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Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan is the author of three poetry collections, Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021), Any God Will Do, and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020 and 2018); a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017); and four chapbooks, as well as coeditor (with Sarah Giragosian) of the craft anthology Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best New Poets, The Believer, and The New Republic.

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Nick Admussen

Nick Admussen is the author of three poetry chapbooks. His poetry has appeared in the Boston ReviewFence, and the Kenyon Review Online, and he has translated work by Liu Xiaobo and many others. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.

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Sumita Chakraborty

Sumita Chakraborty is Assistant Poetry Editor of AGNI. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in BOXCAR Poetry Review, White Whale Review, and Muddy River Poetry Review.

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Sara Femenella

Sara Femenella’s work is published or forthcoming in Pleiades, MiPOesias, and Milk Magazine.

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Fred Muratori

Fred Muratori is author of The Spectra, a collection of poems.

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Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson is a National Book Award–winning author and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Washington.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is founder of McSweeney’s, cofounder of the non-profit literacy project 826 Valencia, and author, most recently, of Zeitoun.

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Dean Baker

Dean Baker is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His latest book is Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer.

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Stephen Steinberg

Stephen Steinberg is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book is Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement.

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James Forman, Jr.

James Forman, Jr. is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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Nancy F. Cott

Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University, is author of Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation.

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Richard Newsom

Richard Newsom is a retired FDIC bank examiner.

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Omer Rosen

Omer Rosen is a writer and app developer based in New York. His newsletter is available at omericandream.

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Danzy Senna

Danzy Senna is author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History. Her story in this issue is excerpted from You Are Free, a collection of short stories forthcoming in May.

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Todd Edwin Jones

Todd Edwin Jones is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of What People Believe When They Say That People Believe.

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Jonathan Rowe

Jonathan Rowe was cofounder of Onthecommons.org and contributing editor to Washington Monthly. His writings have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and The American Prospect, and can be found at jonathanrowe.org.

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David Bollier

David Bollier is author of Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own and cofounder of Commons Strategies Group. He blogs at Bollier.org.

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Thomas A. Kochan

Thomas Kochan is the Co-Director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research and the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Leigh Elion

Leigh Elion is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Henry Farrell

Henry Farrell is a professor of international politics and democracy at Johns Hopkins’ Stavros Niarchos Agora Institute and School of Advanced International Affairs.

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James M. Snyder, Jr.

James M. Snyder, Jr. is Professor of Government at Harvard University and coauthor of The End of Inequality.

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Basil Katz

Basil Katz is a reporter for Reuters.

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Ana Menéndez

Ana Menéndez is author of The Last War, Loving Che, and In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Her fourth book, Adios, Happy Homeland!, is forthcoming in August.

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Michael A. Clemens

Michael A. Clemens is Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

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