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    Aria Aber
    Aria Aber
    Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the United States. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award. H er writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Raised speaking Farsi and German, she writes in her third language, English. She...
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    Albert Abonado
    Albert Abonado
    Albert Abonado is the author of the poetry collection JAW and the Field Guide for Accidents selected by Mahogany Browne for the National Poetry Series. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in...
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    Henry Alford
    Henry Alford
    Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who has written for The New Yorker for more than two decades. A former columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is the author of seven books, including his new book,  I Dream of Joni:...
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    Jessica Anthony
    Jessica Anthony
    Jessica Anthony is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel The Most, longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction, and a finalist for the Prix Fitzgerald. Her novel Enter the Aardvark was a finalist for the New England Book Award in Fiction. Anthony won...
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    Harry Bliss
    Harry Bliss
    Harry Bliss is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker magazine. His self titled Cartoon 'Bliss' appears in newspapers throughout the United States, Japan and Canada. He is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker magazine and his self titled...
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    William Boyle
    William Boyle
    William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street, available now from Soho Crime. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the...
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    Ada Calhoun
    Ada Calhoun
    Ada Calhoun is the author of a new novel, Crush and a memoir, Also a Poet, named one of the best books of 2022 by The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and featured on the Today...
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    Colin Channer
    Colin Channer
    Colin Channer was born in Jamaica and educated there, and in New York. His most recent collection is Console, published in 2023 by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Console was listed for the for the PEN/Voelcker Award and named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. A recipient of a Barnes &...
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    Heather Clark
    Heather Clark
    Heather Clark is a biographer, literary critic, and novelist. She is the author of a new novel, The Scrapbook, a biography Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972, and...
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    Tiana Clark
    Tiana Clark
    Tiana Clark is the author of two poetry collections, her new book Scorched Earth and I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, which won the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize; and Equilibrium, which won the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark’s other honors include a Pushcart...
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    David S. Cohen
    David S. Cohen
    David S. Cohen is a professor of law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. Professor Cohen is the co-author of Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America, and a new book After Dobbs:...
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    Timothy Crellin
    Timothy Crellin
    Timothy Crellin is an Episcopal priest, ordained in 1996 after graduating from Brown University and Harvard Divinity School. He is rector of a church in central Massachusetts and serves as a hospice chaplain. His mother’s family came to the United States from Sicily in the early part of the...
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    Chard deNiord
    Chard deNiord
    Chard deNiord is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Westminster West, In My Unknowing and Interstate,. He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets He co-founded the New England College MFA program in 2001 and the Ruth Stone Foundation in 2011....
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    Marcy Dermansky
    Marcy Dermansky
    Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hot Air, Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie and Twins. Marcy's short fiction has been widely published and anthologized, appearing in McSweeney's, Guernica, and elsewhere. Her essay "Maybe I Loved You" appeared in the best-selling anthology...
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    Alison Espach
    Alison Espach
    Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Wedding People, a New York Times bestseller and a Today Show #ReadWithJenna Bookclub pick, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, an Indie Next Pick and Amazon Editors’ Pick for 2022, and The Adults, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Barnes...
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    Marti­n Espada
    Marti­n Espada
    Martin Espada, known for his powerful and socially conscious writing, has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator . His new collection of poetry is Jailbreak of Sparrows; his previous book, Floaters, won the National Book Award for Poetry and a Massachusetts Book Award....
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    Rob Franklin
    Rob Franklin
    Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award, he has published work in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus...
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    Makenna Goodman
    Makenna Goodman
    Makenna Goodman is the author the forthcoming novel Helen of Nowhere and The Shame, which was named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, a   Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and more....
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    Stephanie Gorton
    Stephanie Gorton
    Stephanie Gorton wrote The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America, a finalist for the Plutarch Award for the best biography of the year, and Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America,...
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    Adam Haslett
    Adam Haslett
    Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Union Atlantic, Imagine Me Gone and a new novel, Mothers and Sons. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a finalist for the National Book Award and the...
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    Adam Higginbotham
    Adam Higginbotham
    Adam Higginbotham is a British-American writer born in England in 1968. His first book, Midnight in Chernobyl, was published in 2019. The winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Colby Award for Military and Intelligence History, Midnight in Chernobyl was named one of...
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    Carol Joffee
    Carol Joffee
    Carol Joffee is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a professor emerita of sociology at the U. of California, Davis. She is the author of After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion and the coauthor...
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    Jonas Hassen Khemiri
    Jonas Hassen Khemiri
    Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 35 languages. The Family Clause was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and received the Prix Médicis Étranger...
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    Carlene Kucharczyk
    Carlene Kucharczyk
    Carlene Kucharczyk’s debut collection Strange Hymn, published this spring by the University of Massachusetts Press, is the winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and holds an MFA from North Carolina State University. Her work has...

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