Max Rivlin-Nadler
Max Rivlin-Nadler is a journalist based in New York City. He’s a co-founder of Hell Gate, a worker-owned local news outlet that you should definitely subscribe to.
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Jimmy Cajoleas
Jimmy Cajoleas was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He lives in New York.
Rachel Wilkinson
Rachel Wilkinson is a writer based in Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, Esquire, and others.
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, most recently The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights, 2024) and Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023). With Brynn Saito, he is the co-editor of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime ...
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 a writer and author in New York. He is currently writing a book about gambling for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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.