David Pratt reads from his sexy comic novel Looking After Joey. Rafe Haze reads from his hot (in more ways than one) new mystery, The Next.

David Pratt is the author of two novels, Looking After Joey (Wilde City) and Lambda Literary Award-winner Bob the Book (Chelsea Station) and a short story collection, My Movie, (Chelsea Station) He has directed and performed his work for the theater in New York City at the Cornelia Street Cafe, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, the Flea and the NY International Fringe Festival. David was the first American director of work by Canadian playwright John Mighton. He is currently working on two more novels and a novella for young people.

Rafe Haze was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives on the west side of New York City. Having worked for the legal compliance industry, fashion industry, music industry, art industry, and flesh industry (the most interesting people on earth have), his most life-changing employment was teaching Meisner Technique of Acting. He wrote himself out of one whopping funk with his debut novel The Next, and is ecstatically thankful for the entire, messy, beautiful cadence.

Rafe refuses to be handcuffed to one discipline only: he writes classical music for orchestra and small ensemble, country music songs, musical theater, plays, screenplays, and digs two-stepping, line dancing, and West Coast Swinging. Be it words, notes, or movement, the emotional origin, schlep, and endpoints are equally compelling and satisfying.

Rafe is grafeful to his twin brother (the straight one) who continues to make the slicing through this rambling, thorny life worthwhile.