This fall, in the capable hands of Robyn Schneider and Jessica Liese, Barbès will continue the tradition of presenting excellent writers from a variety of genres.

Jessica Liese www.bittysoda.com Jessica Liese is many things to many people. Reader, writer, blogger, Brooklynite, pioneer of the nicemodernist movement, white-collar punk-rocker, reluctant superhero...the list goes on. Suffice it to say she's trying to bring Renaissance women back into vogue, and maybe even into Vogue. Jess (you can call her Jess, most people do) currently writes a dating column for FabYOUlous.net, and is hard at work on her first novel. Her writing has also appeared in the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass.; Black Table, Digital Brooklyn, and the sadly now-defunct Winter Mittens webzine. When she is padding her CV, she also overinflates the importance of angry letters that have been printed in the Boston Globe and the New York Press. She is currently co-managing the Barbes Reading Series in Park Slope, participating in readings throughout New York City and regularly updating a blog with a devoted cult following.

Robyn Schneider www.robynschneider.com Robyn Schneider is a reluctantly stereotyped young adult chick lit writer living on the Upper West Side.  If she's feeling argumentative, she may claim that her writing is "chick literary," whatever that means.  She is a Barnard College student who spends her summers slumming in California, where she has taught at Etum Academy and Dr. Choi's Academy.  Not having a degree hasn't stopped her yet!   Robyn runs the scandalous online query letter database Correspondences with YA Fiction Agents, is a submissions reader at a New York literary agency, and keeps a popular blog that's supposed to be about publishing and fashion but really isn't anything at all except quirky.  Her writing has appeared in the Irvine World News, a bunch of online and print lit mags you probably haven't heard of, and is forthcoming in the Princeton Review's COLLEGE ESSAYS THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE. the next Better Non Sequitur anthology.  Look for her young adult novel BETTER THAN YESTERDAY (Random House) in the near future.