Leah Erickson’s work has appeared at many literary magazines, such as Pantheon, The Saint Ann's Review, The Coachella Review, and many more. She is the author of the novels, "The Brambles," "Blythe of the Gates," and "The Gilded Lynx." In addition, she is the winner of numerous awards for her novels, including a gold medal at the Independent...

Leah Umansky is the author of two full length collections, The Barbarous Century, and Domestic Uncertainties. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has been the host and curator of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Thrush Poetry Journal, Glass Poetry...

Ledia Xhoga's fiction has appeared in Liars' League, Hobart, SonoraReview and other online publications. She is also the writer of VisitingHour, an award-winning short film.

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...

Linus Urgo is a writer. He also lives in Brooklyn. Everyone lives in Brooklyn

Lisa Howorth is the author of the novels Flying Shoes and Summerlings and a co-owner of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi.