Cafe Rats is a New York City-based writers group. We meet every Thursday at Caffe Reggio.
We aim to support each other's creative passions, encourage confidence in our writing, and foster lasting friendships.
Molly Riggs is a literary fiction author and poet living in Harlem Shortly after graduating w th her degree in English from the Univers ty of Northern Colorado and mov ng to New York City, she published her debut novel, Blue Ink, through New Degree Press She has also published works of poetry in literary magazines like The Crucible, Dear Reader, and Rainy Day
Kayla Egan grew up with her head n a book and a passion for storytelling. This led her to attend Columbia College of Ch cago where she studied audio for film When she's not busy recording the stories that others have written at her day job as an audio eng neer, she is working on her own in any one of the coffee shops scattered around New York City
Originally from Staten Island, Maria Conte now lives in Brooklyn A master at capturing little oddit es in the most unexpected way with her writing, you can also find the margins of her notebook pages f lled w th doodles of animals doing people things
Marie Cantor, an aspiring playwright and poet from Metro Detroit now lives n M dtown Her dream is to say disco more often and join a c rcus
Chos writing is always thoughtful and empathetic She draws from her experiences helping the people of New York, and her work will fill your heart
Iris Yu is a self-prescr bed romantic who is always wr ting about " go ng through her heartbreak bullshit When shes not picking up men w th haikus on napkins or listening to jazz, she is crunching numbers and code during her day job at a bank
Iris Yu
Marie Cantor
The group got crafty creating one page zines which featured our poetry.
After workshopping together, members of our group took the stage at the KGB Bar Red Room to read their poems.
For the holidays, we all brought a book and participated in a classic White Elephant exchange.
The group traveled upstate and stayed in a cabin at Mills Norrie Campground.
Cafe Rats is a New York City-based writers group. We meet every Thursday at Caffe Reggio.
We aim to support each other's creative passions, encourage confidence in our writing, and foster lasting friendships.
