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Maz Do
Maz Do is an Indonesian-Vietnamese American writer from the Bay Area. Her fiction has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and other venues. She is also a Kundiman Fellow, a Tin House alumnus, and an MFA student in fiction at Cornell University. This year she was ...

Cara Blue Adams
Cara Blue Adams is the author of the interlinked story collection You Never Get It Back, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, awarded the John Simmons Short Fiction Prize, and longlisted for The Story Prize. She teaches at Temple University and lives in Brooklyn and the Hudson ...

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. 

Noelle Mateer
Noelle Mateer is a writer in Pittsburgh. She writes about the Rust Belt at pathenewsletter.substack.com. 

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.