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Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian (1952–2019) was a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. His most recent books include Fascination: Memoirs and the poetry collections Tony Greene Era and Tweaky Village. “Suspiria” initially appeared in Argento Series, an early ...

Hannah Gurman

Hannah Gurman is an associate professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Dissent Papers, the editor of A People’s History of Counterinsurgency, the coeditor (with Kaeten Mistry) of Whistleblowing Nation, and is working on a book ...

Alan Guebert

Alan Guebert is an agricultural journalist who has worked as a writer and editor at Professional Farmers of America, Successful Farming and Farm Journal. His syndicated column, “The Farm and Food File,” began in 1993 and appears weekly in more than fifty newspapers ...

Chris Crowley

Chris Crowley is a writer for New York magazine’s Grub Street, covering the city, the restaurant industry, and the people who work in it.

Christopher Bosso

Christopher Bosso is a professor of public policy and politics at Northeastern University, Boston. He is the author of Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and the Agricultural Act of 2014 and the forthcoming Why SNAP Works: A Political History—and Defense—of the ...

Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems, including A Film in Which I Play Everyone (September 2023). She has published translations of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio, and Colonies of Paradise by Matthias Göritz.

Vinko Zgaga

Vinko Zgaga has translated several plays for stage production, including Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending (2008), Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo (2009), and Simon Stephens’s Light Falls (2022). He also has a long-standing working ...

Sven Popović

Sven Popović is a writer and both a literary and music critic. His debut, a collection of short stories, was published in 2015, followed by a novel in 2018. Popović is a cofounder of the literary group Tko čita? (Who Reads?), which gives younger authors the opportunity to ...

Sean Michaels

Sean Michaels is the author of the novel Do You Remember Being Born?, as well as Us Conductors and The Wagers. His non-fiction has appeared in The Guardian, McSweeney’s, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker. Sean is a recipient of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Grand Prix ...

Yumi Lee

Yumi Lee teaches Asian American and other U.S. literatures at Villanova University. She lives in Philadelphia and is currently working on several writing projects, including an academic book on American narratives of the Korean War.

Ella Quittner

Ella Quittner is a writer. She’s working on a book for Harper Collins about why Americans are obsessed with “the best.”

Leo Kim

Leo Kim is a writer based out of New York interested in the uncanny expressions of our technology and media culture. He’s previously written for Wired, Polygon, Real Life, Mother Jones, and others.