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Alex de Waal

Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a research professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is an expert on the Horn of Africa, humanitarian issues, and famine. He has worked on Ethiopia and its neighbors since the mid-1980s and is ...

Olúfémi Táíwò

Olúfémi Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He researches and teaches social/political philosophy.

Britt Stigler

Britt Stigler is a New York City-based arts, culture, and performance writer and editor. She co-runs Ballerina Book Club for WNET, New York Public Media’s ALL ARTS.

Lucas Sharp

Lucas Sharp is a typeface designer and a founding partner of Sharp Type Co.

Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic, Dancing in Odessa, and Musica Humana.

Su Hwang

Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega (Milkweed Editions), which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and ...

James Graham

James Graham lives in Paris. He’s the other James Graham, not the English playwright. His new novel is le Plouc de Paris, a comedic romp through the Apocalypse. You can read him and reach him at Continental Riffs on Substack.

Katie Farris

Katie Farris is the author of boysgirls, and the chapbooks Mother Superior in Hell and Thirteen Intimacies.

Regina Derieva

Regina Derieva (February 7, 1949–December 11, 2013) was a Russian poet and writer who published around thirty books of poetry, essays, and prose.

Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He is the winner of the Peabody Award for his film Road Scholar and the Ovid Prize for poetry.

Keisha N. Blain

Keisha N. Blain is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. Her latest books are Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 and Until I am Free: Fannie Lou ...

Simon Balto

Simon Balto teaches, researches, and writes about African American history in the United States. His first book is Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.