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    Kathleen Alcott
    Kathleen Alcott
    Kathleen Alcott was born in 1988 in Northern California. She is the author of the novels America Was Hard to Find, Infinite Home and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets. Her short fiction, criticism, memoir, and food writing have appeared in outlets including Harper’s, Zoetrope: All Story, The New York...
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    Charlene Allen
    Charlene Allen
    Charlene Allen works with community organizations to heal trauma and fight injustice, especially the beast called mass incarceration. She received her MFA from The New School, her JD from Northeastern University, and her BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in Brooklyn with her fabulous family...
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    Nin Andrews
    Nin Andrews
    Nin Andrews’ poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, and four editions of Best American Poetry. The author of seven full-length poetry collections, she has won two Ohio individual artist grants, the Pearl Chapbook Contest, the Kent State University chapbook contest, the...
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    Asale Angel-Ajani
    Asale Angel-Ajani
    Ansale Angel-Ajani is the author of A Country You Can Leave and Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in The International Drug Trade. She’s held residencies at Djerassi, Millay, Playa, Tin House, and VONA. She is a recipient of grants from the Ford, Mellon, and...
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    Sarah Audsley
    Sarah Audsley
    Sarah Audsley is the author of a poetry collection Landlock X. A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont.  
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    Holly Black
    Holly Black
    Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty fantasy novels for kids and teens. She has been a finalist for an Eisner Award and the Lodestar Award, and the recipient of the Mythopoeic Award, a Nebula, and a Newbery Honor. Her books have been...
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    Patrick Bringley
    Patrick Bringley
    Patrick Bringley worked for a decade as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His new memoir, All the Beauty in the World, has been praised in the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Times of London, and elsewhere, and he has been interviewed by the New...
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    Jill Bialosky
    Jill Bialosky
    Jill Bialosky is the author of six acclaimed collections of poetry, three critically acclaimed novels, and two memoirs, including History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life, a New York Times bestseller. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry; The New Yorker; The Atlantic; Harper’s...
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    Chen Chen
    Chen Chen
    Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency  and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many...
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    Franny Choi
    Franny Choi
    Franny Choi is a queer, Korean American writer who works at the intersections of race, gender, technology, history, and the speculative imagination. They are the author of three books: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Soft Science, and Floating, Brilliant, Gone. Her writing has appeared in...
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    Ewa Chrusciel
    Ewa Chrusciel
    Ewa Chrusciel is a poet, translator, and educator. She has four books of poems in English: Yours, Purple Gallinule, Of Annunciations, Contraband of Hoopoe, and Strata, as well as three books in Polish.  She also translated selected books by Jack London, Joseph Conrad, I.B. Singer as well as the book of selected poems...
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    Charles Coe
    Charles Coe
    Charles Coe is the author of four poetry collections: Picnic on the Moon, All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents, Memento Mori, and his new collection, Purgatory Road . His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous newspapers and literary reviews and magazines, and his poems have been set...
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    Martha Collins
    Martha Collins
    Martha Collins is the co-translator of Dreaming the Mountain and Black Stars. She has also published eleven volumes of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports and Because What Else Could I Do, which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her previous books of poetry include the...
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    Tom Comitta
    Tom Comitta
    Tom Comitta is the author of 〇, Airport Novella, and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014, a print and digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, and poetry collections. His new, critically acclaimed novel is The Nature Book. Comitta’s fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit...
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    Margot Douaihy
    Margot Douaihy
    Margot Douaihy is a Lebanese American originally from Scranton, PA, now living in Northampton, MA. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in the UK. She is the author of the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls...
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    Andre Dubus III
    Andre Dubus III
    Andre Dubus III’s books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His novel, Gone So Long, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection...
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    Denise Duhamel
    Denise Duhamel
    Denise Duhamel is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. She is the author of Second Story and her previous books include Scald, Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Kinky. She...
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    Daisy Alpert Florin
    Daisy Alpert Florin
    Daisy Alpert Florin is the author of the new novel My Last Innocent Year. She attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. A recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College, she was a 2019–20...
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    Jeff Friedman
    Jeff Friedman
    Jeff Friedman’s poems, mini stories and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Poetry International, Hotel Amerika, Cast-Iron Aeroplanes That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction Funny, Flash Nonfiction Funny, Fiction International, The New Republic and numerous other literary magazines and...
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    David Gessner
    David Gessner
    David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains, Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness. His new book is A...
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    Diana Goetsch
    Diana Goetsch
    Diana Goetsch is an American poet and essayist, author of eight poetry collections, the acclaimed memoir This Body I Wore, and dozens of features and columns. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, LitHub, Tricycle, The American Scholar, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune,...
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    Allegra Goodman
    Allegra Goodman
    Allegra Goodman’s novels include Sam (a Read With Jenna Book Club selection), The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She has written...
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    Nikhil Goyal
    Nikhil Goyal
    Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist who has taught at New York University and author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty. He served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,...
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    Henry Hoke
    Henry Hoke
    Henry Hoke is an editor at The Offing and a writer whose work has appeared in No Tokens, Triangle House, Electric Literature, and the flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes. His new book, Open Throat, told from the view of a mountain lion, was just published to rave reviews. He...

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