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Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie the author of The Rupture Tense and Eye Level, finalists for the National Book Award. She teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.

Jess Row
Jess Row is the author of Storyknife, a new collection of short stories to be published by Ecco in summer 2026. His other books include the novels Your Face in Mine and The New Earth and the essay collection White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American ...

Michael Oswell
Michael Oswell is a graphic designer based in the Schengen Area.

Sawako Nakayasu
Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation. Her most recent book is Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023).

Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic. A French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he currently teaches literature and creative writing in the department of French & Francophone Studies and the African Studies Center at UCLA.

Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon is a South Korean poet whose collection Phantom Pain Wings won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award. Lady No will be published in English by Ecco in April.

Andrew Leland
Andrew Leland is the author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, which was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. He is a contributing editor at The Believer, and he’s currently the Koeppel Fellow in Journalism at Wesleyan ...

Annette Hug
Annette Hug is a translator and writer whose most recent novel is Tiefenlager. She lives in Zurich.

Ry Cook
Ry Cook is the author of Freak of Nature (Choo Choo Press, 2025). ASUSHUNAMIR is out this winter from Blue Bag Press.