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Sanya Carley

Sanya Carley is Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and coauthor of Energy-Based Economic Development.

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Simon Caney

Simon Caney, Professor in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, is coauthor of Global Justice and Climate Change, forthcoming.

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Marni Ludwig

Marni Ludwig is author of Pinwheel.

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Dave Byrne

Dave Byrne, a freelance writer from Arlington, Virginia, died on Thanksgiving Day, 2015. In the final year and a half of his life, he published four stories with Boston Review and one with Commonweal.

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Susanna Bohme

Susanna Bohme lectures in History and Literature at Harvard University and is author of Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle.

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David M. Konisky

David M. Konisky is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University and is coauthor of Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming.

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Leslee Becker

Leslee Becker teaches at Colorado State University and is author of The Sincere Café.

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Douglas Kearney

Douglas Kearney is author of Patter, The Black Automaton, and Fear, Some

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Leslee Becker

Leslee Becker teaches at Colorado State University and is author of The Sincere Cafe.

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Joelle Biele

Joelle Biele is the author of Broom and White Summer and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence.  

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Felix Bernstein

Felix Bernstein is a writer and performance/video artist. His critical and uncritical works have been published, or are forthcoming, in The Brooklyn Rail, Htmlgiant, GaussPDF, Poetrywillbemadebyall, Imperial Matters, Coldfront, and Bomb Daily. His essay "Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry" can be read on The Volta. His melodramatic videos can be found on YouTube.

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Alisa Zomer

Alisa Zomer is a graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Find her @azomer.

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CM Burroughs

CM Burroughs serves as Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia College Chicago. Burroughs has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, Callaloo Writers Workshop and the University of Pittsburgh. She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to art installations. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, her poetry has appeared in journals including Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, VOLT, Bat City Review, and Volta. Burroughs is a graduate of Sweet Briar College and the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her debut collection of poetry is The Vital System from Tupelo Press, and she is Senior Editor for Tupelo Quarterly and Co-Editor for Court Green. Learn more about Burroughs at www.cmburroughs.com.

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Scott Bartley

Scott Bartley is​ currently​ pursuing his PhD at Cornell​.​

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John W. Dower

John W. Dower is Elting E. Morison Professor of History at MIT. His book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize.

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Juan Cole

Juan Cole is professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan.

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Megan Fernandes

Megan Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College and teaches courses on poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015).
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Mark Fletcher

Mark Fletcher is an illustrator and cartoonist. He earned his BFA and BA in Art History from the University of Colorado. He lives and works in Colorado Springs.
 

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Evan DeFilippis

Evan DeFilippis manages the evaluation of poverty-reduction programs in Nairobi, Kenya at Innovations for Poverty Action. He writes on gun control issues and public health at ArmedWithReason.com and The Huffington Post. (His work does not represent the views of Innovations for Poverty Action.)

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William E. Scheuerman

William E. Scheuerman is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, where he teaches political theory. His latest book is End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century.

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Nava EtShalom

Nava EtShalom is a PhD student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Meridian and Blackbird.

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Jeremy Schmidt

Jeremy Schmidt is a PhD student in English at UCLA. His work has appeared in The Believer.

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Meghan Maguire Dahn

Meghan Maguire Dahn is an MFA student in poetry at Colubia University and a poetry reader for The New Yorker.

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Malavika Jayaram

Malavika is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

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