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Ken Kalfus 
Ken Kalfus is the author of four novels and three short story collections. His most recent novel is 2 A.M. in Little America.

Samantha Hinds
Samantha Hinds is a writer, performer, and activist. She previously worked in the field of disinformation analysis.

Aaron Gell
Aaron Gell is a freelance writer and an adjunct instructor of journalism in NYU’s Prison Education Program. His 2018 essay “Did Brian Easley Have to Die?” served as the basis for the feature film Breaking.

Will Alexander
Will Alexander is poet in residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation.

Josef Burton
Josef Burton is a former American diplomat. He is currently working on a book about the Muslim ban at the intersection of empire, migration, liberalism and Islamophobia. He tweets at @PinstripeBungle. 

Mary Turfah
Mary Turfah is a writer and resident physician.

Anabelle Johnston
Anabelle Johnston is a writer and founding editor of Syntax Magazine. She currently lives in Seoul. 

Judah Schept
Judah Schept is a professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral ...

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an assistant professor of geography and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana.

Jack Norton
Jack Norton is assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University.

Mariam Barghouti
Mariam Barghouti is a journalist and researcher based in Ramallah. She was the Senior Palestine correspondent for Mondoweiss and has been covering the region since 2011. She also worked as an independent consultant for monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian projects in the ...