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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.

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 ...