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.
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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.
Erin MacNair
Erin MacNair is a Wisconsinite now living in North Vancouver, Canada. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, december, Prism International, and others.
Tobias Kirchwey
Tobias Kirchwey lives in Brooklyn and works as an emergency medicine resident physician at Kings County and SUNY Downstate.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais
Noah Caldwell-Gervais is a writer and video game critic. His video essays can be found on YouTube @broadcaststsatic.
K. Biswas
K. Biswas (@BizK1) is a critic based in London whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation and the Times Literary Supplement.
Frankie de la Cretaz
Frankie de la Cretaz is an independent journalist whose work sits at the intersection of sports, gender, and culture. They are the co-author of Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League, and their writing has appeared in the New York ...