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Martha Bayne

Martha Bayne is the editor of three anthologies of writing about Chicago and the Midwest, a senior editor at the University of Illinois Press, and a contributing editor for Chicago’s South Side Weekly newspaper. Her work has appeared in many local and national outlets, ...

Nikkitha Bakshani

Nikkitha Bakshani is an editor at The Morning News and a freelance writer. Her work has appeared on Departures.com, The Rumpus, The Paris Review Daily, and more. She tweets at @nikkitwitta

Thomas Meaney

Thomas Meaney, a writer and a historian, is working on a book about American thinkers and decolonization.

Jake Lamar

Jake Lamar is the author, most recently, of the play Brothers in Exile. He lives in Paris where his latest novel Postérité was published by Rivages.

Robert Westbrook

Robert Westbrook is a history professor at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth.

James Lawrence Hughes

Yasmin Nair

Yasmin Nair is a writer, activist, and academic working on her first book, Strange Love: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Invention of Social Justice.

Alex Cuadros

Alex Cuadros used to cover the ultra-rich at Bloomberg News. He’s the author of Brazillionaires and lives in Brooklyn.

Bojan Louis

Bojan Louis is a Diné writer living in La Rioja, Spain, with a first collection of poetry forth-coming in 2017.

Jim Krusoe

Jim Krusoe is the author of Erased, Toward You, and other books.

Nyuol Lueth Tong

Nyuol Lueth Tong is a writer, critic, and playwright based in San Francisco. Editor of There Is a Country, the first ever anthology of short fiction from his native country of South Sudan, Tong studied philosophy and comparative literature at Duke University and fiction (MFA) at ...

Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @joel_whitney.