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Jessi Jezewska Stevens

Jessi Jezewska Stevens is the author of the novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, as well as the forthcoming story collection Ghost Pains (March 2024, And Other Stories). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, Foreign Policy, ...

Sadie Graham

Sadie Graham is a writer of essays, reviews, and fiction with work published in Vice, Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, the Toronto Star, and Canadian Notes & Queries. Find her on Twitter @westcoastnoir.

Eli Frankel

Eli Frankel researches technology and the history of political thought at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. 

Sarah Arkebauer

Sarah Arkebauer holds a PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. She is at work on a book about historical fiction and millennial girlhood. She lives in St. Louis.

Michael Blair

Michael Blair is a writer in New York. He is a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine and coauthor of Young Marble Giants’ Colossal Youth (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Elia Cugini

Elia Cugini is a PhD student and culture writer based in Manchester. His work can be found in Gawker, Dazed, Xtra, and elsewhere.

Meg Weeks

Meg Weeks is a historian, writer, and translator. Her writing on art and politics has appeared in n+1, Artforum, frieze, piauí, and Hyperallergic, and her translations of contemporary Brazilian fiction have been published by Adi, Two Lines Press, and Asymptote. Her translation ...

Steve Macfarlane

Originally from Seattle, Steve Macfarlane is a filmmaker, programmer, and writer based in Ridgewood, NY. He is an active volunteer at Spectacle, where he has curated screenings for over ten years, and has presented movies at MoMA, the Smithsonian National Museum of ...

Kate Zambreno

Kate Zambreno is the author of many books, including The Light Room, forthcoming from Riverhead in July. Tone, a collaborative work of criticism with Sofia Samatar, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in the fall. A new edition ...

Nastassja Martin

Nastassja Martin is a French author and anthropologist who has studied the Gwich’in people of Alaska and the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula. In addition to two books arising from this research, she has also written Croire aux fauves, a memoir recounting her ...

Sophie R. Lewis

Sophie R. Lewis is an editor and a translator from French and Portuguese. Authors she has translated include Stendhal, Jules Verne, Violette Leduc, Leila Slimani, Noémi Lefebvre, Sheyla Smanioto and Patrícia Melo. She received the French-American Foundation’s 2022 ...

Leah Finnegan

Leah Finnegan is a writer and editor in New York. She was most recently the editor in chief of Gawker.