Scott Branson
Scott Branson is a writer and translator who teaches at Appalachian State University.
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Guy Hocquenghem
Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988) taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes, Paris. An activist and pioneering queer theorist, he was the author of many books, including Homosexual Desire, as well as a staff writer for the French publication Libération and a founding ...
Amanda Sperber
Amanda Sperber is an award-winning journalist and researcher who has lived and worked across East Africa since 2013.
Victoria Baena
Victoria Baena is currently a research fellow at the New York Public Library. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Yale, and her writing has appeared in Boston Review, Dissent, L.A. Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Joe Purtell
Joe Purtell is an independent journalist from San Francisco. He writes about urban and environmental geographies, community building, and climate change.
Ruben Pater
Ruben Pater is an Amsterdam-based designer, writer, and tutor who creates visual narratives that support solidarity, justice, and equality. Untold-stories.net
Molly Osberg
Molly Osberg is a writer on the East Coast with an interest in crime, labor, technology, and the American health care system. She still makes a killer cup of coffee.
Max Nelson
Max Nelson’s writings on film and literature have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and other publications. He has been researching the life and work of Jay Leyda.
Pamela Mordecai
Pamela Mordecai has published eight collections of poetry, five children’s books, a novel, and a collection of short fiction. A selection of her poems, A Fierce Green Place, is out this month from New Directions.
Willis McCumber
Willis McCumber is a doctoral candidate in American literature at the University at Buffalo. He lives in Queens and teaches first-year writing at Baruch College.
Charlie Lee
Charlie Lee is an assistant editor at Harper’s magazine and cofounder of Soft Punk magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.
Robert Iulo
Robert Iulo began writing after retiring from a career with the city of New York. His work has appeared in journals including Atticus Review, Gastronomica, and Puppy Love. He’s a native New Yorker and still lives there.