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Erica Vital-Lazare

Erica Vital-Lazare is a professor of Creative Writing and 135 Marginalized Voices in Dystopian Literature at the College of Southern Nevada. She is the cohost of the podcast Black Mountain Radio, editor of McSweeney’s Of the Diaspora series, and cofounder of the Obodo ...

Sam Sweet

Sam Sweet is the writer and publisher behind All Night Menu, an ongoing collection of books and archival works that map the unseen histories of Los Angeles. “Second Chance Suite” is an excerpt from All Night Menu: Vol. 5.

Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023) and The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019). His collection of essays on the memory/forgetting of Japanese American incarceration, The Afterlife Is Letting ...

Lisa Olstein

Lisa Olstein is the author of seven books of poetry and prose, including Dream Apartment forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in September 2023.

Jamie Lauren Keiles

Jamie Lauren Keiles is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and runs the trans archival history account @sexchange.tbt on Instagram. His book The Third Person, a journalistic account of nonbinary identity in America, will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in ...

David Hill

David Hill is the author of The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice and the host of the Spotify Original podcast Gamblers.

Isobel Harbison

Isobel Harbison is an Irish art historian and lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She writes for magazines including Art Review, Frieze, the London Review of Books, and The White Review.

Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin is the author of five novels, two collections of poetry, and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, and New Voices from the Academy of American ...

Kathleen Alcott

Kathleen Alcott is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the short story collection Emergency. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, and The Best American Short Stories.

Kenneth Dillon

Kenneth Dillon is a writer from New York. His work has appeared in publications including The Drift, Los Angeles Review of Books, Cleveland Review of Books, New York Review of Architecture, and Publishers Weekly. Follow him on Twitter ...

Jen Monroe

Jen Monroe is a chef and artist whose project, Bad Taste, is committed to exploring new ways of thinking about food and consumption. Her past work includes a dinner about the honey bee crisis; a one-hundred-square-foot edible map of New York City; experimental cotton candy; a ...

Byron Davies

Byron Davies teaches philosophy at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).