Els Quaegebeur & Kathy Z. Price
Paragraph's monthly series at KGB showcases our members' work. Join us in May for readings by Els Quaegebeur and Kathy Z. Price. Free and open to the public.
Els Quaegebeur is a Dutch journalist and writer. She writes a weekly column about her life in New York City for a national newspaper in the Netherlands. A book based on these stories will be published in August (only in Dutch at first, but who knows where the Frankfurter Buchmesse will take it). Her first novel Mijn Geheim (My Secret), published in 2006, was translated into Italian. That makes sense as the story revolves around adultery, Italy's number one hobby. She is currently working on a screenplay version of My Secret and on her second novel, and loves the idea of readers asking bookstore clerks if they know "My Secret."
Kathy Z. Price is the author of the award-winning picture book, The Bourbon Street Musicians, which received a starred review from American Library Association's Booklist, a Notable Book Award, a New York Times Book Review and inclusion in Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2003 by Bank Street College. She is also a recipient of a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her poetry is included in Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Café. She’s a performance poet who has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, St Marks Poetry Project, The Whitney Museum as well as performances in Central America and Europe. She is the guest editor of A Gathering of the Tribes # 11 noted by Toni Morrison as a "beautiful issue."