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Timothy Liu

Timothy Liu is author of eight books of poems, most recently Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse.

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Carol Muske-Dukes

Carol Muske-Dukes is author of 8 books of poems, 4 novels, 2 collections of essays (including I Married the Icepick Killer: a Poet in Hollywood) and editor of a few anthologies, including Crossing State Lines: an American Renga with Bob Holman. Her poems and novels have been NY Times Notable Books, Best American Poetry selections, Pushcart Prizes and finalists for the National Book Award & LA Times Book Award. Several of her books have recently been re-published as e-books by Open Road Media. She is professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and former Poet Laureate of California. She writes for The New York Times, and is poetry critic for the LA Times and Huffington Postwww.carolmuskedukes.com

 

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Caitlin Dube

Caitlin Dube’s poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009 and The Western Humanities Review.

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Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the Columbus College of Art & Design and author of Intaglio.

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Cynthia Arrieu-King

Cynthia Arrieu-King is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Stockton College and author of People Are Tiny in Paintings of China.

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Daniel Coudriet

Daniel Coudriet is author of Say Sand and Parade.

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Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and author of Space, in Chains and The Raising.

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Ann Marie Thornburg

Ann Marie Thornburg is an MFA student at the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review.

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Angelo Nikolopoulos

Angelo Nikolopoulos’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Awl, Boxcar Poetry Review, and Gay and Lesbian Review.

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Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts would like to use this opportunity to thank his parents.

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Ansel Elkins

Ansel Elkins’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The American Scholar, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, and The Southern Review.

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Solmaz Sharif

Solmaz Sharif holds an MFA from New York University and is former Managing Director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

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Josh Wood

Josh Wood, a freelance journalist based in Beirut, has written for The International Herald Tribune, Esquire Middle East, Executive Magazine, and a number of other publications.

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Lynn Melnick

Lynn Melnick’s poems have appeared in Paris Review, jubilat, Guernica, and LIT.

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Elisabeth Divis

Elisabeth Divis is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan and a former writer in residence at Burns Elementary School in Detroit through InsideOut Literary Arts Project.

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Noah Eli Gordon

Noah Eli Gordon, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is author of The Source, Novel Pictorial Noise, and A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow.

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Dai George

Dai George’s first collection of poetry, The Claims Office, was just published in the UK by Seren Books. He is an editor at the online journal Prac Crit.

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Pranab Bardhan

Pranab Bardhan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book is A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries.

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David Freeman Engstrom

David Freeman Engstrom is Assistant Professor at Stanford Law School.

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Avner Inbar

Avner Inbar is a PhD student in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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Megan Pugh

Megan Pugh's writing has appeared in The Believer, Callaloo, Denver Quarterly, The Oxford American, and VOLT. Her book on the cultural history of American dance is forthcoming.

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Paul Hockenos

Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer who has written about Germany and Central Europe since 1989. His latest book is Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin. His writing has also appeared in Foreign AffairsThe New York Times, and The Nation.

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Mark Schmitt

Mark Schmitt is Director of Political Reform at New America and former executive editor of The American Prospect.

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John R. Bowen

John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is author of Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves and Can Islam Be French?  His most recent book is Blaming Islam.

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