Jake Bittle is a staff writer at Grist covering climate change. His book about climate migration is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in February 2023.
Joe Kennedy is the author of Authentocrats: Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness (2018) and Games Without Frontiers (2016). He teaches English Literature at the University of Gothenburg.
John Patrick Leary is a professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the US Imagination and, most recently, Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism.
Kristen R. Ghodsee is the author of nine books, most recently Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold War and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And other arguments for economic independence.
Aaron Smith is the author of, most recently, The Book of Daniel. He is associate professor of creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.