Colin Channer reads at KGB Bar

Friday | May 11, 2007
@ KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, NYC 10003

Colin Channer's major works of fiction include the best-selling novel Waiting in Vain --a Washington Post Critic's Choice--and a brand new novella, "The Girl with the Golden Shoes"; and he edited the groundbreaking anthology, Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writers Workshop.

A naturalized American of Jamaican origin, he is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the B.A. creative writing program at Medgar Evers College, in Brooklyn. He's also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, which the Associated Press describes as "one of the most vibrant literary festivals to come along in a long time." He lives in Brooklyn, New York.