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Sandra Lim

Sandra Lim is the author of the poetry collections Loveliest Grotesque (2006), which won a Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry, and The Wilderness (2014), winner of a Barnard Women Poets Prize. Lim’s work has been anthologized in Gurlesque (2010), The Racial Imaginary ...

Brandon Kreitler

Brandon Kreitler is the author of Late Frontier, selected by Major Jackson for the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship. He lives in New York City and edits Practice Catalogue.

Sarah Smarsh

Sarah Smarsh is the author of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, forthcoming in September from Scribner.

Robin West

Robin West is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy and Associate Dean at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Jacob Siegel

Jacob Siegel is a writer living in New York whose work has been published in The New York Times, Tablet, Politico, the New York Daily News, Vice, and the National Endowment for the Humanities magazine, among other places. He was a former staff writer at The Daily Beast, where he ...

Lucy Ives

Lucy Ives writes frequently on visual art and literature. Her third novel, Life Is Everywhere, is out now from Graywolf Press.

Olivia Parkes

Olivia Parkes is a writer and painter based in Berlin.

Kieran Dahl

Kieran Dahl is a freelance writer and copywriter. He lives in Brooklyn, for now. He doesn’t have an Instagram.

Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson is a contributing editor at The Arts Fuse. His writing has appeared in The American Interest, the Guardian, The Millions, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in New Orleans.

Brendan James

Brendan James is a writer, musician, and co-author of The Chapo Guide To Revolution. 

Jennifer Schaffer

Jennifer Schaffer is an American writer living in London. You can find her on Twitter at @jmschaff.

Josh Fruhlinger

Josh Fruhlinger, a writer in Los Angeles, will be portraying for Baffler readers the key players in the ever-changing Trump administration.