KP Press Writers

KP Press Writers is group of novelists, essayists, and short-story writers who come together every month discuss their work, offer critique, and work toward publication. Members also have the opportunity to write about the creative life on KP Press Writers’ group blog. KP Press Writers is sponsored by KP Press Books, a new literary press based in Washington Heights, New York.

Join us as we help build a vigorous intellectual and artistic community in Washington Heights! If you are interested, please e-mail Renee Kashuba at renee@kppressbooks.com.

Members

Jeanne Dickey’s fiction and poetry have appeared in the journals Passages North, RE:AL, Karamu, Parting Gifts, The Amherst Review, The Good Foot, Poet Lore, and The Newport Review. She was a resident at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in 2007, and has attended numerous writers’ conferences and residences. Her work takes on a highly psychological viewpoint as she explores the relationship women have with violence, whether they are victims of it, or perpetrators. Her short fiction collection, The Woman Who Came Through the Mirror, is near completion, and she has begun a novel about a stalker (female, of course) whose oversized need to be loved leads her into increasingly dangerous situations.

A native New Yorker and a 10+ year resident of Washington Heights, Jeanne works days as an Administrative Assistant at a midtown law firm.

Cynthia Foo is a displaced Canadian living and working in New York City. She teaches art history at the New School and writes short fiction, poetry and music reviews.

Renée Kashuba is a freelance writer and the president and editor of KP Press Books. She lives in Washington Heights, New York City, with her husband and three children.

Lakis Polycarpou is a journalist, essayist and fiction writer whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Believer Magazine, Next American City, Babble.com and Energy Bulletin among other publications. Lakis also writes regularly about the issue of peak oil and its related economic, social and political implications on his blog, City of the Future.