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Petra Browne
Petra Browne has previously written for The Believer and is currently at work on a novel. She lives in Queens, New York.

Meg Bernhard
Meg Bernhard is a journalist based in the Southwest with work in the The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She’s at work on a book about the world’s deserts for Random House.

Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg is the author of six works of fiction, most recently the novel State of Paradise. Laura teaches fiction at Harvard University and lives in the Hudson Valley. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Adedayo Agarau
Adedayo Agarau is the author of The Years of Blood (Fordham University Press), Origin of Name (African Poetry Book Fund), and The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press). He is the editor in chief of Agbowó Magazine.

Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch is the author of seven published novels and a collection of short stories. Her first  novel,  L.C., was  a  recipient  of  an  NEA  heritage  award  and  a  Lannan  Foundation  grant. She has also received two Vogelstein Foundation awards and a ...

Shoaib Shafi
Shoaib Shafi is a writer and independent journalist based out of Kashmir. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, The British Medical Journal, Hyperallergic, Condé Nast Traveler, and elsewhere.

Nihal El Aasar
Nihal El Aasar is an Egyptian writer, researcher, political analyst, and radio host based in London. She has written about politics, political economy, culture, and literature for various publications. 

Kate Durbin
Kate Durbin is a writer and artist based in Los Angeles. She is the author of four books, including E! Entertainment and Hoarders, which was named a best book of 2021 by NPR, Lit Hub, and Electric Literature. Her poetry app, Abra, received the international Turn on Literature ...

Dave Infante
Dave Infante is a two-time James Beard award-winning journalist who covers the food and drink industries. He publishes Fingers, an independent newsletter about drinking in America. He also works as a contributing editor and columnist at VinePair, where he publishes the ...

Abdelrahman ElGendy
Abdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer and translator from Cairo. He is the author of HUNA, a memoir about his six-year political incarceration in Egypt, forthcoming from Hogarth in 2026. The winner of the 2024 Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award, ElGendy’s work ...