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Rose McLarney
Rose McLarney is the author, most recently, of Colorfast.

Marie Gottschalk
Marie Gottschalk is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics.

Steven D. Cohen
Steven D. Cohen is a journalist and researcher whose reporting on Colombia has appeared in The New Republic, Liga Contra El Silencio, The Nation, La Silla Vacía, and Vice.

John F. Pfaff
John F. Pfaff is a professor of law at Fordham University and the author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration – and how to Achieve Real Reform.

Rachel Connolly
Rachel Connolly is a writer from Belfast, now based in London. She writes about technology and cultural trends.

Alicia Kennedy
Alicia Kennedy is a writer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has a weekly newsletter on food culture, politics, and media, and is at work on a book about veganism that will come out in 2022.

Jack Sheehan
Jack Sheehan is an Irish writer, historian, and middle school teacher living in New York. He has written for the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the New York Times, among others.

Rachel Hawley
Rachel Hawley is a freelance writer and graphic designer based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in The Outline and The Chicago Reader.

Oscar Schwartz
Oscar Schwartz is a writer and journalist based in New York. His work has appeared in the Guardian, The Atlantic, and The Monthly, among others. He tweets here.

Ed Simon
Ed Simon is Public Humanities Special Faculty in English at Carnegie Mellon University and the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Pittsburgh Review of Books, as well as a staff writer for LitHub. His writing has appeared at The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The New York ...

Lizzie O’Shea
Lizzie O’Shea is a practicing lawyer, writer, and broadcaster. She is the author of Future Histories, a guide to how historical social movements and thinkers are relevant to debates about technology today, and is a founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch. Her commentary ...