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Mischief and Mayhem is a publishing collective, not a publishing company. Our goals are to nurture and promote distinctive authorial voices, especially those that fall outside of commercially acceptable notions of literature, and to do everything we can to bring those writers to the largest possible audience.

Kaylie Jones is the author of five novels, including A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, which was made into a Merchant – Ivory film in 1998. The novel Celeste Ascending was published by Harper Collins in 2001, and the memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, was published to critical acclaim in 2009. She has been teaching creative writing for almost 25 years; first at The Writers Voice, then at the SUNY Stony Brook – Southampton MFA Program, and the Wilkes University low-residency MFA Program. Kaylie is Chairman of the annual $10,000 James Jones First Novel Fellowship. In November 2011, she received an award from the National Coalition Against Censorship for her work on returning her father’s first novel, From Here to Eternity, to its original, uncensored form.

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Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the novels Haywire, Tetched andRoughhouse. Haywire reached No. 1 on Small Press Distribution's fiction best-seller list. Both Tetched andRoughhouse were finalists for a Members' Choice Asian American Literary Award. He teaches literature as an adjunct at City University and fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA. He has been the fiction editor of the literary journal Many Mountains Moving since 2007. His web site is www.thaddeusrutkowski.com.

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Raised on the mean streets of New York City's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Katie graduated from The Dalton School (where she teaches history) and Wesleyan University (where she learned that labels are for jars.) Katie is a national director of Living Liberally and a founder of and comedian in Laughing Liberally, a political comedy collective. She has performed comedy at venues including The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Nation Magazine Cruise, Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project in New York, the D.C. Comedy Festival, and at every Netroots Nation. Katie has performed with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Hightower. Her political satire appears regularly on the Huffington Post, Alternet, Daily Kos, Open Left, Raw Story. Katie has been interviewed and featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, LA Times, In These Times, Jezebel, Gawker, on MSNBC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Air America, The Sam Seder Show, The Mark Maron Show, Laura Flanders' GritTV, WBAI, Sirius Radio, XM Radio POTUS, and Fox News Channel's The Alan Colmes Show. The National Review (believe it or not) called Katie "cute" and "a little brainy." Katie's award-winning documentary about historical memory in Spain, La memoria es vaga, has been screened throughout Spain and the U.S. Katie was the co-producer of Tim Robbins and DCTV's Embedded Live, Associate Producer of Estela Bravo's Free to Fly: the U.S. Cuba Link, and outreach director of Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's documentary The Take (La toma). Katie is currently editing her next documentary, Another Camp Is Possible, about Camp Kinderland (where Katie went, and her mother and grandmother worked) and their "Peace Olympics," the camp's non-violent and socially conscious alternative to Color Wars. Bookmark/Search this post with: