English Kills Review Turns Two

Melissa Adamo
Alex Norcia
Melissa Swantikowski
Dana Jaye Cadman

Mellow Pages Library
Sunday, September 28
7 p.m.
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MELISSA ADAMO
(EKR Contributor)
Melissa Adamo received her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University, and her poems, essays, and book reviews have previously appeared in Per Contra, Mezzo Cammin, and Modern Language Studies, among others. She enjoys short walks in the woods, Sarah Silverman, and burgers and is also an epic steering wheel player/car singer. Teaching at Rutgers University and Ramapo College tutoring at Brookdale Community College, she gets to enjoy the best the NJ parkway has to offer due to her love of language and try-hard students. Follow her word-thoughts on writing, comedy, and feminism on Twitter @adamopoeting. She is also an EKR contributor.

ALEX NORCIA
(EKR Contributor)
Alex Norcia’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared, or are forthcoming, in McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Word Riot, Slant, and Eclectica, among others.

MELISSA SWANTKOWSKI
Melissa Swantkowski is one half of the Disagreement, an edited reading series that looks for the funny in the sad, grotesque and the perverse, and an editor for Bodega Magazine. Her work has appeared online or in print for American Short Fiction, Treehouse, Monkeybicycle, and elsewhere. You can read all this again, and more at melissaswantkowski.com.

DANA JAYE CADMAN
Dana Jaye lives in Greenpoint with two tortoiseshell cats. She received her MFA in Poetry from Rutgers – Newark and is currently the Poetry Editor at Circus Book. In the mornings her voice sounds like hot whiskey. She’s been published in North American Review and other spots. Her friends are great poets. She went to Tin House Writing Conference in summer 2013 and liked it there

Posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2014




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