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

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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

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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

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 Ketchum, the author of four story collections (one with Edward Lee), many novellas and thirteen novels, four of which have been filmed to date — The Lost, Red, The Girl Next Door and Offspring.  He is the four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award for his fiction and Stephen King has called him “the scariest guy in America.”  His latest mass-market release is the novel Joyride, backed with the novella Weed Species.
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	Scott Edelman, whose short stories have been published in a wide range of anthologies and magazines including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, Forbidden Planets, and Postscripts. Some of them have been collected in These Words Are Haunted and in What Will Come After, the latter a complete collection of his zombie fiction, just published by PS Publishing. He’s been a Stoker Award finalist five times. Additionally, Edelman currently works for the Syfy Channel as the Editor of SCI FI Wire and was founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run. He has been nominated for the Best Editor Hugo four times.

Wednesday June 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:

	Terence Taylor, an award-winning children’s television writer whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney. After a career of comforting kids, he’s now equally devoted to scaring their parents. His short horror stories have been published in all three “Dark Dreams” horror/suspense anthologies. Bite Marks was his first novel and Blood Pressure, just out from St. Martin’s, is the second in the opening trilogy of the Vampire Testaments.
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	Leanna Renee Hieber is a actress and playwright who has adapted several works of 19th Century literature for the stage, and her one-act plays have been produced around the country. Her novella Dark Nest won the 2009 Prism Award for excellence in the genres of Futuristic, Fantasy and/or Paranormal Romance.  Her debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (which made the Barnes & Noble Bestseller List)is the first of a quartet of gothic Victorian fantasy novels published by Dorchester. The second book in the series, The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker was recently released.

Wednesday May 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:

	Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year.  Two of his story collections are The Empire of Ice Cream and The Drowned Life.  He has stories out now or forthcoming in 2010 in the anthologies: The Beastly Bride, Steampunk Reloaded, The Book of Dreams, Stories, and The Secret History of Fantasy.
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	Richard Bowes lives and writes in Manhattan. He has written five novels and two short story collections and hiswork has won World Fantasy, Lambda, International Horror Guild, and Million Writers Awards. Recent and forthcoming stories are in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The Beastly Bride, Haunted Legends, Digital Domains, Best Gay Stories 2010, and Naked City anthologies. His story, “I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said,” is currently on the ballot for the Nebula award.

Wednesday April 21st, 7pm at

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

	Michael Shea is the multi-award-winning author of such books as A Quest For Simbilis, Nifft The Lean, and Polyphemus. His most recent publications are The Extra from Tor, Copping Squid from Perilous Press, and The Autopsy And Other Tales from Centipede Press.
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	N. K. Jemisin, whose first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms — first of the Inheritance Trilogy — is out now from Orbit Books. A local writer with the “Altered Fluid” writing group, her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Postscripts (forthcoming), and Strange Horizons among other print, online, and audio markets. Her short story, “Non-Zero Probability,” was recently nominated for a Nebula Award.

Wednesday March 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:

	Peter Straub, the multi award winning writer of such novels as Ghost Story, Koko, Mr X, and In the Night Room. His most recent novel is A Dark Matter, published by Doubleday this month. He is also the editor the recent Library of America American Fantastic Tales
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	Daryl Gregory, whose first novel, Pandemonium, won the 2009 Crawford Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. His second novel, The Devil’s Alphabet, was recently named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He’s currently working on a contemporary fantasy novel unrelated to either of the first two books.

Wednesday February 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:

	David Anthony Durham, winner of the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, is the author of Acacia: The War With The Mein and its  sequel, The Other Lands. He’s currently at work on the concluding third volume.
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	Lev Grossman is the author of the novels Codex and the N.Y. Times bestselling The Magicians. He’s currently working on a sequel to The Magicians.

Wednesday January 20thth, 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:

	Andy Duncan, whose new novelette “The Night Cache” will appear from PS Publishing just in time for Christmas, as befits a ghost story, while his revisionist Appalachian folktale “The Dragaman’s Bride” concludes the new Jack Dann-Gardner Dozois anthology The Dragon Book. Duncan is the winner of two World Fantasy Awards and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science-fiction story of the year.
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	Christopher Rowe‘s short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. A Forgotten Realms novel for Wizards of the Coast is scheduled for Spring 2011, and he is hard at work on a fantasy about maps and megafauna, Sarah Across America.

Wednesday December 16th, 7pm at

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

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