JENNIFER KABAT is the author of the twinned memoirs The Eighth Moon and Nightshining published by Milkweed Editions. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, Granta, Frieze, 4Columns, New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review, and BOMB. She teaches in the Design Research MA at the School of Visual Arts, lives in rural New York and serves on her volunteer fire department. RIC ROYER is a writer, performer, performer of writings, and writer of performances. His most recent book, Niagara Falls, NY, published by Pig Roast Publishing, spent two months as the best-selling Niagara Falls travel guide after Amazon mistakenly categorized it as a travel guide. You can hear him every second Thursday of the month on Wave Farm radio with his music collaborator G Lucas Crane. Their show, Suddering Words, is an improvised mashup of various radio show formats, noise, and sound poetry, resulting in unlistenable chaos. AATISH TASEER is the author of the memoir Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands and the acclaimed novels The Way Things Were, a finalist for the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize, The Temple-Goers, short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award, and Noon; and the memoir and travelog The Twice-Born. He is also the translator of a volume of Saadat Hasan Manto’s short stories from Urdu, Manto: Selected Stories. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is a Writer at Large for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Born in England and raised in New Delhi, educated in the US and previously a journalist in the UK, he now lives in New York.   __ Books are available for purchase and signing. Created and Hosted by Andrea Kleine. This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.