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Writers Read presents 6 readings a year featuring current work by novelists, short story magicians, thoughtful essayists, passionate poets and playful playwrights.

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Lesley Dormen is the author of The Best Place to Be: A novel in stories. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Five Points, Open City, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. Her nonfiction has appeared in Elle, Glamour, O, the Oprah Magazine and many other magazines and anthologies. She is a MacDowell and Yaddo fellow and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Lesley teaches at the Writers Studio in Greenwich Village, where she is Associate Director.

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Mary Lyon is a New York City poet and performer. Her work has appeared in RealPoetik.comM and Anderbo.com.

Her work will be included in the anthology, "The Cento, A Collection of Collage Poems," edited by Theresa Malphrus Welford (Red Hen Press, 2011. She was a finalist in the 2007 Center For Book Arts Chapbook Competition. She is a featured artist on the CD "Little Noises" available on CDBaby.com and Amazon.com. Her chapbook, "My Flurry Is On," will be published in November 2011.

Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her scientific research concerns the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes. Her second book – a novel, “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines” (Knopf, 2006) – won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers that "honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work...represents distinguished literary achievement..." It was also a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award for "a distinguished book of first fiction". She is the author of the popular science book, “How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space”.

She holds a BA in Physics and Astronomy from Barnard College with a concentration in Philosophy, and a PhD from MIT in Physics. She has worked at the Center for Particle Astrophysics (CfPA) at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the UK where she worked at Cambridge University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). Just before returning to New York, she was the first scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford with an award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and Arts (NESTA). She has written for many artists and appeared on several radio and television programs.

Joel Hinman was a film producer for over 20 years. He currently teaches fiction and poetry at New York's The Writers Studio. His fiction has appeared in Fiction Now and Epiphany Magazine where he recently became a contributing editor. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

Isabelle Deconinck's work has been published in Epiphany Magazine, KGB Bar Lit, World Literature Today, The Villager and Ear magazine. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008 and is the recipient of a 2004 and 2006 Helen Wurlitzer Residency Grant in Fiction. Although French is undeniably part of her biological make up, she is thankful to English for letting her say things she might never say in French. Isabelle lives in New York where she makes a living working as a press agent for performing artists.