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    Sunil Amrith
    Sunil Amrith
    Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University and professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He is the author of four books, including his most recent, Burning Earth and is the recipient of multiple awards, including a MacArthur “genius” fellowship. Amrith...
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    M.T. Anderson
    M.T. Anderson
    M. T. Anderson is the author of a number of celebrated books including the Thrilling Tales series, as well as The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1, The Pox Party, which won the National Book Award and a Printz Honor, and The Astonishing Life...
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    Marie-Helene Bertino
    Marie-Helene Bertino
    Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Beautyland, Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award,...
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    Amy Jo Burns
    Amy Jo Burns
    Amy Jo Burns is the author of the memoir Cinderland and the novel Shiner, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, NPR Best Book of the year, and “told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal,” according to The New York Times. Her latest novel, Mercury, is a Barnes & Noble Book Club...
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    Mark Cecil
    Mark Cecil
    Mark Cecil is an author, journalist and host of The Thoughtful Bro show, for which he conducts author interviews with an eclectic roster of award winning and bestselling writers. He has written for LitHub, Writer’s Digest, Cognoscenti, The Millions, Reuters and Embark Literary Journal, among other publications. He is...
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    Matthew Delmont
    Matthew Delmont
    Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of five books: Black Quotidian, Why Busing Failed, Making Roots, The Nicest Kids in Town and his most recent book,...
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    Emmeline Clein
    Emmeline Clein
    Emmeline Clein is the author of the new acclaimed memoir Dead Weight. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, The Nation, Smithsonian, Berlin Quarterly, VICE, BuzzFeed, Catapult and Antigravity, among other publications. Her chapbook Toxic was published by Choo Choo Press in 2022. She...
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    Sharon Dolin
    Sharon Dolin
    Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present, Manual for Living, Whirlwind, and Burn and Dodge, which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.  She is also the author of two poetry books in translation from Catalan, Gemma Gorga’s Late to the...
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    Natalie Dykstra
    Natalie Dykstra
    Natalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life and a new book Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Her work on Isabella Stewart Gardner has won a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an inaugural Robert and Ina...
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    Jessica Fisher
    Jessica Fisher
    Jessica Fisher earned a BA from Swarthmore College, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Fisher is the author of Daywork (Milkweed Editions, 2024); Inmost (Nightboat Books, 2012); and Frail-Craft (Yale University Press, 2007). She is an associate professor of English at Williams College and lives in western...
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    Brad Fox
    Brad Fox
    Brad Fox is a writer, journalist, translator, and former relief contractor living in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, and other literary publications. His novel To Remain Nameless was a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Fiction and...
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    Kevin Goodan
    Kevin Goodan
    Kevin Goodan was born in Montana and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation where his stepfather and brothers are tribal members. Goodan earned his BA from the University of Montana and worked as a firefighter for ten years with the U.S. Forest Service before receiving his MFA from University of...
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    Juliet Grames
    Juliet Grames
    Juliet Grames is the best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and a new book, The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Real Simple, Parade, and The Boston Globe, and she is the recipient of an Ellery Queen...
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    Gary Gulman
    Gary Gulman
    Gary Gulman is one of the most popular touring comics, selling out theaters nationwide including Carnegie Hall. He has been a guest on every major late-night comedy program. Gulman’s four comedy specials include HBO's The Great Depresh, a highly acclaimed look at mental illness. In 2019 he appeared in...
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    Harold Holzer
    Harold Holzer
    Harold Holzer, one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, serves as chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. He has authored, coauthored, and edited forty-two books, including Emancipating Lincoln, Lincoln at Cooper Union, and three award-winning books for young...
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    Didi Jackson
    Didi Jackson
    Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar and a new collection, My Infinity. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Oxford American, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith, and Together...
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    Major Jackson
    Major Jackson
    Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023), The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited...
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    Tania James
    Tania James
    Tania James is the author of four works of fiction, most recently the novel Loot, long listed for the National Book Award and named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. Other books include The Tusk That Did the...
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    Zain Khalid
    Zain Khalid
    Zain Khalid was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2024. He is the author of the debut novel, Brother Alive.  Brother Alive won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, was a finalist for...
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    Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
    Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
    Samuel Kọ́láwọlé was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of a new, critically acclaimed novel, The Road to the Salt Sea. His work has appeared in AGNI, Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, Gulf Coast, Washington Square Review, Harvard Review, Image Journal, and other literary publications....
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    Amitava Kumar
    Amitava Kumar
    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....
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    Edgar Kunz
    Edgar Kunz
    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...
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    James Marcus
    James Marcus
    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...
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    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    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...

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