Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth Graver’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories; Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Essays. She teaches at Boston College and is at work on a novel inspired by her grandmother, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul. 

https://elizabethgraver.com

The End of the Point (novel) book cover. Published 2013, HarperCollins. New York Times Notable Book, Long-listed for the National Book Award in Fiction

J.C Hallman

J.C. Hallman was born in Detroit, grew up in California, and sort of lives in New York. He is the author of six books, and he has published essays in GQ, Harper's, The Baffler, Tin House, The Believer, and a variety of other journals and publications. In 2009, he received a McKnight Fellowship for his fiction, and 2013, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in the "general nonfiction" category. 

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Cover of November, 2017 issue of Harpers Magazine, featuring Hallman’s essay, “Monumental Error.”

Lyle Kash

Lyle Kash is an American transgender filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2018 he formed T4T Productions, a collection of artists committed to putting trans people in front of and behind the camera lens. Under the auspices of T4T Productions (shorthand for Trans for Trans, an abbreviation which comes from bygone Craigslist personals ads), Kash wrote and directed his debut film, Death and Bowling, with an almost entirely transgender cast. Kash holds a BA from Oberlin College in Comparative American Studies and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Film/Video. 

www.lylekash.com  

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Svetlana Kitto

Svetlana Kitto is a writer and oral historian in NYC. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Longreads, The Cut, Hyperallergic, Interview, CULTURED, Guernica, BOMB, VICE, ART21, and the Journal - Danspace Project, where she was Writer-in-Residence in 2016. As an oral historian, she's contributed oral histories to archives and exhibitions at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Museum of Arts and Design, NYPL for Performing Arts, and Gordon Gallery Robichaux, where she is in-house writer and oral historian. Since 2013, she has co-curated the reading and performance series Adult Contemporary, which has created programming for Hauser & Wirth, Storm King Art Center, and CANADA, among other galleries and institutions. Currently, she’s an MFA candidate in Fiction at the New School, where she is completing an oral-history novel about gay clubs in Eastern Europe.

https://www.svetlanakitto.com

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