“Our Next Reading is”…
Saturday, June 13th at 6:45PM
Last reading of the season!
Your Reader/Writers (bios below):
Sally Koslow
Christine Buckley
Jeanie Thompson
The Place:KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street , 2nd Floor
The Date:
Saturday, June 13th
The Time:
6:45 p.m. As always, Trumpet Fiction is sponsored by DUCTS.org and the New York Writers Workshop.
Bios:
Sally Koslow is the author of the novel Little Pink Slips, published in April by Putnam, optioned by Lifetime TV for Women and soon to be translated into Russian, Chinese and Dutch. She has recently signed a two-novel deal with Random House/Ballantine for books to be published in 2009 and 2010. Koslow is the former editor-in-chief of both McCall’s and Lifetime Magazine, which she launched for Hearst and Disney. Prior to heading a masthead, Koslow was an editor at Mademoiselle and Woman’s Day. Currently, she teaches non-fiction writing at the New York Writer’s Workshop and Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and consults and writes for various magazines and publishing companies. Her essays and reporting have been published in the New York Observer, O The Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, More, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, Town & Country, Redbook and many other national publications. Koslow’s been a frequent guest on television and radio news programs and has lectured at Yale, Columbia, New York University and The University of Wisconsin as well as to many professional and community groups.
Christine Buckley’s travels have taken her to five continents and taught her to shear sheep, cultivate rice, sail without a G.P.S. and edit a state-run newspaper with a straight face. Her LA Weekly cover story on human trafficking was a 2008 LA Press Club and Maggie Award finalist and led to the book Slave Hunter, co-written with Aaron Cohen for Simon and Schuster Spotlight (June 2009). Christine has contributed to National Public Radio, The New York Times, Russian Newsweek, and Current TV, among others. Her reporting has also won her an Associated Press award. Born in New York and currently based in Paris, in 2009 she plans to return to Southeast Asia to work with human trafficking victims. She is working on a second book.
Jeanie Thompson has published three collections of poetry and three chapbooks, and co-edited a collection of essays by Alabama authors, with Jay Lamar. She is founding director of The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a statewide literary arts service organization. Thompson also teaches with the graduate poetry faculty in the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program. Her awards include state arts council literature fellowships in Louisiana and Alabama, and the University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Artist award for her work as a poet and arts educator. Thompson’s poems, interviews with writers, and essays about art and writing have been published in literary journals and newspapers for more than thirty years.
