Authors

Alicia Ostriker

Alicia Ostriker is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry, most recently Waiting for the Light.

Hai-Dang Phan is a poet, translator, and essayist based in Iowa City. He is the author of the poetry collection Reenactments (Sarabande Books) and translator of Phan Nhiên Hạo’s volume of new and selected poems, Paper Bells (The Song Cave).

Judith Mahoney Pasternak

Judith Mahoney Pasternak was born and raised in New York and now lives in Paris. She is the author of seven books on travel and popular culture, stories, poems, and essays. She was a red diaper baby.

Debra Levine

Debra Levine is the director of undergraduate studies and lecturer in theater, dance, and media at Harvard Unviersity. Her work has appeared in TDR: The Drama Review; GLQ; Disability Studies Quarterly; e-misférica, the Journal for the Hemispheric Institute of Performance; and ...

Najwan Darwish

Najwan Darwish is one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets and his work has been translated into over twenty languages. NYRB Poets publishes Darwish’s Nothing More to Lose and the forthcoming Exhausted on the Cross (February 2021), both translated by Kareem James ...

Ann Cvetkovich

Ann Cvetkovich is the director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and ...

Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Kareem James Abu-Zeid is a translator, editor, writer, and scholar. Abu-Zeid is the author of the forthcoming book The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as Spiritual Practice.

Andrew Durbin

Andrew Durbin is the author of Skyland (2020) and MacArthur Park (2017), both from Nightboat Books. He edits frieze magazine and lives in London, UK.

Karthik Purushothaman

Karthik Purushothaman is a poet from Chennai, India, who now lives in New Jersey. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prizes, and was a special mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019. His poems and nonfiction most recently appear in American Poetry Review, ...

Adam Willems

Adam Willems is a Seattle-based freelance writer and reporter. They write Divine Innovation, a somewhat cheeky newsletter on spirituality and technology.

Corinne Manning

Corinne Manning is the author of the story collection We Had No Rules.

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer based in Philadelphia, and the author of Full Surrogacy Now (Verso, 2019) and Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso, 2022). She is currently hard at work on a book for Haymarket on enemy feminisms. You can follow her on Twitter ...

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