Giffin, Ives, Martin

Lawrence Giffin, author of Get the Fuck Back into that Burning Plane (2009), Lucy Ives, contributor to 6×6#17 (2008), and Chris Martin read as part of the Space Space Reading Series in Ridgewood, Queens.
Lucy Ives is the author of the book ANAMNESIS (Slope Editions, 2009) and the chapbook My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2009). Her work has appeared in The Colorado Review, FENCE, Ploughshares, Verse, and other journals. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University.

Chris Martin is the author of American Music, the 2006 recipient of the Hayden Carruth Prize, chosen by C. D. Wright and forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. He is also the author of several chapbooks, including The Day Reagan Died (Boku Books 2005) and Vermontana (Angry Dog Midget Editions 2004). He is the cofounder and editor of Puppy Flowers, an online magazine of the arts. After living in Colorado, Minnesota, and California, he now makes residence near the Prospect Park Zoo, teaches kids near Central Park, and is finishing his MA near Washington Square Park.