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

	Jeffrey Ford‘s latest book is a collection of stories, Crackpot Palace, just out from Morrow/Harper Collins. He has new stories appearing in the July/Aug. issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and After, an anthology of post-apocalyptic and dystopian stories for young adult readers, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
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	Tenea D. Johnson is the author of two novels R/evolution and Smoketown. Her short story “Only Then Can I Sleep” will appear in Love and Darker Passions this fall and she is currently working on a spoken word album as well as the final book in the R/evolution duology. Next year, she’ll be co-editing the 2013 edition of the Heiresses of Russ anthology with Steve Berman.

Wednesday August 15th, 7pm at

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

	Ysabeau Wilce’s most recent book, Flora’s Fury, is the final volume in the Flora Fyrdraaca trilogy. She has won an Andre Norton Award, been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, been on the James Tiptree short-list, and appeared in various anthologies, most recently Steampunk! edited by Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.
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	Leah Bobet is the author of Above, a modern fantasy novel available from Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she works as an editor, bookseller, and urban agriculture/public space activist. She is currently working on a literary dustbowl fantasy novel, tentatively titledOn Roadstead Farm, and a book of poetry.

Wednesday July 18th, 7pm at

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

	Jack O’Connell‘s first novel, Box Nine, won the Mysterious Press Discovery Award. His second novel, Wireless, was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top ten crime novels of 1993. O’Connell is also the author of The Skin Palace and Word Made Flesh. His latest novel, The Resurrectionist, was chosen by Amazon.com as one of the top-10 SF novels of 2008. The winner of Le prix Mystère de la critique and Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in France, the novel was also nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award..
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	E.C. Myers, whose first novel, Fair Coin, was called “pure awesome crack” by io9.com, is also a recent contributor to the Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2, edited by John Berra and Spec-tacular: Fantasy Favorites from Raven Electrick Ink. He also blogs weekly re-watches of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes with Torie Atkinson at theviewscreen.com. His next novel, Quantum Coin, will be published by Pyr in fall 2012.

Wednesday June 20th, 7pm at

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

	Karen Heuler, whose stories have been published in over 60 literary and speculative magazines, anthologies and “Year’s Best” collections, including the forthcoming The Year’s Best SF #17. Her most recent novel is The Made-up Man, published by Livingston Press. ChiZine Publications will publish her short story collection, The Inner City, early next year.
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	Victor LaValle, whose novel, Big Machine, won the Shirley Jackson Award, the American Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His next novel, The Devil in Silver, will be published in August 2012 by Speigel & Grau.

Wednesday May 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:

Because of an illness Caitlin R. Kiernan has had to cancel so the intrepid Elizabeth Bear is stepping up to bat in her stead:

	Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She is a Hugo and Sturgeon Award winner, and her most recent novel is Range of Ghosts, an epic fantasy inspired by the history and cultures of Central Asia. She lives in a tiny town in Massachusetts with a giant ridiculous dog, but may frequently be found visiting Wisconsin, where she keeps her partner, the other guy reading tonight
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	Scott Lynch, whose current projects are the forthcoming The Republic of Thieves, third novel in the Gentleman Bastard sequence, and the ongoing Queen of the Iron Sands, a serial pulp adventure set on a hidden Mars in the early 1950s.

Wednesday April 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:

	Terry Bisson, who has a new novel, Any Day Now, an alternate history of 1968, just out from Overlook Press.  Publishers Weekly describes it as “epic.” It’s not exactly science fiction, and not exactly not. Terry is one of the founders of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series. .
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	Blake Charlton, who is author of the epic fantasies Spellwright and Spellbound from Tor Books. Charlton is also a medical student in his last year of medical clerkships and is currently working on Spellbreaker, the final novel in the Spellwright Trilogy.

Wednesday March 21st, 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:

	N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author whose debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, won the Locus award and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fourth novel, The Killing Moon, is forthcoming in May from Orbit Books. You can read some of her short fiction and excerpts of each novel at nkjemisin.com.
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	Livia Llewellyn is the author of the short story collection Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, published by Lethe Press. Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Subterranean, ChiZine, and Postscripts and will be in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four. She’s currently working on her first novel.

Wednesday February 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:

	James Patrick Kelly is best known for his short fiction, Including “Think Like A Dinosaur,”  “Ten to the Sixteenth to One” and “Burn.”   His work has been translated into nineteen languages and has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.  His most recent publishing venture is the ezine James Patrick Kelly’s Strangeways on Kindle and Nook.
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	Kelly Link is the author of three collections of stories and her fiction has won three Nebula Awards, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She recently co-edited Steampunk!: An anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories with her husband Gavin J. Grant

Wednesday January 18th, 7pm at

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

	Gemma Files is an award-winning horror writer with a twenty-year publication history whose short fiction and poetry has been published in magazines, anthologies and collections, as well as being adapted for television. She is also the author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns, Volumes One and Two in the Hexslinger Series and is currently finishing off A Tree of Bones, which will be Hexslinger Volume Three.
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	Ekaterina Sedia is the author of The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron. She is also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winner Paper Cities. Her short stories have appeared in a number of venues.

Wednesday December 21st, 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:

	Jack Womack, the author of seven novels including Random Acts of Senseless Violence, is currently working on his new novel Ashland: A Kentucky Murder Ballad, from which he’ll be reading.
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	Claude Lalumière is the author of the collection Objects of Worship and the recently published novella The Door to Lost Pages, both from CZP. He has edited nine anthologies, including the Aurora Award nominee Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction.

Wednesday November 16th, 7pm at

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