#hiplit

A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Elwin Cotman is a performance artist, educator, activist, and the author of two collections of fantasy short stories. He has toured across North America doing readings, and has performed at venues such as Bluestockings, Artomatic, Quimby's, TerPoets, and the Interdisciplinary Writers Workshop. He currently lives in Oakland, CA, and is at work on his first novel.

B.C. Edwards' work has appeared in Mathematics Magazine, Hobart, The New York Times, and others. His debut collection, The Aversive Clause, was a finalist for the 2013 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize and the winner of the 2011 Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. His debut collection of poetry, From The Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes, was released last summer, also from Black Lawrence Press. He is a 2014 Poetry Fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts, attended the graduate writing program at The New School in New York and lives in Brooklyn. Follow him at bc-edwards.

Paul Rome is a writer of fiction and performance literature.  His first novel, We All Sleep in the Same Room, was longlisted for the 2014 PEN/Bingham Prize for debut fiction.  He has also written for The Huffington Post, Bedford + Bowery, PEN America, The Minetta Review and Mercer Street.  Rome lives in Brooklyn where he manages the Wyckoff Starr coffee shop. paulrome

Brian Gresko is the editor of When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood (penguinrandomhouse). His fiction has appeared on Joyland Magazine and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His nonfiction has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Salon, Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, Glimmer Train Stories, and numerous other venues. You can find him at briangresko.com and here on Tumblr at briangresko.

Maxwell Neely-Cohen was born and raised in Washington D.C., where he spent his teenage years skateboarding and DJing. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he lives in New York City. His shorter work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Millions, and The New Inquiry. Echo of the Boom (abarnaclebook, rarebirdlit) is his first novel.

REBECCA DINERSTEIN is the author of Lofoten, a bilingual English-Norwegian collection of poems, and The Sunlit Night (Bloomsbury, June 2015), her debut novel. She received her B.A. from Yale and her M.F.A. in Fiction from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn.

Follow her at erikaswyler! 

That moment when your motorcycle key and a Gears of War COG tag becomes your spaceship key prop. Come see what it's for: http://tiny.cc/hiplitcosmos @hiplitlife #immersive #theater #hiplit #hiplitcosmos