Ellis Avery

January 7, 2008

Named by New York Press as The Best Writer You’ve Never Heard of But Should Go Read Right Now, Ellis Avery is a Sunday Salon veteran and the author of a first novel called The Teahouse Fire. Recently out in paperback from Riverhead Books, The Teahouse Fire won two awards last year and is being translated into six languages. Ellis lives in Manhattan and teaches creative writing at Columbia.

Gary Percesepe

Gary Percesepe is the author of eleven books, including Moratorium: Collected Stories, named by Kirkus Review one of the top 100 Indie books of 2022. He is Associate

Ruth Danon

Ruth Danon is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Turn Up the Heat, from Nirala Series. Other titles are Triangulation from A

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