FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Catherynne M. Valente, author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She is a finalist for the Hugo Award this year. Over the next year she has three novels and a short story collection …

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Jack Ketchum, the author of four story collections (one with Edward Lee), many novellas and thirteen novels, four of which have been filmed to date — The Lost, Red, The Girl Next Door and Offspring. He is the four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award for his fiction and Stephen King has called him “the scariest guy in America.” His latest mass-market release is the novel Joyride, backed with the novella Weed Species. & Scott Edelman, whose …

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Terence Taylor, an award-winning children’s television writer whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney. After a career of comforting kids, he’s now equally devoted to scaring their parents. His short horror stories have been published in all three “Dark Dreams” horror/suspense anthologies. Bite Marks was his first novel and Blood Pressure, just out from St. Martin’s, is the second in the opening trilogy of the Vampire Testaments. & Leanna Renee Hieber is a actress and playwright who …

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year. Two of his story collections are The Empire of Ice Cream and The Drowned Life. He has stories out now or forthcoming in 2010 in the anthologies: The Beastly Bride, Steampunk Reloaded, The Book of Dreams, Stories, and The Secret History of Fantasy. & Richard Bowes lives and writes in Manhattan. He has written five novels and two short story collections …

Tonight at KGB, Michael Shea and my friend and fellow Altered Fluid member N.K. Jemisin… FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Michael Shea is the multi-award-winning author of such books as A Quest For Simbilis, Nifft The Lean, and Polyphemus. His most recent publications are The Extra from Tor, Copping Squid from Perilous Press, and The Autopsy And Other Tales from Centipede Press. & N. K. Jemisin, whose first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms — first of the Inheritance Trilogy — is out now …