Ani Gjika is an Albanian-born writer, translator, and author of Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013). Her forthcoming memoir is the recipient of Restless Books’ 2021 New Immigrant Writing Prize.
Visar Zhiti is an Albanian writer, poet, journalist, translator, diplomat, and author of more than twenty-five books. His work has been translated into several languages and received many awards in Albania, Kosovo, Romania, Italy, and France, including “Leopardi d’Oro,” ...
Benjamin Krusling is a poet and artist based in Brooklyn. His poetry book, Glaring, is out from Wendy’s Subway. A chapbook, It got so dark is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Olivia Heffernan is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her work focuses on the intersection of labor, race,and incarceration, and has been featured in The Nation, Jacobin, The Marshall Project, The Appeal, Documented, and more.
Paul Grimstad is a writer and musician based in New York. He teaches in the humanities program at Yale. A double LP of his songs and score work is forthcoming from Fire Records in 2023.
Joanna Fuhrman is an assistant teaching professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University, and the author of six books of poetry, most recently To a New Era. Her next book, Data Mind, is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press. She is an editor at Hanging ...