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Ryan Thoreson

Ryan Thoreson is a Rhodes scholar completing a doctorate at Oxford’s Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. His work has appeared in The Advocate,Mother Jones, the Gaurdian, andThe Nation.

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Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His recent books include Islamic Liberation Theology and Post-Orientalism.

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James Wallenstein

James Wallenstein is author of a novel, The Arriviste. His work has appeared in GQ, The Believer, Jacket, The Hudson Review, and The Antioch Review. 

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Taryn Bowe

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Vestal McIntyre

Vestal McIntyre is author of the novel Lake Overturn and the story collection You Are Not the One.

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Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin is the author of nine collections of poetry, including A Passion According to Green (2017), American Urn (Selected Poems 1987-2014), Tall If (2008), and Bright Hunger (2004). His collection of essays, Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry, appeared in 2017. He is a professor in the Creative Writing & Literature Program at the University of Southern California.

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William Wadsworth

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Alice Jones

Alice Jones’s most recent books are Gorgeous Mourning and Plunge, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her awards include ones from the Poetry Society of America, the First Annual Poetry Prize from Narrative Magazine, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the NEA. She is a co-editor of Apogee Press.

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Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson’s first book of poetry, How to Catch a Falling Knife, is due this May. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Christopher Kondrich

Christopher Kondrich is author of Contrapuntal and Editor in Chief of Tupelo Quarterly.

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William Varner

William Varner is author of The Log of Spiritual Misdemeanors.

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Zach Savich

Zach Savich’s first book of poems, Full Catastrophe Living, won the 2008 Iowa Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and Best New Poets 2008.

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Mara Pastor

Mara Pastor has published three books of poetry. Her works have appeared in many literary journals, anthologies, and magazines in Puerto Rico and elsewhere.

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Clay Risen

Clay Risen is an editor at the New York Times and author of A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and elsewhere.

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Craig Morgan Teicher

Craig Morgan Teicher, a vice president of the National Book Critics Circle, is author, most recently, of Ambivalence and Other Connundrums.

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Nasser Hussain

Nasser Hussain (1965–2015) was Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College and author of The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law.

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Adam Sturtevant

Adam Sturtevant’s fiction has appeared in decomP, Two Hawks Quarterly, Santa Fe Writers Project, and Evening Street Review.

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Luis Fernando Medina

Luis Fernando Medina is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and author of A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change.

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Catie Rosemurgy

Catie Rosemurgy is author of two poetry collections, The Stranger Manual and My Favorite Apocalypse.

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Sarah Blake

Sarah Blake’s poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, and FIELD.

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Casey Walker

Casey Walker is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Princeton University.

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Sandra Simonds

Sandra Simonds is the author of eight books of poetry and one novel, Assia, based on the life of Assia Wevill (Noemi Press, 2023). She is currently at Bennington College in Vermont. Her poems and criticism have been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Best American Poetry, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, the Chicago Review, Granta, Ploughshares, Fence, Court Green, and Lana Turner.

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Sarah V. Schweig

Sarah V. Schweig’s poems have appeared in Western Humanities Review and Verse Daily. Her chapbook, S, is available through Dancing Girl Press.