Kyra Simone is a Tunisian-American writer from Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, The Denver Quarterly, The Anthology of Best American Experimental ...
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 ...
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 is an independent journalist from San Francisco. He writes about urban and environmental geographies, community building, and climate change.
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 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’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.