Janna Shaftan
Janna Shaftan is an electrical engineer and writer living in Brooklyn. She previously wrote a column called the Glimmer on local theater, music and film for the Brooklyn Eagle.
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John Lechner
John Lechner is a journalist focused on central Africa, the Sahel, and the former Soviet Union. His history of Russian mercenaries and the Wagner Group will be published by Bloomsbury on March 4.
Juliet Escoria
Juliet Escoria is the author of You Are the Snake (Soft Skull, 2024), Juliet the Maniac (Melville House, 2019), and Witch Hunt & Black Cloud: New and Collected Works (CLASH, 2023). She grew up in Del Mar, CA and now lives in West Virginia.
Michael Barron
Michael Barron is a writer, editor, and temporary resident of Chicago.
Nima Bassiri
Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature and codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University. He is a social theorist, historian, and philosopher of the human sciences, and author of Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the ...
Anna Krauthamer
Anna Krauthamer is a writer and a PhD candidate in English literature at Columbia University. Her research focuses on sexual violence and contemporary literature.
Daniel Lefferts
Daniel Lefferts is a writer living in the Hudson Valley. His debut novel, Ways and Means, was published in 2024 and his work has appeared in the Paris Review and elsewhere.
Caleb Brennan
Caleb Brennan is a writer and journalist based out of Chicago. His work can be found in publications like The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, and The Appeal.
Tariq Kenney-Shawa
Tariq Kenney-Shawa is a U.S. policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian think tank and policy network, and a producer at AJ+. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and The Nation, and ...
Heather Radke
Heather Radke is a writer and contributing editor to Radiolab. Her first book, Butts: A Backstory, was named a best book of the year by Esquire, Time, and Publisher’s Weekly. She teaches writing at Columbia University.
Lena Valencia
Lena Valencia is the author of the short story collection Mystery Lights, published by Tin House Books in the US and Dead Ink Books in the UK. Her fiction has appeared in BOMB, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, Epiphany, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is ...
Max Alper
Max Alper is the director of product at Circular Ruin Studios and a composer, music technologist, educator, and writer based in New York. Formerly as “La Meme Young,” now as “Peretsky,” you can find him commenting on experimental music and audio culture through the art ...