Jennifer Belle, bestselling author of Going Down, High Maintenance, Little Stalker, and The Seven Year Bitch.
Marcy Dermansky is the author of Bad Marie and Twins. Bad Marie has
been selected as a Barnes and Noble 2010 Discover Great New Writers
pick. Her short stories have been published in numerous literary
journals, including McSweeneys, The Alaska Quarterly Review, FiveChapters.com and The Indiana Review.
A film critic for About.com and a MacDowell fellow, she lives in
Astoria, New York, with her husband, writer Jürgen Fauth, and their
daughter, Nina.
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang is a Chinese-American memoirist and essayist who writes about identity,
relationships, and the intersection of cultures, generations and the
sexes. Pang-Mei wrote about China’s first modern divorcée, her
great-aunt, in Bound Feet & Western Dress (Doubleday/Anchor) (www.pmchang.com).
Her writings have been included in the New York Times Magazine, New
Haven Review, and Saveur. She's on the board of the literary magazine,
the New Haven Review, and has taught writing at Yale and Bard colleges.
She lives on the Upper West Side with her two daughters.
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