Urban Desires

Issue 1.1 Contributors

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Peter Cassell and Sarah Bragaw are newly married. Between them they have nearly 30 years of working restaurant experience. Additionally, they have been eating food for their entire lives and started drinking wine at least three years before they were legally allowed to do so.

Sarah has spent the past ten years working in two-star and three-star restaurants in New York City and has had the opportunity to work with some of the best of the new breed of "superstar" chefs that is happening in the city. She's worked in elegant Upper East Side restaurants and managed a restaurant in SOHO that became one of NY's "restaurant of the moment". She is currently managing a very highly rated upscale Italian restaurant in New York City.

Peter has been working in restaurants for 19 years. He built and owned a very well regarded restaurant in Greenwich Village for three years, has managed trendy hot spots in the Hamptons, an extravagant and wonderfiil restaurant near Lincoln Center, and an old-time, classic, historical Wall Street restaurant. He has spent years working in restaurant kitchens, more years waiting table, and even more working behind the bar and managing them. He is currently looking for a space where he can begin a new venture. In the meantime he is entertaining offers for employment.

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Brian Dyktra has lived in L.A., N.Y., Boston, Cincinnati, Sarasota, Indianapolis, Long Beach, and points in between. He is married and, to be sure, is living somewhere. He has written X number of pieces for Y number of publications, in Z number of places. His favorite hobby is writing about himself in the third person.

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Richard P. Greenfield has written on VR/simulations and special effects for magazines in the US, Europe and Asia. He is a consultant for VR/simulation projects and a game designer.

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Ms. Licitra splits her brain into many parts: playwright, TV producer, journalist, and bird watcher. Consequently she has had the pleasure of encountering the Theatre at St. Peters, the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, the New Voice Theatre Co. in N.Y.C. and Warren, VT., the Renegade Theatre in N.J., Children's Television Workshop, Nickelodeon, the GALAXY classroom, Scholastic, the Bird Watcher's Digest, the long-tailed manakin, the toucan, the bell bird, the sulphur-bellied flycatcher, and the sparrow--to name a few.

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Kyle,

For my bio, just make up some outrageous lie, like I'm some deaf, blind quadraplegic that likes scuba diving.

Your Pal, Dana

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Cleo Odzer lives in New York City, where she grew up. She earned her doctorate in anthropology from the New School of Social Research, writing a dissertation that became the basis for Patpong Sisters. Odzer works at DAYTOP, an organization that helps to rehabilitate drug addicts. In this capacity she often revisits Thailand, at the same time taking the opportunity to see her Patpong "sisters," many of whom still work in the same bars. She is currently working on a new book of nonfiction.

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Though he's written three novels and several travel books (Leaving Oja), most of Peter Selgin's success has been as a playwright. His plays have been produced in New York City and have won, among other awards, the Eugene O'Neill National Playwright's Conference Award, the Mill Mountain Theatre New Plays Competition, and the Charlotte New Plays Festival Award. He has just completed a short story collection, The Bones of Love, and the illustrated book, 27 Ways of Looking at a Toucan. Mr. Selgin is also an accomplished charicature (195k jpg) artist.

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While resisting the term Renaissance Man, it's one that keeps cropping up. Having receieved his BFA in Acting from Penn State University, Kyle has acted in numerous plays, film and television in New York and beyond, written seven feature-length screenplays, written and performed his one-man show Naked in the Cockpit, mastered the intricasies of the Macintosh and the joys of Photoshop, designed software that allows you to speed-read text files (wanna buy it?) and now designs, edits and publishes Urban Desires. Oh, yeah and he loves to fish, but he lives in New York and doesn't get to do very much of that any more.

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