KNIFEFIGHT presents
Noches de los Artistas
an artists talks events series
at Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY
“Numero Dos: la escritura”
Thursday, July 8th
7pm-8:30pm
As an intimate evening with five of Brooklyn’s most accomplished authors presenting and discussing their work.
Featuring:
Melissa Broder
Mike Lala
Drew Heron
Eric Nelson
Andy P. Smith
and Belly Dancing by Mistress Anna Leah
Moderated by:
Andy P. Smith, KnifeFight
http://knifefight.org/
About the Writers:
Melissa Broder is the author of WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (Ampersand Books; 2010). She is the chief editor of La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series at CakeShop. Her poems appear in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Swink, Five Dials and PANK. Find her online at www.melissabroder.com.
Mike Lala owes his heritage to punk rock, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and the American West. He grew up the son of a USAF fighter pilot, born in Lubbock, Texas and moving to Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, Colorado, Japan, Oklahoma, Virginia, Michigan, and New York City. He has been published in Offbeat and The Red Cedar Review, and is assembling a forthcoming first collection of poems.
Drew Heron was born on May 18th, 1987 in Golden, Colorado. Some say it was cloudy that day, others, very humid. He had a Midwestern childhood, a cowboy’s adolescence, and, like you, a pseudo-Sid-Vicious stint as a teenager. He’s lived in Oregon, New Mexico, and Nebraska. He’s found past employment as a lifeguard, a line cook, and a circus freak. He received his BFA from Emerson College in Boston in 2009, when his book of short stories “Ablaze, Ablaze” was published by Wilde Press. He currently resides in Brooklyn, where they have the decency to give you a free pan pizza when you order a drink. Why, yes! There is a novel in him somewhere.
Eric Nelson, is an emerging writer originally from New Jersey, the son of a nurse and machinist. He has written for publications such as “Constellation” and “Zine World” and wrote the zine series “The Silk City Series,” which is now a book of short stories from Knickerbocker Circus Publishing. He is currently curating readings and is at work on his debut novel. He’s a combination of Black Flag and Raymond Carver. He can usually be found laughing loudly at something inappropriate. He lives in Queens and he loves it.
Andy P. Smith has an MS in Publishing (NYU) and a BFA in Creative Writing (Pratt). This summer will mark his tenth year in Brooklyn, excluding a few months on Phish tour and a year’s stint in Italy working at Fabrica, the United Colors of Benetton’s creative facility. In 2005, he published a collection of essays and interviews titled Welcome to the Land of Cannibalistic Horses. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as Editor in Chief of ChiefMag.com and operated the Bushwick venue Bodega. Currently he is the Creative Director of KnifeFight.org. For more information please visit http://www.apsmith.net/
KNIFEFIGHT presents
Noches de los Artistas
an artists talks events series
at Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY
“Numero Dos: la escritura”
Thursday, July 8th
7pm-8:30pm
Read about the previous Noches de los Artistas at NYAB.
