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Neel Mukherjee

Neel Mukherjee’s first novel, Past Continuous, was published in January 2008. He reviews fiction for The Times of London.

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Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg’s fiction has appeared in One Story, American Short Fiction, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008. Her first collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, is forthcoming.

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Barnett R. Rubin

Barnett R. Rubin is Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center on International Cooperation. His books include Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror and Blood on the Doorstep: The Politics of Preventing Violent Conflict. His writing has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books.

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Eric Posner

Eric Posner is Kirkland Ellis Professor Law at the University of Chicago. He is co-author of Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts.

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Marsha Pomerantz

Marsha Pomerantz’s poems and prose have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, Parnassus, PN Review, and Salamander.

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Mary Pinard

Mary Pinard’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, and elsewhere. She teaches at Babson College.

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Christina Mengert

Christina Mengert’s first book of poems, As We Are Sung, is forthcoming. She is co-editor of 12×12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry and Poetics.

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Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander’s most recent books include Eye Against Eye (poems), As a Friend (a novel), and A Faithful Existence (essays). He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

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Jess Sauer

Jess Sauer lives in Austin, Texas, where she works as a journalist.

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Mark Walston

Mark Walston is an award-winning author and historian whose work explores an array of cultural and historical topics.

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Xi Chuan

Xi Chuan, a poet, essayist, and translator, teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

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Shivani Manghnani

Shivani Manghnani was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. She has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and most recently, the Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil.

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Nancy MacLean

Nancy MacLean is Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her most recent publications are Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace and, with Donald Critchlow, Debating the American Conservative Movement, 1945 to the Present.

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Joanne Mariner

Joanne Mariner is Director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism program at Human Rights Watch.

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Robert Chesney

Robert Chesney is Professor of Law at Wake Forest University.

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David Cole

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University and legal correspondent for The Nation. His Most recent book is Justice At War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America’s War on Terror.

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Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda is the author of The Alps and a chapbook entitled The Inland Sea. He lives in Seattle.

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Karen Volkman

Karen Volkman, author of Crash’s Law, Spar, and Nomina, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Montana, Missoula.

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Neil Malhotra

Neil Malhotra is Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

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Yotam Margalit

Yotam Margalit is Fellow at the Program on Global Justice at Stanford University and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

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Ron Winkler

Ron Winkler, a poet, critic, and translator in Berlin, is Editor of Schwerkraft, an anthology of younger American poets.

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Joanna Klink

Joanna Klink’s most recent book of poems is Raptus. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Montana. Her new book is forthcoming in 2015.

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L.S. Asekoff

L. S. Asekoff has published two books of poetry, Dreams of a Work and North Star. He teaches in the poetry MFA Program at Brooklyn College.

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Reginald Gibbons

Reginald Gibbons's most recent collection, Creatures of a Day, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award in poetry. He teaches at Northwestern University.

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