new fiction series in Baltimore

i know this is a poetry site, but we all get our inspiration from a wide range of sources. this should be great:

Michael Kimball, Jessica Anya Blau & Merrill Feitell

When: Saturday, October 20; 5:00 pm; free admission.
Where: MinÃ¡s Gallery?, 815 W. 36th Street?, Baltimore, 410-732-4258.

Michael Kimball has published two novels, The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and How Much of Us There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated into) many languages. His third novel, Dear Everybody, will be published in the spring of 2008. He has won a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Boswell and Johnson Award, and the Lidano Fiction Prize. He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including Open City, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, New York Tyrant, and JMWW.

Jessica Anya Blau has published her short fiction in over twenty literary magazines in the U.S. and Canada. Her novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (Harper Collins) will be released in June 2008. Her screenplay, Franny, is in preproduction in Los Angeles. She is currently lecturing at Johns Hopkins.

Merrill Feitell's first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the 2004 Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in many publications, including the Best New American Voices series, and have been short-listed in both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is currently at work on a novel and new stories, and she teaches in the creative writing program at University of Maryland in College Park.