LAWRENCE BLOCK has been writing crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century. He has published in excess of one hundred books and no end of short stories. Block is best known for his series characters, including cop-turned-private investigator Matthew Scudder, gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, globe-trotting insomniac Evan Tanner, and introspective assassin Keller. Several of Block’s books have been filmed. The latest, A Walk Among the Tombstones, stars Liam Neeson as Matthew Scudder and was released in September, 2014. Block is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America, and a past president of MWA and the Private Eye Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times each, and the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe and Philip Marlowe awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and the Diamond Dagger for Life Achievement from the Crime Writers Association (UK). He’s also been honored with the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award from Mystery Ink magazine and the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement in the short story. He is the editor of DARK CITY LIGHTS: NEW YORK STORIES (May 2015, Three Rooms Press).

ISRAEL HOROVITZ has written over 70 plays, several of which have been translated into as many as 30 languages and performed worldwide. His play Line is now in it’s 39th year of continuous performance off-Broadway. He is Founding Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage Company, and of the New York Playwrights Lab. Horovitz teaches a bilingual screenwriting workshop with writers from la Fémis, France’s national film school, and Columbia University’s graduate film program. He is married to Gillian Adams-Horovitz, former British National Marathon Champion and Record holder, and former USA Track & Field (Masters) Marathon Champion. The Horovitz family divides its time among homes in Gloucester, Massachusettes, NYC’s Greenwich Village, and London’s Dulwich Village. Mr. Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history. His most recent book is his first poetry collection HEAVEN AND OTHER POEMS (October 2014, Three Rooms Press).

MEAGAN BROTHERS is the author of two previous novels for young adults, Debbie Harry Sings in French and Supergirl Mixtapes. Ms. Brothers has also been, variously, a musician, a performing poet, a record store clerk, and an adjunct professor of creative writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. A native Carolinian, she currently lives and works in New York City. She is also the author of the forthcoming extraordinary YA novel WEIRD GIRL AND WHAT’S HIS NAME (October 2015, Three Rooms Press).

RICHARD VETERE is a playwright, novelist, poet, screenwriter, TV writer, and actor. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and teaches a master screenwriting class at NYU and Queens College. His novel, The Third Miracle was made into a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche. He is a long time member of the New York Playwrights Lab founded by Israel Horovitz, and a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America East. He lives in New York City. He is the author of THE WRITERS AFTERLIFE (March 2014, Three Rooms Press) and the forthcoming CHAMPAGNE AND COCAINE (March 2016, Three Rooms Press).

JANE LECROY is a New York based poet, singer and performance artist, home-birthing mother of three, teacher, atheist, vegetarian, televisionless, hedonist who has collaborated, performed and toured with: the SF-based all-women poetry troupe, Sister Spit; the 1990’s emo-core band, Vitapup; the electronica project, Somnaut; the a capella hip-hop beatboxing orchestra, Nu Voices; and Brant Lyon’s, Hydrogen Jukebox. She fronts the avant-pop band Transmitting, featuring multi-instrumentalists Tom Abbs and David Rogers-Berry. Jane teaches and publishes student work through the artist-in-the-schools organizations Teachers and Writers Collaborative and Dreamyard. Jane’s previous book of poetry, Names, was published by Booklyn as part of the award winning ABC chapbook series, the latest Transmitting record is Dark and Full of Life on the European label, Delphy Entertainment Rekords. She is the author of the multimedia performance poetry book, SIGNATURE PLAY (April 2013, Three Rooms Press).

Geoffrey Paul Gordon is an NYC Playwright & Performer and the son of Beate Sirota Gordon –The subject of the Three Rooms Press biography
LAST BOAT TO YOKOHAMA: The Life and Legacy of Betae Sirota Gordon. Geoffrey will speaking about his mother’s place in history and his involvement with the book.