Authors

Paula Bohince

Paula Bohince’s third collection, Swallows and Waves, was published by Sarabande in 2016.

Liana Finck’s cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Awl, and Catapult. Her autobiographical Instagram feed is @lianafinck. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco Press in 2014.

Ngwah-Mbo Nana Nkweti

Ngwah-Mbo Nana Nkweti is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Kimbilio, and Clarion West as well as a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was Writer-In-Residence at Hub City in fall 2016.

Mike Edison

Mike Edison is the former editor and publisher of High Times magazine and the author of numerous books, including I Have Fun Everywhere I Go and You Are A Complete Disappointment.

Ellie Mae O’Hagan

Ellie Mae O’Hagan is a freelance journalist living in London. Her work regularly appears in the Guardian. She has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Times of London, and Vice.

Zachary Roth

Zachary Roth is the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, & the Conservative Assault on Democracy.

Micah Fields

Micah Fields lives in Iowa City, where he is an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.

Kyle Paoletta

Kyle Paoletta is the author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest, which will be published by Pantheon in January 2025. He is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

David Roth

David Roth is a writer from New Jersey who lives in New York. He is on Twitter at @david_j_roth.

Audrey Watters

Audrey Watters is a writer and independent scholar who focuses on education technology—its politics and its pedagogical implications. She is a recipient of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean is an author and educator living in Geneva, New York, where she has been active in the We Are Seneca Lake civil disobedience movement and the Geneva Women’s Assembly.

Ben Becker

Ben Becker is an organizer for the Justice Center en El Barrio and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

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