Authors

Columns

Jared Olson

Jared Olson is a writer and independent investigative journalist. Focusing on human rights in Mexico and Honduras, his reportage has appeared in The Intercept, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Al-Jazeera, and Foreign Policy, and has been featured on ...

Rachel Pafe

Rachel Pafe is a writer, researcher, and PhD student focusing on modern Jewish thought at University of Leipzig. She recently edited a multidisciplinary collection of conversations on Susan Taubes, Reading Taubes in Constellation (Pseudo Press, 2022). 

Billie Anania

Billie Anania is an editor, organizer, and journalist in Brooklyn whose work focuses on political economy in the cultural industries and the history of art in global liberation movements.

Suleiman Al-Bustani

Born in Mount Lebanon, Suleiman Al-Bustani was a poet, translator, historian, and politician. His spent much of his life traveling across many cities, including Cairo, New York, Istanbul, and Beirut. From 1887 to 1904, he worked on the first complete translation of The Iliad ...

Christa Romanosky

Christa Romanosky is a writer and educator from Southwestern Pennsylvania. Her writing has been included in Best American Short Stories 2021, POETRY magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, The Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She has previously ...

Kevin Brazil

Kevin Brazil is the author of Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness (2022). He lives in London.

Jesse Robertson

Jesse Robertson is a doctoral student in history at Harvard University.

Scott Branson

Scott Branson is a queer transfemme writer, translator, teacher, and organizer. They translated Guy Hocquenghem’s second book as Gay Liberation After May ’68 (Duke University Press, 2022), and recently published their book Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily ...

Montana Ray

Montana Ray holds an MFA in poetry and translation and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University. She translates from Portuguese and Spanish and writes poetry and nonfiction. Ray is Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU, where her classes include “A ...

Damion Searls

Damion Searls is a translator, most recently of Jon Fosse’s Septology, Thomas Mann’s New Selected Stories, and Victoria Kielland’s My Men, and the author of a book of short stories and a history of the Rorschach test.

Alicia Mountain

Alicia Mountain is the author of Four in Hand (BOA Editions, 2023) and High Ground Coward (Iowa, 2018). She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and a PhD from the University of Denver. Mountain teaches at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.

Umber Majeed

Umber Majeed is a Pakistani-American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her media installations engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens.