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Michael Lipsky

Michael Lipsky, Senior Program Director at Demos, was previously Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is author of Street Level Bureaucracy.

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Nicole D. Kazee

Nicole D. Kazee is a PhD candidate in political science at Yale University and a fellow at Demos in New York City. She was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Miller Center for Public Affairs.

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Kevin Mattson

Kevin Mattson teaches intellectual history at Ohio University and is author of Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the “Rocking, Socking” Election of 1952.

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Stephen John Stedman

Stephen John Stedman is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. His book (with Bruce Jones and Carlos Pascual) Power and Responsibility: Building Internaional Order in an Era of Transnational Threat will be published in the fall.

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Sam Ferguson

Sam Ferguson is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. Last summer, he covered the trial of Father Cristian Federico von Wernich for the Web-magazine TruthOut.

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Andrew J. Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University and former U.S. Army colonel, is chairman and cofounder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His latest book is After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed.

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Robert Perkinson

Robert Perkinson is writing a book on the history of Texas prisons. He is Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

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Stephen H. Schneider

Stephen H. Schneider (1945–2010) was Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Stanford University and Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC's working group on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, from 1997-2001.

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Michael D. Mastrandrea

Michael D. Mastrandrea is research associate at Stanford University's Center for Environmental Sciences and Policy. He contributed to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report in 2007.

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Patrick Moran

Patrick Moran is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His poems have appeared in Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, Faultline, New Laurel Review, The Louisville Review, and Margie.

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Emily Fragos

Emily Fragos is the author of Little Savage (Grove/Atlantic, 2004) and Hostage: New & Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and numerous other journals. She is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award Winner.

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Tom Bourguignon

Tom Bourguignon lives in Missoula, Montana with his wife and baby. He works as a paralegal.

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Mary Lyndon Shanley

Mary Lyndon Shanley is Margaret Stiles Halleck Professor of Political Science at Vassar College. She is author of Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents’ Rights; and Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England 1850—1895.

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Mary Fainsod Katzenstein

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein is Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. She has written on advocacy politics and institutions. For the last several years, she has been teaching college classes in Auburn Correctional Facility.

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Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze’s latest poetry collection, Compass Rose, was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.

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Margaret Monaghan

Margaret Monaghan's poems have appeared in The Iowa Review and Typo. She lives in New York City.

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Suzanne Buffam

Suzanne Buffam is author of one collection of poems, Past Imperfect, and a chapbook, Interiors. She lives in Chicago where she teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.

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Rebecca Bridge

Rebecca Bridge’s work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Red Rock Review, and Can We Have Our Ball Back.

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Brian Henry

Brian Henry is author of Static & Snow and translator of Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices.

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Aleš Šteger

Aleš Šteger is author of four poetry volumes and two books of prose. He lives and works as a writer, translator, and editor in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Thomas Hummel

Thomas Hummel’s first book, Letters & Buildings, is forthcoming from Subito Press. He lives and works in the Midwest. 

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Rebecca Porte

Rebecca Porte's reviews appear in MAYDAY Magazine and The Rumpus.

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’Annah Sobelman

’Annah Sobelman is author of The Tulip Sacrament and a recently completed second manuscript, In the Bee Latitudes. She has been living in Florence, Italy.

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Adam O. Davis

Adam O. Davis's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, The Paris Review, Pool, Raritan, Western Humanity's Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Carlsbad, CA.

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