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Peter Filkins

Peter Filkins is the translator of Ingeborg Bachmann’s complete poems, Darkness Spoken, as well as her two novel fragments, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann. The author of a biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, he has also published five collections of poetry, most recently Water / Music. He teaches at Bard College.

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Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1926 and died in Rome in 1973. She was the author of two books of poetry as well as short stories, novels, essays, opera libretti, and radio plays. She is considered one of the most eminent German-language poets of her generation.

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Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson is the author of two books of poetry, The Afterlife of Objects and the forthcoming Natural History.

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Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi is the author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and Other Poems 1987–1992. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Mary Maxwell

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Marian Marzynski

Marian Marzynski is a documentary filmmaker who contributes to such PBS series as Frontline, Nova, and The American Experience. He was a 1982 Guggenheim Fellow and has won several Emmy and Columbia University–DuPont awards. He lives in Boston with his wife Grazyna, an architect.

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Debora Kuan

Debbie Kuan’s poems have appeared in Fence, Crowd, and Salt Hill. She lives in Iowa City.

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Penelope Cray

Penelope Cray has published her work in Barrow Street, Pleiades, and American Letters & Commentary.

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Alan Keenan

Alan Keenan is the Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies and a visiting assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of Democracy in Question..

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Jacob Edmond

Jacob Edmond teaches modern and contemporary poetry at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

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William F. Schulz

William F. Schulz is the executive director of Amnesty International USA and the author, most recently, of Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights.

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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (1922—2010), author of A People’s History of the United States, was a historian and playwright.

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Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer Gordon is the founder and former executive director of the Workplace Project, on Long Island, and an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law. Portions of this article are adapted from her book Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights, published earlier this year by Harvard University Press.

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Jacqueline Bhabha

Jacqueline Bhabha is the executive director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies and a lecturer at Harvard Law School.

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M.K. Chakrabarti

M.K. Chakrabarti is a producer of the public-radio news and talk program On Point.

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Robert D. Manning

Robert D. Manning is a professor of finance at Rocheste rInstitute of Technology and the author of Credit Card Nation and the forthcoming Give Yourself Credit. His Web site is https://www.creditcardnation.com.

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Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein is senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nopartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., that researches the economy’s effect on the working class.

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Tamara Draut

Tamara Draut is the director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos, a national think tank.

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A. Mechele Dickerson

A. Mechele Dickerson is a professor at the University of Texas Law School.

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Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins is the co-founder and associate director of United for a Fair Economy. He is the author of several books about economic inequality, including Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity.

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David Crockett

David Crockett is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business.

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Stephen Brobeck

Stephen Brobeck is the executive director of the Consumer Federation of America.

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Jonathan Gruber

Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the director of the NBER's Program on Children.