Storytellers for How to Build a Fire: There Was Then…

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STORYTELLERS:

MATT BARBEHENN:
Matt Barbehenn is a writer and teacher, whose work has been published in several magazines, including The Puritan and Ronin Press, both of which went under almost immediately after publishing his work. He is currently finalizing a manuscript of short fiction and working on a series of nonfiction essays, half of which are also fiction. He lives in Brooklyn.

KATE HILL CANTRILL:
Kate Hill Cantrill is the author of the short story collection, Walk Back from Monkey School. A three time Pushcart Prize nominee, Kate has been awarded fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Jentel Artists Residency, and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in over thirty publications, including StoryQuarterly, The Believer, QuickFiction, Blackbird and others. In the past she has run the Utter Reading Series in Austin, Texas, The Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series in DUMBO, and presently she is co-hosting the storytelling series, How to Build a Fire with Dennis Norris.

TERENCE DEGNAN:
Terence Degnan is a poet in Brooklyn. His first book of poems entitled, “The Small Plot Beside the Ventriloquist’s Grave” was published by Sock Monkey Press in 2012. A second book of poems by Terence, entitled “Still Something Rattles,” is slotted to be published soon. He currently produces a storytelling series in South Slope called “How to Build a Fire” at Open Source Gallery on the last Thursday of every month. His poems have been published in Press 53 magazine, The Broadkill Review, The Other Herald, The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology, pif Magazine, The Front Weekly, and the Birmingham Arts Journal. He lives in Park Slope with his wife and daughter.

DENNIS NORRIS:
Dennis is a graduate of Haverford College and holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Sarah Lawrence College. A former competitive figure skater, he works for Figure Skating in Harlem as their Manager of Educational Opportunities. As a writer, Dennis’s short fiction has been published in Bound Off: An Online Literary Audio Magazine and Madcap Review. His work has garnered awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, VONA, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others, and in 2015 he was named a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. In his free time, he co-curates How To Build A Fire, a Brooklyn-based live storytelling series. He lives in Harlem, and is fervently working on a novel. ‪#‎bacon‬

MONIKA WUHRER:
Monika is the founder and director of Open Source Gallery. She earned her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Monika develops work as a reaction- critical yet playful- to her enviroment. She is interested in making art a hyper-vivid expression of daily life, and challenging art world conventions by playing with its clichés.