Amy Rigby has established herself as one of America's enduring underground/cult/indie artists, combining the insight and humor of country and folk songwriting with classic rock craftsmanship and punk DIY spirit. She started bands Last Roundup and the Shams in NYC's East Village before launching a solo career with her 1996 classic album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. Her most recent album Hang In There With Me (Tapete, 2024) was called "an absolute masterpiece, a career best" in Louder Than War. "Singer-songwriter…doesn't fully describe Rigby's immense gifts and her devotion to the kind of pop and rock music that singer-songwriters often neglect," wrote the Nashville Scene. A storyteller both on stage and on the page, Rigby has toured internationally for years and is the author of two memoirs: Girl To City (2019) and her latest Girl To Country (2025).  Long-running Spotty crew member til her move to the UK last year, Amy returns to the Spotty Dog for a reading/performance/book signing Sat. Jan 17th, 7:30 PM. She'll try to refrain from straightening titles on the shelves but may pour a beer or two.

Davey Davis is the author of Casanova 20: Or, Hot World, X, and the earthquake room. They live in Brooklyn.   Lauren Cook is a naturalist and the author of I Love Shopping (Glo Worm Press, 2019; Nightboat Books, 2025) and Sex Goblin (Nightboat Books, 2024). He is from upstate New York.   Miriam Atkin is a Catskills-based poet. She has written three chapbooks, most recently, Inclination Drawing (Beautiful Days Press, 2024). She is cofounder of Pinsapo, an international publishing collective, and Verbatim Text Sound Expo, an annual small press and record label fair in the mountains. Her podcast, Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills, airs quarterly on WGXC 90.7. Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (Fence Books), winner of the Ottoline Prize and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, The Pasolini Book (Golias Books), and Essay (Krupskaya Books, 2025). Starving Is the Energy (Antiphony) and About the House (Rescue Press) are forthcoming in 2026. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Anthrozoology with a focus on farmed animal welfare.