Sam Backer
Sam Backer is the cohost of Money 4 Nothing, a podcast about music and capitalism. He is currently a PhD candidate in history at Johns Hopkins University.
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Sharanya Deepak
Sharanya Deepak is a writer based in New Delhi. She writes about food, culture, and conflict. You can read her work here.
Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
Ezequiel Zaidenwerg is a poet, translator and essayist, not necessarily in that order. His most recent book is 50 estados: 13 poetas contemporáneos de Estados Unidos, a novelized anthology of recent American poetry. He translates a poem a day at zaidenwerg.com, produces the ...
Yelena Furman
Yelena Furman lives in Los Angeles and teaches Russian literature at UCLA. She has published articles in various academic journals, book reviews in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and fiction in Narrative.
Alyssa Pelish
Alyssa Pelish’s fiction and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The New England Review, Cabinet, The Paris Review online, Harper’s, and Slate. She lives in New York.
Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley writes on architecture, culture and politics for various publications. He is the author of several books, most recently Red Metropolis (Repeater, 2020), and the editor of The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs (Open House, 2020). He is the culture editor ...
Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Ostriker is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry, most recently Waiting for the Light.
Hai-Dang Phan
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 ...