Two With Water Rx Bi-Monthly Reading Series at the Beauty Bar

is the author of The Order of Odd-Fish (Random House Delacorte 2008), a middle grade / YA fantasy that was one of the Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children 2008. Booklist praised ODD-FISH as "hilarious" and Time Out Chicago described it as "a work of mischievous imagination and outrageous invention." He will present material from his next book.  This is his second time at the TWW Reading Series.  The first time he started a riot, all be it a fun one.

Brandon Will

is a former troupe member and puppeteer at Detroit’s PuppetArt theater, and writer, co-producer, director, and editor of a largely unseesn, ridiculously ambitious feature Dadbot: The Movie.  He works at a wonderful little indie bookstore in Chicago, The Book Cellar, and is writing his debut YA novel.

JW Basillo

is a guy who never learned how to shut up. He is also a writer, performer, humorist and musician from Chicago. Basilo is a National and World Poetry Slam finalist, a PushCart Prize Nominee, Artistic Director of Chicago Slam Works, one half of Poetry/Comedy duo Beard Fight (with Dan Sully) and an Artist in Residence at Real Talk Avenue. His work has appeared on NPR, WGN, in the Chicago Tribune, numerous literary journals and in hundreds of theaters, dive bars, prisons, schools and comedy clubs across North America. His one man dramedy, No One Can Fix You, debuted in 2009 to rave reviews in Chicago, Seattle, and New York City. When not on stage or banging his forehead on a keyboard, Basilo teaches writing and performance all over the country.  He failed Creative Writing in high school. He can be found at BustedMouth.com.

Maggie Ritchie

is a grad student at Columbia College Chicago. Her work can be found in Hair Trigger 33, Knee-Jerk Magazine, and Annalemma. She is a co-founder of the Neutron Bomb reading series. She lives with her cat,Tennessee, in a terrible neighborhood.

Mason Johnson

is the host of the P-Fanatics reading series and went to Maine West High School. 

Aubrey Scheffey

was raised by a journalist and a novelist, and naturally rebelled against writing until her mid-twenties. While slaking an indulgence in junk literature she found herself transfixed by the popular cluster(cuss) known as Twilight.  What began as a creative exercise has now become a mission, and she is re-writing all four books in Stephenie Meyer's series. She has written and edited the first two books in the series and is currently working on the third. These novels cannot be legally published.

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