Roberta Allen, Lynn Crawford, and Norman Lock will be reading at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM. Come join us!
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Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including Certain People (Coffee House Press) and The Daughter (Autonomedia). The Dreaming Girl is being re-released by Ellipsis Press in November 2011. Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years, has taught at Columbia University, and is currently teaching private workshops. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.robertaallen.com
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Lynn Crawford is the author of several books of fiction, including Fortification Resort, Simply Separate People, and most recently, Simply Separate People, Two. Her work appears in various anthologies including: The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press), marks, Fence Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail Anthology, The Oulipo Compendium, lacanian ink, Lilies and Cannonball Review. She is the editor of DETROIT: the journal published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). http://www.lynncrawford.net/
Norman Lock has written novels, short fiction, and poetry as well as stage, radio and screen plays. He received the 1979 Aga Kahn Prize given by The Paris Review and, most recently, the 2010 literary fiction prize from The Dactyl Foundation for his 2009 novel Shadowplay. He was awarded prose fellowships from the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts, and— for 2011—a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest book-length fictions are Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press), The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press), Grim Tales (Mud Luscious Press), and Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions (Spuyten Duyvil). Norman lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, with his wife, Helen. http://www.normanlock.com/