The CUNY Writers’ Institute Introduces New Writers
FREE Public Reading at KGB Bar, Feb 4, 2011, 7 pm
The Writers’ Institute is pleased to announce a reading from some of the most promising authors of its inaugural fiction stream class. Jonathan Galassi, faculty of the Writers’ Institute and president of Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, will present the reading, and introduce the work of three new authors, all fellows of the Writers’ Institute class of 2010 - 2011.
“This is the first year that the Writers’ Institute has offered a fiction stream and I am very pleased with the level of the work that was brought into the workshop,” says Galassi. “I had a wonderful experience working with these exciting, emerging writers and I am pleased to be able to introduce a few outstanding new voices to a wider audience,” Galassi says.
Reading from their works-in-progress are Humera Afridi, Debora Kuan and Martin Quinn. The reading will be at KGB Bar at 85 East 4th Street on Feb 4, 2011 at 7 pm. It is a free event to the public.
Writer Bios:
Humera Afridi, moved to New York City in 2001 to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at NYU, where she was the recipient of a New York Times Fellowship. Humera’s work has appeared, amongst other publications, in Pakistan’s news weekly,The Friday Times, The New York Times, and in the anthologies, Leaving Home (Oxford University, 2001), 110 Stories. New York Writes After September 11 (NYU Press 2002) and in And the World Changed (The Feminist Press, 2008).
Debora Kuan is a poet, writer, and art critic. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the recipient of a Fulbright media arts scholarship (Taiwan), University of Iowa Graduate Merit Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholarship, and Pushcart Prize nomination. Her first poetry collection, XING, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in Fall 2011.
Martin Quinn was born in Limerick. After graduate study in engineering, he worked as a proprietary trader in currencies and fixed income in London and Greenwich, CT. His work has appeared in Arena and Esquire (UK).
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