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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.

Andrew Elrod

Andrew Elrod is a historian and writer. He works in the research department of the labor union United Teachers Los Angeles.

Ian Dreiblatt

Ian Dreiblatt is the author of forget thee (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021) and the translator of Dmitrii Furman’s Imitation Democracy (Verso Books, 2022). He lives in Brooklyn and is working on a book about the dreamy political uses of interesting writing.

Mari Cohen

Mari Cohen is associate editor at Jewish Currents. She lives in Brooklyn.

Adam Cavanaugh

Adam Cavanaugh is a writer and librarian living in rural Ontario. His writing has appeared in Longcon, Art Metropole, Commo mag, and Celluloid Lunch. He is currently working on a novel.  

Ottilie Mulzet

Ottilie Mulzet has translated the work of László Krasznahorkai, Szilárd Borbély, Gábor Schein, György Dragomán, Edina Szvoren, and many others from Hungarian.

Gábor Schein

Gábor Schein is the author of five novels and over nine volumes of poetry. His most recent novel in English is Autobiographies of an Angel (tr. Ottilie Mulzet), published by Yale University Press, 2022.

Julia Kornberg

Julia Kornberg is a writer from Buenos Aires living in New York. She is the author of the novel Atomizado Berlín.

Eileen G’Sell

Eileen G’Sell is the author of Life After Rugby (2018), and a regular contributor to Hyperallergic, The Hopkins Review, Reverse Shot, and The LA Review of Books. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.