Friday, November 19th, 2004
at Space 1026

located at 1026 Arch Street, 2nd Floor (between 10th & 11th Streets)

Featuring
JUSTIN AUDIA (poet; Philadelphia)
MASHA GUTKIN (poet, translator & columnist; San Francisco)
CHRISTIAN NAGLER (playwright & prose writer; Providence)

JUSTIN AUDIA is a recent graduate of the MA Program in Poetry at Temple University. His writings have appeared in NAME magazine (Buffalo, NY) and Lost & Found Times (Columbus, OH). His work was recently featured in a collaborative visual/text exhibition titled Still Like Life with Cameron Gainer at the Temple Gallery in Philadelphia.

MASHA GUTKIN is a poet, free-lance writer, food-columnist, translator and editor living in San Francisco. She also works for a social service agency resettling refugees from the former Soviet Union in the Bay Area. She is especially interested in the linguistically prismatic perspective on identity created by her experience as a bilingual (English and Russian) and bicultural writer. Her poetry has appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review and other journals and zines and she has one self-published chapbook - Goodbye, Animal, and is currently working on another.

CHRISTIAN NAGLER was born in New York and grew up in California. His play The Barn was performed in 1999 in Oakland, California. He is currently a second year student in the Creative Writing MFA program at Brown University. He is at work to complete a collection of stories and has selections forthcoming in the literary journal Encyclopedia.