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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.

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.