Alyson Greenfield
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Alyson Greenfield is a Brooklyn based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who experiments with pianos, guitars, glockenspiels, chord organs, synthesizers, and vintage Casio beats. Alyson’s music has been recognized by Paste, Relix, Beyond Race, The Deli, CTN-Music, and more, and her music has been heard on Fox Television, Rubyfruit Radio (SPIN Magazine’s Essential Mix), and at festivals such as the CMJ Music Marathon, Estrojam, Ladyfest, and EarthFusion. She recently released her first full-length album, “Tuscaloosa,” engineered by Denise Barbarita (David Byrne, Mary J. Blige), and featuring Jason Mercer (Ani DiFranco) on bass. As well as performing on her own, Alyson also performs with the electronic band Future Rock (Matisyhau, The Disco …
Maureen McLane
Maureen N. McLane grew up in upstate New York and was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of two books of poems, World Enough (2010) and Same Life (2008), and a poetry chapbook, This Carrying Life (2005). She has also published two books of literary criticism: Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (2008) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (2000, 2006); she co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008). A contributing editor at Boston Review, she was for years the chief poetry critic of the Chicago Tribune; her articles on poetry, contemporary fiction, and sexuality have appeared widely, …
René Georg Vasicek
René Georg Vasicek is a 2009 Artists’ Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Camera Obscura, The Delinquent (UK), High Times, Mid-American Review, Minnetonka Review, Post Road, The Prague Revue, The Wanderlust Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Hofstra University and Lehman College of the City University of New York. René lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife and son. This presentation is co-sponsored by Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) and Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program of NYFA.
Janis Hubschman
Janis Hubschman’s short stories have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, The Saint Ann’s Review, Front Porch Journal, Literary Mama, Storyglossia, and most recently The Foundling Review. One of her stories was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s June 2009 Open Fiction contest. Another story was chosen as one of the best online stories of 2008 by the Million Writers Award. She has also published essays in The New York Times and poetry in MSS. Janis is a co-founder and co-director of the Montclair Writing Workshops, a creative writing school in Montclair, New Jersey. She is also an adjunct professor at Montclair State University where she teaches composition and literature.
Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Hoops was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature – Poetry. His third volume of poetry Holding Company is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced …
Roya Movafegh
Born in Austria to Iranian parents, Roya Movafegh moved to her native country as a little girl only to escape it five years later due to the heavy persecutions her family faced as Baha’is. By the age of twelve, she had lived in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She quickly learned what it meant to fall short of the criteria of societies and nations – her coloring was too dark, her religion worthy of torture and death, her nationality best kept a secret, and her new language considered a threat. Thirty years later, her journeys have finally culminated into The People With No Camel, where she not only …
Sara Barron
Sara Barron is the author of the essay collection People Are Unappealing. Her work has also appeared on Showtime’s “This American Life,” NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” The Today Show, and at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen Colorado. She’s a frequent host at The Moth and a teacher at Gotham Writer’s Workshop. http://sarabarron.com.
Jason Koo
Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island, winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize (C&R Press, 2009). He was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA in English from Yale, his MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston and his PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review and The Missouri Review. He teaches at NYU and Lehman College …
Manijeh Nasrabadi
Manijeh Nasrabadi is co-director of the Association of Iranian American Writers. She received her BA in literature from Brown University and her MFA in creative nonfiction from Hunter College, where she also taught creative writing workshops for several years. She was a 2008 recipient of a Hedgebrook writing residency and 2005 Hertog Fellow. Currently, she’s a doctoral student in American Studies at New York University. Her essays and articles have appeared in About Face (Seal Press), Hyphen Magazine, Tehran Bureau and Callaloo. She is writing a memoir about her relationships with her Jewish American and Iranian Zoroastrian families, in the US and in Iran.
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts was born in a city in San Diego and raised in Suitland, MD, a small city in the DC Metropolitan area. He is the National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Justice and the Program Director for the DC Creative Writing Workshop. His memoir, A Question of Freedom, shows his journey away from the neighborhoods he called home to the prison cells where he spent most of his teenage years and early 20s. The Washington Post ran a front-page profile about Dwayne and YoungMenRead, a book club he began for boys. He has also been profiled on the front page of the Baltimore Sun and has given commentary …
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