Authors

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...

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...

Doug Diesenhaus is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. His book reviews and writing have been published in Poets & Writers Magazine, Publishers Weekly, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, and the Mid-American Review.

Born in Virginia in 1973, Douglas A. Martin was raised in Georgia. His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was selected by Colm Toibin as an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and has been adapted and staged by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia production “Kammer/Kammer.” His second novel, Branwell, has recently...

Elaine Equi's books include Sentences and Rain, Click and Clone, and Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems (all from Coffee House Press). A new collection, The Intangibles, was published in November of 2019. She teaches at New York University and the MFA program in creative writing at the New School.

Elizabeth Acevedo is a New York Times best selling author. She is the winner of a National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal, and the Michael L. Printz Award. Her books include The Poet X (HarperCollins, 2018), With The Fire On High (HarperCollins, 2019), and Clap When You Land (HarperCollins, 2020). Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam Champion and...

Eric Felipe-Barkin is a working filmmaker, writer, illustrator and published translator. He holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University's fiction program and regularly staffs the sundry camera departments of New York City's commercial film industry. He is currently at work on no less than twenty western short films, a Sunday comic series based on the...

Eric Nusbaum lives in Mexico City. His fiction has been published in Hobart, elimae, and Needle. His nonfiction in ESPN the Magazine, Deaspin, Slate, and The Best American Sports Writing. Reach him on Twitter @ericnus.

Erika Imberti holds a B.A. in Journalism and English Literature from Rutgers and is currently mastering the art of freelance living. She is a voracious photographer, travels on a whim, and was once awarded a trip to Switzerland for her writing. Her favorite writer is Anais Nin. To contact Erika e-mail: erika@kgbbar.com.

Brooklyn-based writer Ester Bloom's features, essays, and stories have appeared in Slate, Salon, Bite: An Anthology of Flash Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, the Hairpin, the Awl, the Toast, the Morning News, Nerve, PANK, and numerous other venues. She blogs on culture for the Huffington Post and is a columnist at the Billfold and Lilith — for which...

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Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the most popular writer among Israeli youth today. Keret started writing in 1992 and has published four books of short stories, one novella, three books of comics and a children's book. Bestsellers in Israel, his books have received international acclaim and have...

Farid Nassif was born in Boston, studied Literature at Bennington College in Vermont and is now getting his MA in English at Brooklyn College. He regularly reads from his profane yet compelling book, "Civilized Man" at Cornelia St. Cafe, Sycamore Bar, Freddie's, and numerous literary salons. He has also performed original works in countless venues...

Faruk Šehić is poet, prose writer and journalist. During the Bosnian war he was an active combatant. His most aclaimed work is novel Quiet Flows the Una (tr. Will Firth) published by Istros Books in 2016.

Filip Noterdaeme is a New-York-based artist and writer. He is is the founding director of the Homeless Museum of Art and the author of The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart (Outpost19) and Growl and Other Poems (Antoine Lefebvre Editions). He teaches art history at a number of universities across New York City and is a frequent lecturer at the...

Francesca Marais, a South African poet, has been writing since the age of thirteen. She attended Arizona State University where she obtained a B.S in Computer and Information Systems, and has taken workshops led by Kelly-Grace Thomas and Kallie Falandays. Francesca explores the world in parts, through pen and paper, and recently launched her first...