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Lindsay Ballant
Lindsay Ballant is art director of The Baffler. Born into the fates of being a Scorpio, an early millennial, and an Orioles fan, she’s an ex-New Yorker and self-identifies her home state of Maryland to be part of The North. Previously, Lindsay applied her love of shapes and ...

Tim Shorrock
Tim Shorrock, who grew up in Japan and South Korea, has been writing about Korea since the late 1970s and is a correspondent for The Nation and the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism. Last May, he was the only American reporter to interview Moon Jae-in during his run for ...

CAConrad
CAConrad is the author of nine books of poetry and essays. The latest is titled While Standing in Line for Death (September 2017).

Cynthia Cruz
Cynthia Cruz is the author of four collections of poems including, most recently, How the End Begins, as well as essays and art reviews. She is a PhD candidate in German Language and Literature and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Megan Carpentier
Megan Carpentier is a writer and editor, who has worked for The Guardian and Talking Points Memo, among others, and been published by Esquire, the Washington Post, Jezebel and the Daily Beast. She’s the only known writer to have had simultaneous bylines in Us Weekly and ...

Cam Awkward-Rich
Cam Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster and a doctoral candidate in modern thought and literature at Stanford University.

Hawa Allan
Hawa Allan writes cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry. She is an essay editor at The Offing and her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Tricycle magazine, where she is a contributing editor. Her book Insurrection, a weaving of ...

Erica R. Meiners
Erica R. Meiners is a professor of gender and women’s studies and education at Northeastern Illinois University and the author of For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State.

Judith Levine
Judith Levine is the author of four books, including Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Women From Sex. She blogs frequently for The Boston Review.

Patrick Iber
Patrick Iber is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.

Patrick Blanchfield
Patrick Blanchfield is a freelance writer and Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His book, Gunpower: Breaking the Cycle of 500 Years of American Violence, is forthcoming from Verso Books in 2019. Find him on Twitter as @patblanchfield.