Volume Reading and Music Series. Volume is hosted by Hallie Goodman and Dani Grammerstorf. About our writers: Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Glamour, Post Road, Salon, New York Times, Dissent, Bitch Magazine, and elsewhere. Her essays have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, Story Quarterly, and The Center for Women Writers, and she is the recipient of fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The MacDowell Colony. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), and serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. More about Melissa: www.melissafebos.com Mark Allen has contributed to The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, Huffington Post, The Awl, Four Two Nine and Vice, hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU, and performed storytelling and stand-up at Upright Citizen’s Brigade NYC, Cutting Room, Axis Theater and 92Y Tribeca. As a journalist, he has lived for a week with a Japanese home-robot, gone bull riding, and been “cured” by an ex-gay church in front of a live audience. He used to dance in his underwear for a living, and once helped wrap a giant condom over Jesse Helms’ house. Mark’s first film Sock Job is currently in production. More about Mark: www.markallencam.com Christopher Funkhouser, Professor in Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology, is a multimedia artist, musician, and writer. He is author of the books Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archeology of Forms and New Directions in Digital Poetry, the chapbooks Electro Þerdix, LambdaMOO_Sessions, and e-books Subsoil Lutes and Selections 2.0, published by Multimedia University (Malaysia), where he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in 2006. Funkhouser, a Contributing Editor at PennSound, was Digital Poet in Residence at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC and consults with many national advisory boards. Major projects include a commission of digital poetry for Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, and Funk’s SoundBox 2012, which united more than 400 recordings, and was featured in the exhibition Chercher le Texte at Bibliothèque Nationale de France. More about Christopher: web.njit.edu/~funkhous With music by DJ Andy French About the Spotty Dog Books & Ale: Oh it's only the best independent book store ever, with a fantastically cool selection of books, and a beautiful antique bar selling wine and hand-crafted ales. Not enough? The whole shebang is housed in an historic firehouse, right in the center of Hudson. More about Spotty: www.thespottydog.com