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Joseph Chapman

Joseph Chapman's publications appear in Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, and Best American Poetry 2012. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia.

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Julie Carr

Julie Carr is the author of Mead: An Epothalamion, and Equivocal. She teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of four books of poems, most recently People on Sunday. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.


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Jane Zwart

Jane Zwart teaches writing and literature at Calvin College. Her poems have appeared in Faultline, North American Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

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Tom Thompson

Tom Thompson is author of Live Feed and The Pitch. He lives in New York City with his wife and sons.

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W. Scott Cheney

W. Scott Cheney teaches at the College of Lake County.

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Esmé-Michelle Watkins

Esmé-Michelle Watkins is an attorney in California. “Xochimilco” is her first published story.

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Jordan Davis

Jordan Davis’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Poker, and Baffling Combustions. His most recent book is From Orange to Pink.

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Martin Aitken

Martin Aitken lives and works in rural Denmark. His translations of Danish literature have appeared or are forthcoming in Calque, AGNI, Fence, The Literary Review, and PRISM International, among others.

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Dorthe Nors

Dorthe Nors is author of three novels. Her latest book is Kantslag (Karate Chop), a collection of short stories published in 2008.

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Michael Lind

Michael Lind is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow at New America. His most recent book, coauthored with Robert D. Atkinson, is Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business.

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John Stoehr

John Stoehr is Managing Editor of The Washington Spectator and a contributor to The American ProspectColumbia Journalism ReviewDissent, and The Guardian, among others.

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Amitai Etzioni

Amitai Etzioni is founder and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University and author, most recently, of New Common Ground: A New America, A New World.

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Farnoosh Fathi

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium, 2013), editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB Poets, 2018) and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York City, most recently at Stanford Online High School, Poets House, Columbia University, and the Poetry Project.

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David Luban

David Luban is University Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University.

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Nick Courtright

Nick Courtright’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. He teaches at Southwestern and St. Edward’s Universities.

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Andre Bagoo

Andre Bagoo, a journalist, lives in Trinidad.

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Meira Levinson

Meira Levinson is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University and taught for eight years in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.

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Cynthia Cruz

Cynthia Cruz’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Her first book, Ruin, was published in 2006. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School.

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Christine Hume

Christine Hume is Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University.

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John Paul Rollert

John Paul Rollert teaches at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Abbas Milani

Abbas Milani is Hamid and Christian Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979.

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Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang is author of Circle, a book of poems, and the editor of Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation.

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Rob Schlegel

Rob Schlegel’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Handsome, Octopus, Pleiades, Subtropics, and Volt. He curates the New Lakes Reading and Performance Series.

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