Behind the Book Reading Series

This Winter, join Behind the Book at KGB Bar on the second Thursday of every month:

Join us on Thursday, February 8th, for an evening of exceptional fiction by Martha Southgate, Eisa Nefertari Ulen, and Colson Whitehead in the Behind the Book Reading Series at KGB Bar.

WHEN: Thursday, February 8th, from 7:00-9:00pm. FREE.

WHERE: KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street
(between Second & Third Aves.; take the F/V to Second Ave. or the No. 6 to Astor Place).

CONTACT: 212-924-0654/readingseries@behindthebook.org or www.kgbbar.com

WHO:

Martha Southgate's first book, the young adult novel Another Way to Dance, won the Coretta Scott King Genesis Award for Best First Novel. She went on to write The Fall of Rome, which received a 2003 Alex Award from the American Library Association and was named one of the best novels of 2002 by Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post. Her most recent novel is Third Girl from the Left. She has been an editor at Essence, a reporter for Premiere and the New York Daily News, and a contributor to the New York Times; her non-fiction articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Goddard College's MFA program, and Eugene Lang College in New York City, where she also served as associate chair of the writing department. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Eisa Nefertari Ulen's first novel, Crystelle Mourning, was published in August 2006. Nominated by Essence magazine for a National Association of Black Journalists Award, she has contributed to numerous other publications, including the Washington Post, Ms., and Health, and her essays have been widely anthologized. She is the recipient of a Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center Fellowship for Young African American Fiction Writers and a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. She teaches English at Hunter College in New York City, and lives with her husband in Brooklyn.

Colson Whitehead's first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. John Henry Days, his next novel, won the Young Lions Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He followed up with The Colossus of New York, an essay collection about his home city. The New York Times named his most recent novel, Apex Hides the Hurt, a 2006 Notable Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Granta, Harper's, and Salon. He has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Whiting Award. He lives in Brooklyn.

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