Authors

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 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.

Shamira Ibrahim

Shamira Ibrahim is a Brooklyn-based writer by way of Harlem, Canada, and East Africa, who explores identity, cultural production, and technology.

Ilya Gridneff

Ilya Gridneff is a Brussels-based writer who has lived and worked in Berlin, Juba, London, Nairobi, Port Moresby, and Sydney. He wrote a book with Helen DeWitt that was never published.

Grayson Del Faro

Grayson Del Faro is the author of The Sagas and Shit: Icelandic Literature Crudely Abridged. His poetry appears in Evergreen Review, Lammergeier, and SPECTRA Poets.

Dennard Dayle

Dennard Dayle is a Jamaican American writer from New York City. His short fiction has been published by The New Yorker, The Hard Times, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. Everything Abridged is Dayle’s debut collection.

Alessandra Bergamin

Alessandra Bergamin is an Australian journalist based in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on international environmental conflict and human rights.

Daisy Pitkin

Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for U.S. labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers. She is the author of On the Line: A Story of Class, ...

Sophia Stewart

Sophia Stewart is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. She lives in Brooklyn and tweets at @smswrites.

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