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Neil M. Richards

Neil M. Richards is Koch Distinguished Professor in Law and Director of the Cordell Institute at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Katie Degentesh

Katie Degentesh is a poet and the author of The Anger Scale.

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Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff is an award-winning poet and author, and is the editor and founder of Fence Magazine and Fence Books.

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Annie Finch

Annie Finch is a poet and Director of the Stonecoast MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.

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David Hollinger

David Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Anthony Atkinson

Sir Anthony Atkinson is Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.

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Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from Harvard University and the NEA. His latest book is The New Testament. He teaches English and creative writing at Emory University.

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Andrew Durbin

Andrew Durbin co-edits Wonder, a publisher of art books, pamphlets, ephemera, and glossies. He is author of the chapbook Reveler, and his writings have appeared or are forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Maggy, and elsewhere

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Oli Hazzard

Oli Hazzard’s first book, Between Two Windows, was published by Carcanet in 2012. He is a DPhil student a Wolfson College, Oxford.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, short-story writer, essayist, and translator, he is among the most influential and accomplished literary figures of the last century. He is buried in Geneva, where he died in 1986.

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Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle is an American poet. Her most recent book, Dunce, was longlisted for the National Book Award in poetry and a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.

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Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine’s Break the Glass was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

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Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a writer and the founder of the Tambira Information Lab in Zimbabwe.

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Carmen Giménez Smith

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, four poetry collections— Milk and Filth, Goodbye, Flicker, The City She Was, and Odalisque in Pieces. Milk and Filth was a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. A CantoMundo Fellow and formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press.

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Kirill Medvedev

Kirill Medvedev is a Russian poet, musician, and activist. He is author of It’s No Good: poems/essays/actions.

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Emma Goldhammer

Emma Goldhammer is a former editorial assistant at Boston Review. Her work has appeared in Side B Magazine.

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Sam Rosen

Sam Rosen, previously an editorial assistant at Boston Review, works for Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. His writing has appeared in New York magazine and GQ.

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David I. Levine

David I. Levine is Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco

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J. Bradford DeLong

J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at U.C. Berkeley and co-author of The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money? He blogs at Grasping Reality with Both Hands.

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Danny Postel

Danny Postel is Politics Editor at New Lines Magazine. He is the author of Reading ‘Legitimation Crisis’ in Tehran and coeditor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s FutureThe Syria Dilemma, and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East.

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Nader Hashemi

Nader Hashemi is Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University. He is the author of Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies and coeditor of The Syria Dilemma.

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David Keith

David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, is author of A Case for Climate Engineering.

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Rahul Sagar

Rahul Sagar, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, is author of the forthcoming Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy.

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Lisa Russ Spaar

Lisa Russ Spaar has published over ten books of poetry and criticism, most recently Monticello in Mind: 50 Contemporary Poems on Jefferson and Orexia: Poems.  She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of Virginia.

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