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Patricia Smith
Patricia Smithis the author of seven books of poetry, including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, Blood Dazzler, and Incendiary Art.

Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first collection of poems, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released by Button Poetry in 2016. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, is forthcoming ...

Charif Shanahan
Charif Shanahan is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University and the author of Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing.

francine j. harris
francine j. harris is the author of play dead and a writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

Scott Bradfield
Scott Bradfield has been channeling the adventures of Dazzle the misanthropic dog for almost thirty years, which has not endeared him to the human race. He is the author of Dazzle Resplendent: adventures of a misanthropic dog.

Matt Hart
Matt Hart is the author of several books of poems, including Radiant Action. He is editor in chief of the journal Forklift, Ohio and plays in the band TRAVEL.

Peter Manseau
Peter Manseau (@plmanseau) is the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming novel The Maiden of All Our Desires.

Daniel Oberhaus
Daniel Overhaus is a writer based in Phoenix, Arizona. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Popular Mechanics, Slate, Nautilus, VICE, The Awl, Motherboard, The Outline, and elsewhere.

Jonathon Sturgeon
Jonathon Sturgeon was the editor in chief of The Baffler. He was previously senior editor of the magazine, deputy editor of artnet News, literary editor at Flavorwire, and senior editor at The American Reader. He has contributed essays on literature, visual art, cinema, and ...

Talia Lavin
Talia Lavin is a fact-checker at The New Yorker. She loves dogs, cats, and men, but owns none of the above. 

Jackson Lears
Jackson Lears, who teaches at Rutgers, is the editor of Raritan. He is also writing a book called The Wild Card: Animal Spirits in Anglo-American Economic and Cultural Life.