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Sawako Nakayasu
Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation. Her most recent book is Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023).

Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic. A French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he currently teaches literature and creative writing in the department of French & Francophone Studies and the African Studies Center at UCLA.

Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon is a South Korean poet whose collection Phantom Pain Wings won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award. Lady No will be published in English by Ecco in April.

Andrew Leland
Andrew Leland is the author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, which was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. He is a contributing editor at The Believer, and he’s currently the Koeppel Fellow in Journalism at Wesleyan ...

Annette Hug
Annette Hug is a translator and writer whose most recent novel is Tiefenlager. She lives in Zurich.

Ry Cook
Ry Cook is the author of Freak of Nature (Choo Choo Press, 2025). ASUSHUNAMIR is out this winter from Blue Bag Press.

Brace Belden
Brace Belden is the cohost of the podcast TrueAnon.

Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin is a novelist and playwright. He was born in Kassala, Sudan, in 1963, and lived in Khashm el-Girba until he was forced into exile in 2011 by the previous military regime in Khartoum.

Yassin Adnan
Yassin Adnan is a Moroccan writer, editor, and journalist. He is the editor of Marrakech Noir and the author of five books of poetry, three short story collections, and the novel Hot Maroc.

Sean Hooks
Sean Hooks is a writer, professor, and editor, born and raised in New Jersey. He has resided in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex since 2021 after extended stints in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He publishes regularly, teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, and holds a ...

Adam Wilson
Adam Wilson is the author of four books, including the forthcoming novel, Fail Sons. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Believer, VICE, Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, and The Best American ...