November 3, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series arrives one week early this month. Help us welcome Melissa Petro, Todd Colby, and Christy Hutchcraft to Bar on A.
Join us at 7:30 P.M.
Melissa Petro earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the New School in 2007 and is writing a memoir, in part about her experiences in the sex industry, starting when she was nineteen years old and living as a student abroad in Mexico. She is published in Post Road, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Love, Sex, Money and Work and the forthcoming anthology Sex Work Matters: Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry. The NY Times described Hos as “Eye-opening, astonishing, honest and funny… riveting, graphic, politically incorrect and mostly unquotable in this newspaper.” Melissa is currently teaching art and creative writing at a public elementary school in New York City.
Todd Colby has published four books of poetry: Ripsnort (1994), Cush (1995), Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings (2000), and Tremble & Shine (2004), all published by Soft Skull Press. Todd has performed his poetry on PBS and MTV, and his collaborative books and paintings with artist David Lantow can be seen in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art special collections libraries. Todd serves on the Board of Directors for The Poetry Project, where he has also taught several poetry workshops, and he posts new work on gleefarm.blogspot.com.
Christy Hutchcraft is a writer and teacher living in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and an MS in Adolescent Education in English Language Arts from Pace University. When not writing, reading, or daydreaming, she enjoys traveling the great wide world in search of small truths.
October 11, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Maya Pindyck, Yvonne Garrett, and Elizabeth May to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 P.M.
Maya Pindyck grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and Tel Aviv, Israel. Her first collection of poems, Friend Among Stones, won the Many Voices Project Award from New Rivers Press. Her chapbook, Locket, Master, was selected by Paul Muldoon for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Also a visual artist and co-founder of Project Voice, a growing compilation of personal abortion stories (www.theabortionproject.org), Maya earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. in education through the New York City Teaching Fellows Program. She lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
Yvonne Garrett was born on the Oregon Trail and is descended from mountain climbers and pirates. She has an MFA in Fiction from the New School, a BA in English from Smith, and is working toward a Master’s in Humanities and Social Thought at NYU. She is a reader for Barrow Street Poetry Journal, the Fiction/Poetry Editor at NYU’s Graduate Student Journal ANAMESA, Assoc. Fiction Editor at Black Lawrence Press, and has just stepped down as Prose Editor at LIT. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction has been published in The Baltimore Review, The Raleigh Quarterly, Compass Rose, The Brooklyn Rail, Alternative Press, and Thrash Metal among others. She teaches writing at the Brooklyn Veteran’s Center, lives in the East Village and hopes to one day return to the Pacific NW where the men are tall, the air is clean and the beer is good.
Elizabeth May doesn’t like women in skirts. The best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants, underneath the skirt and you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. Elizabeth thinks this is the best costume for the day. She received her MFA in creative writing from the New School in 2006.
September 1, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Shomit Barua, Nicole Spector, Matthew Quinn Martin, and Mallory Peak-Zdilar to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 P.M.
Shomit Barua is a writer operating out of Brooklyn, NY. He has an MFA in poetry from Bennington and has a small smattering of work published in minor publications. His chapbook, A Cromagnon Vocabulary is available through Primitive Press.
Nicole Audrey Spector lives off the Graham L stop with her dog and cat and roommates. She is working on several books, among them a collection of short stories from which she will read tonight.
Matthew Quinn Martin is an MFA candidate in the Stonecoast program/USM. His original screenplay Slingshot was made into a feature film, and is currently on DVD, distributed by the Weinstein Co. Matthew’s prose fiction has been published (or is forthcoming) in, Thuglit, The MFA/MFYou Literary Journal, A Twist of Noir, Eastern Standard Crime, The Oddville Press, The Flash Fiction Offensive, and The Crossing Chaos Anthology: Quantum Genre on the Planet of Arts (co-written with Libby Cudmore). His story, Command Performance, which he read the last time he was a guest of Guerrilla Lit, will appear in issue 103 of Transition Magazine. www.matthewquinnmartin.com
Mallory Peak-Zdilar is a Croatian half breed born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She studied hearing disorders at Emerson College and had a brief creative writing stint in the Netherlands with an author of erotica and the head of Amsterdam’s S&M society. Mallory Peak-Zdilar is currently working on her novel tentatively titled You’re Not A Fucking Cowboy if You’re From Wisconsin and You’re Not Fucking Happy in Your Pile of Money R U?!
August 11, 2009
Guerrilla Lit will return Wednesday, September 30th.
July 3, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes S.E. Grant, Randall J. Lotowycz, and David W. Harrington to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 P.M.
S.E. Grant lives, writes, and works (among other things) in New York City. Her fiction and work in translation has been published in The Believer, The Paramanu Pentaquark, and on Smyles & Fish. A Princeton Graduate, Grant also received an MFA from The New School, and is currently working on her third novel.
Randall J. Lotowycz earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the New School, where he realized he wanted to write fantastical and silly stories interspersed with mundane and heartfelt moments. His novel remains unfinished, though he’s currently hard at work writing the DC Comics Fandex, a deck of 75 die-cut cards featuring biographies of his favorite super-heroes and villians, which will be released by Workman Publishing in conjunction with DC Comics next spring.
David W. Harrington is a fiction writer from Hartford, Connecticut. His in-progress book, House of Hope, is a municipal employee, real estate bubble, hip hop murder mystery. David’s other projects include the websites The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator and ComplainyPants.com, a public complaint board that will launch in August 2009. David just received his MFA from Columbia University.
June 1, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Andrew Zornoza, Rachel Sontag, and Kerry Cohen to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 P.M.
Andrew Zornoza is a writer and visual artist born in Houston, Texas. He is the author of the photo-prose novel, Where I Stay (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009). His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun, H.O.W, Gastronomica and Matter Magazine, among others. He can be found teaching writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer’s Workshop.
Rachel Sontag was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. She lives in New York City. House Rules is her first book.
Kerry Cohen is the author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (Hyperion) and three young adult novels Easy (S&S), The Good Girl (Delacorte), and It’s Not You, It’s Me (Delacorte). Her fiction and nonfiction has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Babble.com, Brevity.com (forthcoming), and other journals and anthologies. She teaches at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.
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May 5, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Lee Goldberg, Meakin Armstrong, and Deenah Vollmer to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 P.M.
Lee Goldberg teaches Literature and Composition at LaGuardia Community College. He has an MFA from New School University and is a founding member of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. He is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories and has just finished his first screenplay.
Meakin Armstrong is fiction editor at Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics (guernicamag.com). For 2007, he received a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study “waitership.” Meakin is also contributor to the book, New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (Dist U of Chicago Press). Most recently, his work appeared in Our Stories Literary Journal, InDigest, Sweeeeet, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. His work is forthcoming in NOÕ Journal and an upcoming book on movies. For eight years, he worked at The New Yorker.
Originally from Los Angeles, Deenah Vollmer is a non-fiction candidate in Columbia’s MFA program. She lives in Brooklyn.
April 2, 2009
This month The Enclave Reading Series invades the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Please welcome James Freed, Jason Napoli Brooks, and Scott Geiger to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM
James Freed’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Stereogum, on NPR (Neighborhood Public Radio) in conjunction with the 2008 Whitney Biennial and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the New School and is co-founder/curator of The Enclave Reading Series. He lives in Brooklyn where he is finishing his first novel, The Unfulfilled.
Jason Napoli Brooks‘ fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, H.O.W., Pindeldyboz, and the anthology America Street (HarperCollins). His non-fiction has been featured in Tema Celeste, Zing, and Punk. Brooks was the recipient of The New School Chapbook Award for Best Fiction of 2006 for his forthcoming Shelter, a novel based on photographs, which was described by Elisa Schappell (Tin House) as “an at times nightmarish, always poetic exploration of the erotic relationship between two boys….as surprising and mysterious as desire itself.”
Scott Geiger’s fiction has earned a Pushcart Prize and a Yaddo Fellowship. New work is forthcoming this year in the Spring issue of Conjunctions and the September issue of The Believer. He also writes for Architecture Research Office, a finalist for the 2009 National Design Award for Architecture.
March 6, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Susan Buttenwieser, T.K. Dalton, and Sam J. Miller to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM
Susan Buttenwieser’s fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Failbetter, Epiphany, Ducts and other publications. She teaches creative writing in organizations for at-risk youth and communities, including the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Rikers Island.
T.K. Dalton’s short fiction appears in Red Rock Review, Denver Syntax, Peeks & Valleys, and other magazines. The Radio Year, his novel-in-progress, has earned him residencies at the Montana Artists Refuge and the Vermont Studio Center. He holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Oregon and currently teaches writing at the City University of New York.
Sam J. Miller is a writer and community organizer. His work has appeared in literary journals such as Fiction International, Fourteen Hills, Permafrost, Pindeldyboz, and The Minnesota Review—who nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of a 2008 Literary Fellowship and Residency from the Bronx Writers Center. Visit him at www.samjmiller.com, and/or drop him a line at samjmiller79@yahoo.com.
February 5, 2009
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Adam Frank Boretz, Ryan Henry Joe, and Mike Sanderson to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM
Adam Frank Boretz received an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Most recently, his fiction has appeared in Fawlt Magazine and in the forthcoming volume of Encyclopedia. He lives in Brooklyn.
Ryan Henry Joe has three interchangeable first names. He was writing a collection of short stories, then he was writing a novel, then he was back to the collection of short stories, then he was back to the novel, collection, novel, collection, novel, collection. Currently, he just needs to breathe. He lives in Manhattan.
Mike Sanderson is a psychologist and writer who’s lived in Brooklyn since before it was hip. He has many ideas
