Elna Baker is a writer, comedic storyteller and monologist. Her stories have appeared on This American Life, BBC Radio 4, The Moth, Studio 360, and at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She’s written for Elle, Glamour and Five Dials Literary Journal. As a solo-performer she created the shows If You See Something, Say Something, A Mexican-Mormon, and A Book of Over-Dramatic Confessions. In 2007 and 2008 she was awarded residencies at both the MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies. Her first book, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, will be published on October 15th.
Sarah D. Bunting's work has appeared in New York Magazine, Seventeen and on numerous websites -- including TelevisionWithoutPity.com, which she co-founded. She's the editor and publisher of TomatoNation.com, and lives in Brooklyn.
David Carr is a reporter and columnist for The New York Times. His life is a model of convention, with a nice house in the suburbs, a troubled lawn and a clunker in the driveway, which, as a matter of both sentiment and practicality, he did not turn in for cash. He wrote a book last year, The Night of the Gun, in which he discovered that others knew many things he had forgotten.
Betsy Housten is a writer, drummer and massage therapy student. Her writing has been featured at several readings at Bluestockings Bookstore, as well as the Cup & Pen series at Think Coffee. She is currently at work on the fourth issue of her zine You Know Better. When she's not messing about with words, Betsy can be found playing snare drum with the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.
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