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Catherine Texier is the author of six novels and the internationally best-selling memoir BREAKUP. Her latest novel, RUSSIAN LESSONS explores the tumultuous and obsessive affair between a recently divorced mother and a Russian immigrant who both compels and repels her.
Jen Lambert's work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies including most recently Pank, The Los Angeles Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, and Raleigh Review. A fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, her current project follows a singular brothel worker as she resists the demanding, defining voices of her family and the men who visit her.
Liz Kay's poetry revisits the story of Hansel & Gretel from the perspective of the witch in an examination of violence, marginalization, and the pursuit of power. Liz is also the author of the forthcoming MONSTERS: A LOVE STORY, about a widowed feminist poet and a toxic affair with the A-list actor who options her novel-in-verse.