Jul 6, 2024
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 was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and grew up in Singapore, where his parents moved when he was a baby. Growing up at a crossroads of trade and migration left him with a deep interest in how cultures meet and mix. He currently lives in Hamden, Connecticut with his wife, Ruth Coffey, and their two children. When Sunil is not teaching or writing, his great love is jazz.
https://www.sunilamrithauthor.com
Jul 6, 2024
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 received her MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts; she lives in New York.
Jul 6, 2024
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, Half American, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, NPR, and several academic journals. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Delmont earned his B.A from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University.
Jul 6, 2024
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 a staff pick at The Paris Review. His newest book, The Bathysphere Book was selected as a Science & Literature honoree by the National Book Foundation for 2024. He lives in New York.
Jul 6, 2024
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 Caro Research/Travel Fellowship sponsored by the Biographers International Organization (BIO). Dykstra, emerita professor of English at Hope College in Michigan, lives with her husband in Waltham, MA.
