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Leif Weatherby
Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German at New York University. His forthcoming book is called Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism.

Cynthia Zarin
Cynthia Zarin is the author of six collections of poems, including most recently Next Day: New and Selected Poems, as well as a novel, Inverno, two books of essays, and several books for children.

Ariel Yelen
Ariel Yelen is a poet whose work has been published in Poetry, BOMB, the American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, and other magazines. “All morning, tax evasion” appears in the collection I Was Working (Princeton 2024).

Arthur Tress
Arthur Tress is a photographer living in San Francisco. His work is concerned with researching the archetypal patterns in our contemporary lives.

Zan de Parry
Zan de Parry wrote Cold Dogs (The Song Cave) and lives in Michigan.

Laleh Khalili
Laleh Khalili is a professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK and the author or editor of seven books, including Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.

Justin Guthrie
Justin Guthrie is a contemporary artist working in photography and sculpture. Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he is now based in Los Angeles.

Manuela Draeger
Manuela Draeger is one of several heteronyms of the French author Antoine Volodine. She belongs to a community of imaginary authors that includes Lutz Bassmann and Elli Kronauer. She has been publishing novels for adolescents since 2002.

Nina Pasquini
Nina Pasquini is a writer living in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, and elsewhere.

Susan Bernofsky, Sharon Dodua Otoo, and Tyrell Otoo
Susan Bernofsky is a writer and the award-winning translator of works by Robert Walser, Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, and many others. Her book, Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, was a finalist for the 2021 ...

Madeleine Watts
Madeleine Watts is the author of the novels Elegy, Southwest (forthcoming February 2025), and The Inland Sea (2021), which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her work has been published by Harper’s, The ...