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Nick Bromell

Nick Bromell is a former editor of Boston Review. He is now a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of Tomorrow Never Knows and By the Sweat of the Brow. His most recent book is The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy.

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Khaled Abou El Fadl

Khaled Abou El Fadl is Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law at UCLA and a 2005 Carnegie Scholar. He is author of The Great Theft: Wresting Islam from the Extremists and the Boston Review book The Place of Tolerance in Islam.

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Benjamin A. Olken

Benjamin A. Olken is Professor of Economics and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT.

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Tiphanie Yanique

Tiphanie Yanique is the fiction editor of Gulf Coast and a contributing review editor of Calabash

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David Clingingsmith

David Clingingsmith is a Ph.D candidate in econmoics at Harvard University.

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Jefferson Decker

Jefferson Decker, a former managing editor of Boston Review, is assistant professor of American Studies at Rutgers Univeristy.

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Ben-Zion Gold

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold (1923–2016) was director of Harvard Hillel. Born in Poland, and the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he wrote The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust.

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H.L. Hix

H.L. Hix is author Lines of Inquiry, First Fire, then Birds, Chromatic, and other books.

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Michael Robins

Michael Robins is author of The Next Settlement, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize.

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Allen Grossman

Allen Grossman's many books of poetry include The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected, 1979-1991, The Philosopher's Widow, How to Do Things With Tears, and Sweet Youth.

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Carrie Bennett

Carrie Bennett's first book of poetry, Biograhy of Water, won the 2004 Washington Prize. She teaches at Boston University.

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Nick Twemlow

Nick Twemlow's poems have appeared in A Public Space, Court Green, Fence, Sentence, and Volt. He is co-editor of The Canary.

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Marc B. Haefele

Marc B. Haefele has been covering California state and local politics for 25 years for publications that include the LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. He writes a column for the weekly Los Angeles Alternative.

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Stephen Glain

Stephen Glain is a contributing editor to Newsweek International and the author of Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World.

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Kate Hall

Kate Hall lives in Montreal, where she co-edits Delirium Press chapbooks. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and jubilat.

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Hank Lazer

Hank Lazer is the author of 12 books of poetry, most recently Elegies & Vacations and The New Spirit. He is the associate provost of the University of Alabama.

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Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin is the author of World's Tallest Disaster, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, and the forthcoming Oracle

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Carey McHugh

Carey McHugh teaches writing at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Smartish Pace, and Spinning Jenny.

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Fredrick Farryl Goodwin

Frederick Farryl Goodwin's work has appeared in Harvard Review, The Gig's Synopticon, Margie, and Paris Transatlantic. He lives in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

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Clayton Eshleman

Clayton Eshleman is translator and editor of the forthcoming The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. He is also the author, most recently, of My Devotion and the forthcoming An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire.

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César Vallejo

César Vallejo (1892–1938) was a Peruvian poet. His books include The Black Heralds, Trilce, the poshumous Human Poems, and the novel Tugsteno. Active in Marxist politics and the antifascist campaign in Spain, he died in poverty in Paris.

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Rebecca Saxe

Rebecca Saxe is the John W. Jarve Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT.

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Jeremy Valentine Freeman

Jeremy Valentine Freeman studied comparative religion and radical poetics at Goddard College. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

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Ruth Levine

Ruth Levine, a development economist, is director of the Hewlett Foundation's Global Development and Population Program.

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