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

	Sarah Micklem, whose second novel, Wildfire, the sequel to Firethorn has recently been published by Scribner. She is working on the third book in the series.
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	Alisa Kwitney, whose most recent novels include, writing as Alisa Sheckley, The Better to Hold You and Moonburn, a two-part series about a young woman who contracts lycanthropy from her cheating husband. Her next project is a Vertigo graphic novel about a little old Jewish lady and the angel of death.

Wednesday October 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:

	Michael Cisco, author of International Horror Writers Guild award–winning The Divinity Student,  as well as author of The San Veneficio Canon, The Traitor, and The Tyrant.
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	John Langan, whose first novel, House of Windows, was recently published.  His collection, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award.  His novella, “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky” appears in John Joseph Adams’s By Blood We Live.

Wednesday October 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:

	Andrew Fox‘s most recently published novel is The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501, published in April, 2009.  Upcoming novels include a Hurricane Katrina-inspired fantasy, The Bad Luck Spirits’ Social Aid and Pleasure Club, and a Civil War steampunk dark fantasy, Fire on Iron.
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	Chris Genoa is the author of Foop! and the forthcoming novel Lick Your Neighbor, which will appear in 2010. He recently finished his third novel, The Monkey & the Barrel: A Novel of Kung Fu and Twisted Love, and is at work on a children’s book, Tony Spumoni…Has Lost His Evil Hamster.

Wednesday September 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:

	Kaaron Warren whose multi award-winning short fiction has been published in Australia, Europe, and the US and is collected in The Grinding House, published in the United States as The Glass Woman. Her first novel, Slights, was launched at Worldcon in Montreal, by Angry Robot, followed by Mistification and Walking the Tree.
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	Robert Freeman Wexler‘s most recent fiction publication is the novel, The Painting and the City, from PS Publishing. He is currently working as-yet untitled maybe- novella set the locale he first visited in his critically praised novella In Springdale Town.

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Wednesday August 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:

A Clarion West Special Event

With Samuel R. Delany, Jack Womack, Cat Rambo, Kris Dikeman and guest-hosted by Rajan Khanna, July 15, 2009

In honor of 25 consecutive years of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and Amazon.com’s challenge grant, the KGB Fantastic Fiction series will be featuring a special Clarion West reading on July 15, 2009.

Clarion West is a non-profit literary organization that administers the Clarion West Writers Workshop, an intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy, held annually in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Amazon.com has pledged to donate one dollar to Clarion West for every dollar the workshop receives from individuals, corporations, government offices, charitable foundations, and special events.

	Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic who lives in New York City a teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. His books include Nova, Dhalgren, Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories, Atlantis: Three Tales, and his most recent novel, Dark Reflections, won the 2008 Stonewall Book Award and was a runner-up for that years Lambda Literary Award. His forthcoming novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders will appear from Alyson Books in 2010.
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	Jack Womack is the author of Ambient, Terraplane, Heathern, Elvissey, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, and Going, Going, Gone. He was in 1994 a co-winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and has twice taught writing at Clarion West.  He is Publicity Manager for Orbit Books US, and is presently working on his next novel, Ashland: A Kentucky Murder Ballad.
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	Cat Rambo attended Clarion West in 2005 and since then has published dozens of short stories in such markets as Weird Tales, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld. Her collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories, appeared in 2007 and her first solo collection, Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight, is forthcoming from Paper Golem Press. She is also the managing editor of Fantasy Magazine.
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Kris Dikeman is a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2005. Her work has appeared in Sybil’s Garage, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and the forthcoming Year’s Best Fantasy #9. She was a finalist for this year’s Story South Million Writer’s Award.
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Rajan Khanna is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop.His work has appeared in Shimmer Magazine. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY.

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Wednesday July 15th, 7pm at

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

	Brian Francis Slattery, author of Spaceman Blues: A Love Song and Liberation. He has a story coming out in Interfictions 2, which is due out near the end of the year.
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Mary Robinette Kowal is the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has sold short fiction to Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov’s. Her short story “Evil Robot Monkey” has been nominated for a Hugo. Shades of Milk and Honey, her first novel, will be out in the spring of 2010.

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Wednesday June 17th, 7pm at

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

	F. Brett Cox‘s most recent fiction publication was “Mary of the New Dispensation” in Postscripts 13. Forthcoming stories in 2009 are “She Hears Music Up Above” in the original anthology Phantom (Prime Books) and “Nylon Seam” in the Interfictions 2 Online Annex.
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	Naomi Novik is the author of the bestselling Temeraire series of novels, with Victory of Eagles just out in paperback. She has a story coming out in the anthology Naked City in 2010.

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Wednesday May 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:

	Cassandra Clare is the New York Times bestselling author of City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass. City of Bones was a 2007 Locus Award finalist for Best First Novel and an American Library Association Teens Top Ten 2008 winner. She is also the author of the upcoming YA fantasy trilogy The Infernal Devices.
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	Marie Rutkoski is the author of The Cabinet of Wonders, which was a finalist for a Cybils award and received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. She was also profiled by that journal as one of the promising debut authors of 2008. The next book in her series is called The Celestial Globe, and will be published in March 2010.

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Wednesday April 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:

	Stewart O’Nan, author of novels such as A Prayer for the Dying, Snow Angels, The Night Country, and two nonfiction books, The Circus Fire and Faithful : Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (with Stephen King). His novel, Songs for the Missing and his screenplay “Poe” have just been published
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	Paul Tremblay, author of the collection Compositions for the Young and Old and the hard-boiled/dark fantasy novella City Pier: Above and Below. He’s also edited fiction for a website, a magazine, and several anthologies. His first novel, The Little Sleep–just out –has won praise from Joe R. Lansdale and (coincidently enough) Stewart O’Nan.

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Wednesday March 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:

	JAMES MORROW‘s two newest publications are the trade paperback of The Philosopher’s Apprentice, described by the author as “Lolita meets Pygmalion on the Island of Dr. Moreau;” and the stand-alone historical novella, Shambling Towards Hiroshima, set in the summer of 1945 and dramatizing the U.S. Navy’s efforts to leverage an unconditional Japanese surrender through giant mutant iguanas that strangely anticipate Godzilla.
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	LAIRD BARRON is the author of a dark fantasy collection The Imago Sequence & Other Stories. His collection will be released January 15th in trade paperback , and an original novelette “Catch Hell” will appear in Ellen Datlow’s upcoming Lovecraft Unbound anthology.

* Mobile Libris will be there selling books

Wednesday February 18th, 7pm at

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

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