Jul 6, 2024
Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of nonfiction and four novels. His new novel is My Beloved Life. Kumar’s novel Immigrant, Montana was on the best of the year lists at The New Yorker, The New York Times, and President Obama’s list of favorite books of 2018. His last novel A Time Outside This Time was described by the New Yorker magazine as “a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.” Kumar’s nonfiction books include The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal; Every Day I Write the Book; A Matter of Rats; Lunch With a Bigot; A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm A Tiny Bomb; and Husband of a Fanatic. Kumar has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Lannan Foundation. He is currently a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and he teaches at Vassar College. More at www.amitavakumar.com
Jul 6, 2024
Edgar Kunz is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer, named a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has also been supported by fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the Newport MFA.
Sep 10, 2024
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is the daughter of a union organizer and a bookkeeper. She is an independent journalist who is best known for her 2003 nonfiction book Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, which chronicles the struggles of two young women as they deal with love, growing families, poverty, and prison time. A contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other publications, she has also been the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe, and several MacDowell Colony residencies. She lives in Manhattan.
Jul 6, 2024
James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut. He edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage and has translated seven books from the Italian, the most recent being Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, VQR, The American Scholar, and many other publications. He is also the former editor of Harper’s Magazine, and currently teaches at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Jul 6, 2024
Pablo Medina was born in Havana, Cuba, and grew up in New York City. He is the author of more than twenty published works, including poetry, fiction, works in translation, and a memoir. Medina is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for his writing and translations, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. He has taught at a number of American colleges and universities, most recently the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. His new poetry collection is Sea of Broken Mirrors. He lives in MA and VT.
