THE SERIES IS ON INDEFINITE HIATUS
Wednesday, November 2
Jai Chakrabarti is a writer of poetry, fiction, and algorithms. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Rattapallax, Union Station, and other journals. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Brooklyn College.
Kate Rados is a marketer by day, a choir nerd by night, and generally hungry by Noon. In 2007, Kate launched the evergreen website IHateDuaneReade.com, and was featured in the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, and The Consumerist for her debauchery. Her blog made its swan song when Duane Reade was purchased by Walgreens. Kate celebrated by closing the site with a post featuring a Duane-Reade-logoed flaming bus plummeting off a cliff. Currently, her snark resides on Twitter @katerados.
Al Letson draws on his background as a performance poet, seamlessly weaving spoken word into the fabric of his theatre work. In 2008, Letson was one of three finalists out of more than 1,500 applicants to win the Public Radio Talent Quest, and his show, State of the Re:Union (SOTRU), is one of the fastest growing shows in public radio, airing on more than 200 stations, receiving critical acclaim and the first co-distributed program by NPR and the Public Radio Exchange. SOTRU is currently in production of its second season and is also being developed for television.
Wednesday, October 5
PHIL KAYE is a touring poet, published author, and co-director of Project V.O.I.C.E. He has appeared on NPR, performed at Lincoln Center, and is the two-time recipient of the National College Poetry Slam award for “Pushing the Art Forward”, given for outstanding innovation in the art of performance poetry – the only person to ever receive the award twice. As co-director of Project V.OI.C.E., Phil travels to colleges and high schools around the country performing his work and teaching poetry workshops, empowering students to find their own voice. His first collection of poems, A Light Bulb Symphony, was published in 2011, and his work can be found regularly in CHAOS Magazine.
PHOTOGRAHPER GERALYN SHUKWIT seeks out life and photographs the world as it appears before her – the obvious, the hidden and all that comes into view. Raised in the Detroit area, the grit of life appeals to her but it’s often the little details, hidden just beyond view, that keeps her looking.
RYAN BRITT writes fiction, non-fiction and plays. His work has been published with Nerve, Opium, Good, Clarkesworld, The New Inquiry, Soon Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ryan has told stories on stage with The Moth, The Liar Show, How I Learned, Stripped Stories, and The Story Collider. He is the staff writer for the popular science fiction and fantasy website Tor.com and teaches at The Gotham Writers Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn.
Wednesday, August 3
ERNIO HERNANDEZ is a writer of plays, poems, short stories, blogs, tweets, clever quips, to-do lists and several algebraic equations - he can show you his work (if you show yours). His plays have performed as part of The 24 Hour Plays (Cold Reading Series), LAByrinth Theatre Company (Master Class presentations) and tiny venues you never heard of. Ernio is a Leo, likes long walks on the beach and dangling his participles. Dot his com at Ernio.
MARA JEBSEN is a poet who is deeply marked by oral traditions, and interested in the staging, singing and storytelling of poetry. She studied public policy and African and African-American studies at Duke University, and holds an MFA in creative writing from NYU. Mara teaches the craft of essay-writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and at some point during her years of teaching began to learn to write an essay, herself. She was raised in Philadelphia and Lome, and now lives in Brooklyn, where she is a consummate bruncher.
STORYTELLERS’ OPEN MIC: Three slots, five minutes; first-come, first-served. Sign up at 6:30pm and share your best story with us.
Wednesday, July 6
JIM HANAS is the author of the short story collection Why They Cried, which is now available as a Joyland eBook from ECW Press. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including McSweeney’s, One Story, Slate, and the New York Post. He is the co-curator of the Brooklyn-based “useless lecture series” Adult Education and though he resides in Brooklyn, he lives online at jimhanas.com.
ISOBELLA JADE is best known as the petite model who wrote her memoir “Almost 5’4”” at the Apple store. Also she is the author of a graphic novel called, “Model Life: The Journey of a Pint-Size Fashion Warrior,” and a collection of short stories called, “Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model.” She is currently writing a YA book series and a screenplay, and has been hosting her own podcast radio show since 2007 and blogs daily at Petitemodelingtips.com. She believes best thing a person can discover is themselves.
Wednesday, June 1
JASON HELM studied French Language and Literature at the University of Minnesota, and received a Masters in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. He is currently shopping his first novel, EXPOSURE, as well as teaching writing workshops and a craft theory course called Hyperrealism at Pratt Institute. Jason hails from Iowa, is a compulsive truth teller and has a piscean fascination with all things sight-hound.
ROHIN GUHA is a fiction writer who left Michigan for New York nearly five years ago. His first collection of short stories, ‘Relief Work’ came out last December through Birds of Lace. He has written for a boatload of other places too, some which you’ve heard of, but he sees no point in mentioning those because, honestly? The only work of his you should be concerned with at the moment is ‘Relief Work.’
