Katherine Wessling
Katherine Wessling has been everything from a bicycle courier to a fashion stylist at a magazine, but she's happiest when she's writing or acting. Her personal essays have been published in Swing and Speak magazines and heard on WNYC's broadcast of NPR's Morning Edition. She's written various other bits and pieces for Marie Claire, CosmoGirl, Elle (UK), Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, (ai) performance for the planet, and Plumb. She also wrote the young reader's book, Backstage at a Movie Set. Katherine's short plays have been produced in New York City, where she's lived for many years.
Leora Klein
Leora Klein is a freelance writer who teaches eighth grade English in Manhattan. Her essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Sun, The New Jersey Jewish News, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and Yad Vashem's Martyrdom and Resistance Magazine. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in English Literature and Theatre Arts and a MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She lives in New York City and no longer accepts her parents' romantic introductions.
Heather Robinson
Heather Robinson is a Senior Writer for The New York Daily News' Big Town Big Heart section, in which she profiles New Yorkers who are making a difference via charitable or humanitarian work. She has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, New York magazine, Time Out New York, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Daily News.
Adina Kay
Adina Kay is a nonfiction writer living in New York City. She is currently finishing her MFA at Columbia University's School of the Arts and working on a nonfiction novel about growing up and getting caught amidst life, love and landscape in New York and Jerusalem. Her creative writing has been published in the Blood Orange Review and 580 Split. She loves her mother very much despite that crazy set-up.
Alix Strauss
Alix Strauss has been a featured lifestyle trend writer on national morning shows and talk shows including ABC, CBS, CNN and most recently, VH1. Her articles cover a range of topics, from beauty and food trends to celebrity interviews, appearing in an array of publications and newspapers such as: The New York Times, The New York Post, and Daily News, as well as national magazines: Time Magazine, Town & Country Travel, Travel & Leisure Golf, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, Self, Time Out, Wine Enthusiast, Esquire and Departures, among others. Her collection of shorts,The Joy of Funerals is the recent winner of the Ingram Award, and was named Best Debut Novel ...
Allyson Walters
Allyson Walters is a Chicagoan and refugee of the research sciences,which she left behind two years ago to focus on the writing she always loved. Her next stop is the School of the Art Institute, where she will begin a graduate program in writing this fall. She is currently working on her first novel, as well as a collection of short stories based on Irish and British folklore.
Rahnee Patrick
Rahnee Patrick writes fictional and non-fiction essays to explore the lives of marginal folks, particularly lives of women, Asian Americans, and people with disabilities. In 1996, Rahnee won the Women's Studies Essay Contest, Creative Category for her fictional essay The Living. In that same year, her short story Virtual Reality was awarded First Place in the short story competition of the Lester M. Wolfson Award writing contest. In 2000, Am I Who?, a non-fiction essay was first published Face2Face Press, a Web forum that discussed interracial concerns. Instructors frequently use Am I Who? as one of many representations of the Asian American experience.
Steven Sacks
Steven Sacks: Since returning to Chicago from Ecuador, where he lived for 12 years and founded the country's first certified organic farm, Steven Sacks has read his short stories on Chicago Public Radio's Writer's Block Party, at the Uptown Writer's Space, and for the "Mortified" show at the Green Mill, where he was also the featured performer for the "2007 Best of Mortified."
Philip Stone
Philip Stone is a Chicago musician and writer. He currently plays drums for the nationally touring rock band, Sanawon. His short fiction has appeared in the anthology Life Sentences (Wipf and Stock, 2007) and Montage Magazine. Philip was a Splendid Magazine music critic for several years, but stopped once the threatening hate mail mentioned his family members by name. After a two year hiatus and strong encouragement from his therapist, Philip is writing again. Philip has a day job.
Ken Kamoche
Ken Kamoche's debut collection of short stories, A Fragile Hope, made the Frank O'Connor long list in 2007 and the Commonwealth Writers First Book short list in 2008. ‘A glimpse of hope' won second prize in the Olaudah Equiano Prize for African fiction in 2007. Ken's stories have appeared in magazines like Ambit, Wasafiri, Kunapipi, New York Stories and in various anthologies, including Dreams, Miracles and Jazz recently released by Picador. For a day job, Ken works as a professor of management, currently at Nottingham Business School. He's also a columnist for the Sunday Nation. www.kenkamoche.com
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