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Behind the Book Reading Series Join us at the Behind the Book Reading Series at KGB Bar on Thursday, June 8, 2006, when the critically acclaimed debut novelists Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop, Emily Raboteau, Patrick Ryan, and Justin Tussing will headline the Behind the Book Reading Series. WHEN: Thursday, June 8, 2006, from 7:00-9:00pm. Admission Free. WHO: Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop was born and raised in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2001. In 2004, she received her MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine, where she was the recipient of the Schaeffer Writing Fellowship for the 2004–5 academic year. She has published stories in Wind Magazine, The Evansville Review, The Missouri Review, Red Rock Review, and The Indiana Review. She lives in Savannah, Georgia. Emily Raboteau is an assistant professor in the English Department at the City College of New York. She has an MFA in Fiction from New York University, where she was a New York Times Fellow. Her short stories have appeared in Callaloo, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Tin House, Best American Short Stories 2003, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She is a recipient of the 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose. Patrick Ryan's stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, One Story, Ontario Review, Denver Quarterly, The Nebraska Review, and other journals. The story "Getting Heavy With Fate" received the 2005 Smart Family Foundation Award for Fiction. He did his undergraduate work at Florida State University and is a graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Born in Washington, DC, and raised in Florida, he lives in New York City. He is a recipient of the 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose. Justin Tussing's short fiction has appeared in several publications, including The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, and Third Coast. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching/Writing Fellow, he has received fellowships from the James A. Michener/Copernicus Society of America and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is a former director of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio and, from 2001 to 2004, he was Writing Coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center. Justin Tussing lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a visiting assistant professor of English at Lewis & Clark College. | |||