Joe Purtell
Joe Purtell is an independent journalist from San Francisco. He writes about urban and environmental geographies, community building, and climate change.
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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.
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.