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Ahmed Douma 

Ahmed Douma is an Egyptian poet and revolutionary. A contributing writer at The New Arab and Sotour, he was a ten-year political prisoner in Egypt between 2013 and 2023, and is currently once again incarcerated for his writing. Douma is the author of two poetry collections ...

Tony Hao

Tony Hao is a New Haven, Connecticut-based Chinese-to-English literary translator and writer. His translation of Adrift in the South, a memoir by Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai, was published by Granta Magazine Editions in May 2026. His short-form translations have appeared in ...

Alex Tan

Alex Tan is a writer, editor, and Arabic translator based in New York. Their essays, interviews, and translations from the Arabic have been published or are forthcoming in Literary Hub, Protean, The Baffler, and Cleveland Review of Books, among others. They are editorial ...

Corinne Leong

Corinne Leong is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn.

Daniel Borzutzky

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and Spanish-language translator from Chicago. His most recent books of poetry are The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (2024), and Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (2021). His 2016 collection, The Performance of Becoming Human, received ...

Emily Rose Apter

Emily Rose Apter is a cultural worker and writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Chelsea Kirk

Chelsea Kirk is a writer, researcher, and tenant organizer in Los Angeles.

Brianna Di Monda

Brianna Di Monda is the editor in chief of the Cleveland Review of Books.

Harilaos Stecopoulos

The former editor of The Iowa Review, Harilaos Stecopoulos teaches American literature at the University of Iowa.  He is currently working on his first novel, tentatively titled Myrtle Wilson, Queen of Flushing Creek.

Weldon Ryckman

Weldon Ryckman is a geographer with work appearing in or at Terrain.org, Ghost City Review, Whiskey Island Magazine, and the Colorado Plateau Reader. He holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University. He lives in Santa Rosa, CA.

Philip Gefter

Philip Gefter is the author of Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; two biographies: What Becomes a Legend Most: The Biography of Richard Avedon and Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe; and a collection ...

Diana Kruzman

Diana Kruzman is a New York-based journalist reporting on environmental and human rights issues around the world.