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More news, my story The Doors can be found in River Styx’s latest issue: the Guide to Money and Power. The Editor Richard Newman is a mighty force in the larger literary community, and I’m very honored to be in their pages. 

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Photos of our illustrious readers Leah Bailly, Michelle Brittan, Heather Dundas, and Anthony Abboreno! Sarah Vap was sadly home with a cold. 

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Bios for our readers!

Anthony M. Abboreno is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature and Fiction Writing at the University of Southern California. Previously, he earned an MA in the same subjects from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has work forthcoming, this summer, in Reunion: The Dallas Review.

A Canadian playwright, fiction writer and journalist, Leah Bailly's writing has appeared in publications such as PANK, Prism, Room, subTerrain, Hobart, on CBC Radio and in an anthology of Las Vegas fiction “Restless City.” In 2010, she traveled to Sierra Leone, where she conducted interviews and research for her first novel titled “The Following.” In the summer of 2010, she was awarded her first Canada Council grant for development of this manuscript.

Michelle Brittan has poems published in the journals Poet Lore, The Los Angeles Review, Nimrod, Calyx, The Grove Review, and Crab Creek Review, and was the title poet for the anthology Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25.  Born in San Francisco of mixed white and Malaysian heritage, she graduated from the MFA program at California State University, Fresno.  While there, she taught poetry and composition, interned with The Normal School, and co-edited San Joaquin Review.  In 2010 she won the Academy of American Poets/Ernesto Trejo Poetry Prize, and is currently at work on her first collection of poems.

Heather Dundas has been a playwright, producer, lyricist, teaching artist, writer of cooking shows, editor of medical textbooks, and other things. Her play, Cannibals (described as “a comic reverie” by The New York Times), was published by Smith and Kraus and has been produced around the country. Stories and essays have appeared recently in PoemMemoirStory, Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, The Los Angeles Times, and The Loudest Voice Anthology.

Sarah Vap grew up in Missoula, Montana. She attended Brown University, received her MFA from Arizona State University, and is completing her PhD at the University of Southern California. Her most recent collection of poems Arco Iris was published by Saturnalia and was listed on Library Journal's Best Books of 2012. She recently received an NEA grant for her work.

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Come one, come all, to our first reading of 2013, featuring the infamous Leah Bailly, Michelle Brittan, Anthony Abboreno, Heather Dundas, and Sarah Vap! Thursday, January 24, 7:30 PM at Verdugo Bar in Highland Park, 3408 Verdugo Road, 90065.