Billie Anania
Billie Anania is an editor, organizer, and journalist in Brooklyn whose work focuses on political economy in the cultural industries and the history of art in global liberation movements.
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Suleiman Al-Bustani
Born in Mount Lebanon, Suleiman Al-Bustani was a poet, translator, historian, and politician. His spent much of his life traveling across many cities, including Cairo, New York, Istanbul, and Beirut. From 1887 to 1904, he worked on the first complete translation of The Iliad ...
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.