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Leila Markosian
Leila Markosian is the administrative coordinator for The Baffler. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Helen Phillips
Helen Phillips is the author of six books, including the novel Hum (August 6, 2024). Her novel The Need was a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times Notable Book. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and she teaches at Brooklyn College. ...

Benedict Nguyễn
Benedict Nguyễn is a freelance dancer, creative producer, and author of the [redacted] work email zine nasty notes. Her debut novel Hot Girls with Balls is forthcoming from Catapult in 2025.

Moeko Fujii
Moeko Fujii is an essayist and critic, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Criterion, Aperture Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently writes a column on film for Orion Magazine. 

Lia Swope Mitchell
Lia Swope Mitchell is a writer and translator from Minneapolis. Her translations include Solo Viola by Antoine Volodine and Kree by Manuela Draeger (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press). Her original fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Apex, Terraform, and ...

Antoine Volodine
Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French-Russian writer who has published twenty books under this name, of which several are available in English translation, including Radiant Terminus, Solo Viola, and Mevlido’s Dreams. Other pseudonyms in the ...

Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name.

Wendy Pearlman
Wendy Pearlman is professor of political science and the Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Her new book, The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora is published by Liveright Books.

Erin MacNair
Erin MacNair is a Wisconsinite now living in North Vancouver, Canada. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, december, Prism International, and others.

Tobias Kirchwey
Tobias Kirchwey lives in Brooklyn and works as an emergency medicine resident physician at Kings County and SUNY Downstate.

Noah Caldwell-Gervais
Noah Caldwell-Gervais is a writer and video game critic. His video essays can be found on YouTube @broadcaststsatic.