DATE: Wednesday January 24, 2007
TIME: 7:00-9:30 PM (Doors at 7PM, Readings begin at 7:30PM)
LOCATION: KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. at 2nd Ave., New York, NY
COST: Free
OPEN TO: All

Elisa Albert is the author of the short-story collection How This Night Is Different (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, July 2006) and editor-at-large of Jewcy. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in Washington Square, Nextbook, and the anthologies Body Outlaws (Seal Press, 2004), The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt (Dutton, 2005), and the forthcoming Eight Nights (Algonquin, 2007). Free Press will publish her first novel in early 2008.

Miriam Datskovsky is a 21 year old writer and a senior at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she studies human rights and political science. Ms. Datskovsky is the Editorial Page Editor for the Columbia Daily Spectator, authors the newspaper’s bi-weekly sex column, and speaks and writes about relationships.

Allen Ellenzweig has published as a critic, cultural journalist, and commentator. He is a founding member and President of the Board of The Robert Giard Foundation and a Contributing Writer to the Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. His work has appeared in Art in America, The Village Voice, PASSION: The Magazine of Paris, and Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review. He has published short fiction and recently completed a novel. In 1992, his book, The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe? was published by Columbia University Press.

Wayne Koestenbaum is a Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and currently also a Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Art. He has published five books of poetry: Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films , Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and five books of nonfiction: Andy Warhol, Cleavage, Jackie Under My Skin, The Queen’s Throat and Double Talk. His next book, Hotel Theory, will be published in spring 2007 by Soft Skull Press.

Mindy Raf is a stand-up comic, actress, and writer living in New York City. Mindy authors a widely-read relationship column on Collegehumor.com that has been featured in The New Yorker and the New York Post . Mindy is also a regular actor for the popular Internet sketch comedy program, The Post Show, a frequent podcaster on VH1’s Best Night Ever, and a comedy writer for WABC radio.

Rachel Shukert is a playwright, performer and author, born in Omaha, Nebraska. Beyond the stage she has been published by Nerve.com, Culturebot.org, HEEB, McSweeney’s, and Critical Moment. Rachel’s collection of essays, “Have You No Shame?” will be published by Random House/Villard in 2007.

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