Mónica de la Torre is recipient of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry. A new collection, Pause the Document, is forthcoming from Nightboat in 2025.
Matene Toure is a freelance writer and critic from New York City. Her work covers politics, film,art, and culture. Her film writing focuses on spotlighting Black and anticolonial cinema, andavant-garde film practices across the Black diaspora and MENA region.
Suja Sawafta is a Palestinian American writer and critic. She is currently Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Miami and is at work on her first book on the Saudi-Iraqi novelist Abdulrahman Munif, most famously known for his epic novel Cities of ...
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.
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.