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Kate Folk
Kate Folk is the author of Out There, a story collection. Her first novel, Sky Daddy, will be released in 2025. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.

Jenn Pelly
Jenn Pelly is the author of The Raincoats (2017) and a writer for Pitchfork, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others.

K. F. Watanabe
K. F. Watanabe is a writer based in Tokyo. He previously served as the Deputy Director of Film at Japan Society in New York where he oversaw year-round film programming.

Lauren Fadiman
Lauren Fadiman is an assistant editor at Jacobin, a PhD student in history at Yale University, and a practicing folklorist, whose writing on contemporary legends, conspiracy theories, and the cultural periphery can be found in Current Affairs, Orion, Real Life, and ...

Mariame Kaba
Mariame Kaba is a leading prison and police abolitionist. She is the founder and director of Project NIA and the cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization. She is the author of We Do This ’Til We Free Us and coauthor (with Andrea J. Ritchie) of No More Police and lives in ...

Chris Andrews
Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. As well as translating nine books by Roberto Bolaño and ten books (and counting) by César Aira, he also brought the French author Kaouther Adimi’s Our Riches into English for New Directions. He has published two ...

Liliana Colanzi
Liliana Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz in Bolivia and has published three collections of short stories. She is the founder of Dum Dum publishing house in Bolivia, an indie press focusing on fiction that mixes genres and “has a foot in the jungle and another one on Mars.”

Toby Jaffe
Toby Jaffe is a writer published in The New Republic, American Prospect, Paste Magazine, and elsewhere. 

Yizhou Guo
Yizhou Guo got her PhD in feminist studies from University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research was about the intersection of postsocialist affects and radical queer political imaginary in China. She currently works as a human-centered user experience designer, converging ...

Cui Zi’en
Cui Zi’en is a film director, writer, and activist. He is Associate Professor at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy.

Lily Scherlis
Lily Scherlis has written for the Guardian, Parapraxis, and Cabinet.