FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Kit Reed‘s recent novels include Enclave, The Baby Merchant and Thinner than Thou, which won an ALA Alex Award.  Her new short story collection, What Wolves Know,  coming out this month from PS Publishing, includes stories that originally appeared in Asimov’s SF, the Datlow/Mamatas anthology, Haunted Legends, the Yale Review and the Kenyon Review, and other venues.
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	Kris Saknussemm is the author of the novels Zanesville, Private Midnight, and now Enigmatic Pilot.  Sinister Miniatures, a short story collection and The Colors of Compulsion, a portfolio book of his paintings are also out now, with three more books scheduled for 2012.

Wednesday April 20th, 7pm at

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Carolyn Turgeon is the author of three novels: Rain Village, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story, and Mermaid, a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Her first children’s book, The Next Full Moon, about the daughter of a swan maiden, will come out in June.
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	Genevieve Valentine, whose fiction has been published on the web in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, and Subterranean, and in the anthologies Teeth, The Living Dead 2, and Running with the Pack. She co-wrote the pop-culture book Geek Wisdom and her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, is coming in May.

Wednesday March 16th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Laird Barron is the author of The Imago Sequence, and Occultation two horror collections published by Night Shade Books. The Imago Sequence won The Shirley Jackson Award. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.
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	Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of General Slocum’s Gold, Walk In Shadows, Hunt at World’s End, and Chasing the Dragon, as well as monthly columns on the horror genre that appeared in Fear Zone and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. His story “Under the Skin” will be reprinted later this year in All American Horror Stories of the 21st Century: The Best of the First Decade.

Wednesday February 16th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Gregory Frost’s Shadowbridge duology (Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet) was named one of the top four fantasy novels by the American Library Association in 2009 and was a finalist for the James Tiptree Award.  He’s currently at work on two other novel-length projects. He recently recorded his story “The Seals of New R’lyeh” for the StarShipSofa podcast site, and a series of “Darger & Surplus” podcasts with and for Michael Swanwick.
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	Linda D. Addison, award-winning author of Being Full of Light, Insubstantial is the first African-American to receive the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award. Her latest work can be found in Genesis: An Anthology of Black Science Fiction, Dark Faith, and New Blood anthologies.

Wednesday January 19th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Jon Armstrong’s Grey was short-listed for the Philip K Dick, and that year Jon was also nominated for the Campbell for Best New SF Writer. The sequel, Yarn, which will be out December 2010, received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. Jon is the host of an author interview podcast called If You’re Just Joining Us.
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	Beth Bernobich is the author of Passion Play, the first volume in a fantasy series appearing from Tor Books, and the collection, A Handful of Pearls & Other Stories. Her short story “River of Souls” appeared recently on Tor.com, and her YA novel, Fox and Phoenix, is forthcoming from Viking next year.

Wednesday December 15th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Kathe Koja‘s Under the Poppy, her first historical novel, has just been published by Small Beer Press, and has been adapted for an immersive stage production slated for 2011 at the Detroit Opera House.
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	Ben H. Winters is the author of two “mash-up” novels, Android Karenina and the New York Times bestselling Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, plus the just-published novel for young readers, The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman.  Ben’s plays and musicals, including Uncle Pirate, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, and Breaking Up is Hard To Do, have been produced Off Broadway and around the country.

Wednesday November 17th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Paul Witcover is the author of three novels: Waking Beauty, Tumbling After, and Dracula: Asylum, and one collection, Everland. His reviews appear regularly in Locus and Realms of Fantasy magazines
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	Adam Golaski, the author of the short story collections Color Plates and Worse Than Myself. He is co-founder of Flim Forum Press, publishers of experimental contemporary poetry, and the editor of New Genre Magazine. The first part of Adam’s “Green”–his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight–was recently published by Open Letters Monthly.

Wednesday October 20th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Scott Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series. His latest book, the New York Times-bestselling Leviathan, won both the Locus Award and the Aurealis Award for best YA novel of 2009. The series continues in October 2010 with Behemoth.
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	Susan Beth Pfeffer, who with the publication of her novel, This World We Live In, has completed her Last Survivors Trilogy, which also includes the New York Times Best Selling Novel, Life As We Knew It and The Dead And The Gone.  Susan’s next book, Blood Wounds, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the Fall of 2011.

Wednesday September 15th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Laura Anne Gilman is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Nebula-nominated Flesh and Fire and Hard Magic, part of the best-selling “Cosa Nostradamus” urban fantasy series.  She has also sold more than twenty-five short stories, published in magazines and anthologies such as Polyphony and Realms of Fantasy. Her forthcoming novels include Weight of Stone: Book 2 of The Vineart War, and Pack of Lies.
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	Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor 2010), the fantasy novel that Jane Austen might have written. In 2008 she received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and in 2009 her story “Evil Robot Monkey” was nominated for the Hugo Award. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Subterranean Press released her short story collection, Scenting the Dark and Other Stories, in 2009. Mary is also  a professional puppeteer

Wednesday August 18th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Catherynne M. Valente,  author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She is a finalist for the Hugo Award this year. Over the next year she has three novels and a short story collection coming out, as well as short stories in Welcome to Bordertown, Haunted Legends, and the YA vampire anthology Teeth. She’ll be reading from her upcoming novel Deathless.
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	M.K. Hobson, the author of over thirty short stories, which have been published or are forthcoming in magazines and anthologies such as SCI FICTION, Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Postscripts, Interzone, Digital Domains, Haunted Legends, and Polyphony. Her debut novel, The Native Star will be out from Bantam Spectra in September, to be followed by a sequel in the summer 2011. She is one of the co-hosts of Podcastle and is a regular reader for Fantasy Magazine‘s podcast series.

Wednesday July 21st, 7pm at

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