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Madison Mainwaring
Madison Mainwaring is completing a PhD in French at Yale University. She has written for the New York Times, Harper’s, and The Economist, among other publications.

Steven Leyva
Steven Leyva is the winner of the 2020 Jean Feldman Poetry Award for his collection, The Understudy’s Handbook.

Tope Folarin
Tope Folarin is the Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Studies. His debut novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, was published by Simon & Schuster.

Mohammad Ali
Mohammad Ali has spent most of his career reporting on Hindu supremacism. He is working on a book about India’s transformation under Narendra Modi.

Taghrid Abdelal
Taghrid Abdelal, a Palestinian born in the Nahr El Bared refugee camp in Lebanon in 1984, is a visual artist, essayist, the author of three poetry collections, and a recent winner of the Young Poets of Palestine by the Qattan Foundation. 

Hosam Maarouf
Hosam Maarouf is a Palestinian poet and novelist from Gaza. His poetry collection Death Smells Like Glass was awarded the Mahmoud Darwish Museum prize in 2015. He also writes on literature for various Arabic newspapers.

Ahlam Bsharat
Ahlam Bsharat is a memoirist, essayist, poet, and author of young adult fiction. Two of her young adult novels have been translated into English, Code Name: Butterfly and Trees for the Absentees from Neem Tree Press. She is from Jiftlik. 

Michael Wasiura
Michael Wasiura is a C-list celebrity in Russia. His journalism has appeared in n+1, Novaya Gazeta, and Komsomolskaya Pravda. He has recently finished a debut novel about the effects of fake news.

Shivani Radhakrishnan
Shivani Radhakrishnan is a writer whose work has appeared in n+1, the Washington Post, The Georgia Review, The Believer, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, and others. She is currently a PhD candidate in social philosophy at Columbia and is in training to become a psychoanalyst ...

Joshua Gutterman Tranen
Joshua Gutterman Tranen’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Jewish Currents, Catapult, and Guernica. You can find him on Twitter at @jdgtranen.