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Stephanie Burt
Stephanie Burt is Donald and Katherine Loker Professor of English at Harvard. Her most recent books include Super Gay Poems (2025) and We Are Mermaids (2022). Her book about Taylor Swift will appear from Basic Books this fall.

Susan Zakin
Susan Zakin is the editor of Journal of the Plague Year. She is the author of several books, including Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement and Waiting for Charlie. More of her writing can be found ...

Francis Wade
Francis Wade is a journalist and author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence And The Making Of A Muslim ‘Other‘.

Adrian Nathan West
Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator, essayist, and author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and My Father’s Diet.

Michael King
Michael King, a former news editor and staff writer at the Austin Chronicle and former editor of The Texas Observer, is now a contributing writer at the Austin Chronicle.

Lina Mounzer
Lina Mounzer is a writer and translator living in Beirut. Her essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Literary Hub, Bidoun, and Rusted Radishes, as well as in the anthologies Hikayat: An Anthology of Lebanese Women’s Writing (Telegram Books: ...

Lily Watson
Lily Watson is a writer based in Seattle. She is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University with a degree in sociology.

Leo Schwartz
Leo Schwartz (@leomschwartz) is a reporter at Rest of World. He was previously the web editor at the NACLA Report, and his work has appeared in the Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and Roads & Kingdoms.

Benjamin Weil
Benjamin Weil is a writer and health promoter. He currently works as a research and community knowledge generation coordinator for The Love Tank, a London-based not-for-profit.

Patrick McGinty
Patrick McGinty lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the English Department at Slippery Rock University. His debut novel about the driverless car sector, Test Drive, will be published by Propeller Books in May 2022.

Nabila Lovelace
A writer born and raised in Queens, Nabila Lovelace’s debut book of poems, Sons of Achilles, is out now through YesYes Books.