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Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer, a MacArthur Fellow, is a composer, pianist, and writer. He is Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University.
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Sonali Chakravarti
Sonali Chakravarti is Professor of Government and director of the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life.
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K. Iver
K. Iver was born in Mississippi. They are a PhD candidate in Poetry at Florida State University. They are the Art Editor for The Southeast Review and an Assistant Poetry Editor for Narrative Magazine.
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Joseph Cassara
Joseph Cassara is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the California State University, Fresno. He is the author of the novel The House of Impossible Beauties, which received the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, two International Latino Book Awards, the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, and The Studios of Key West. He is currently working on another novel and a collection of essays.
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Shannon Ross
Shannon Ross manages The Community, a nonprofit that puts out the most widely read anti–mass incarceration publication in the Wisconsin prison system. Through its STEM from Concrete Initiative program, The Community promotes and provides STEM educational opportunities for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals.
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Craig Sullender
Craig Sullender was born in Texas, schooled in Singapore, hitchhiked across Malaysia, motorcycled through the Golden Triangle, and recuperated in a Thai hospital. His poetry has appeared in literary journals, weddings, and funerals. He designed and edited the book Helga by Richard Lance Williams.
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Nicole Hemmer
Nicole Hemmer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt and was cofounder of the Washington Post’s Made by History section. Her latest book is Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
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Joel Christensen
Joel Christensen is associate professor and chair of classical studies at Brandeis University. He also manages the popular classics website Sententiae Antiquae and tweets @sentantiq.
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Andrea L. Dennis
Andrea L. Dennis holds the John Byrd Martin Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and was formerly an assistant federal public defender.
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Erik Nielson
Erik Nielson is an associate professor of liberal arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on African American literature and hip hop culture.
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Jordan T. Camp
Jordan T. Camp is Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute at Trinity College and author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State.
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Rosalyn Pelles
Rosalyn Pelles has been a labor and freedom movement activist since the 1960s. She is currently the Vice President of Repairers of the Breach, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to build a progressive agenda and movement rooted in the moral values of justice, fairness, and the common good. She is also Senior Strategic Advisor to the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival. With over 50 years of movement experience, her work has focused work over the last few years in growing poor people’s movements. She has previously served as the Executive Director of the National Rainbow Coalition, Director of the Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Executive Director of the North Carolina NAACP, and as a senior strategist and advisor to North Carolina’s Moral Monday/Forward Together Movement. She is currently working with Jordan T. Camp on a collaborative autobiography, As Goes the South: The Life and Lessons of Roz Pelles.
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Hazem Fahmy
Hazem Fahmy is a Pushcart-nominated poet and critic from Cairo. He is currently pursuing his MA in Middle Eastern Studies and Film Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. His debut chapbook, Red//Jild//Prayer won the 2017 Diode Editions Contest. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow, his poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming in Apogee, AAWW, Mizna, and The Offing. His performances have been featured on Button Poetry and Write About Now. He is a reader for the Shade Journal, and a contributing writer to Film Inquiry.
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Amina Gautier
Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things. At-Risk was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Eric Hoffer Legacy Award. Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, and the International Latino Book Award. The Loss of All Lost Things was awarded the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, the International Latino Book Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award, and the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award. Gautier has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the Camargo Foundation, the Chateau de Lavigny, Dora Maar House/Brown Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. More than one hundred of her stories have been published, appearing in Agni, Best African American Fiction, Blackbird, Glimmer Train, Latino Book Review, Mississippi Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, and Southern Review among other places. For her body of work she has received the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
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Robert A. Aronowitz
Robert A. Aronowitz is professor and chair of the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest book is Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty.
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Peter Coviello
Peter Coviello is Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His most recent books are Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs and Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism.
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Cate Lycurgus
Cate Lycurgus’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Tin House, Orion, and elsewhere. Recently selected for Best New Poets 2019, she has also received scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and was named one of Narrative’s 30 Under 30 Featured Writers.
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Adam McGee
Adam McGee was managing editor of Boston Review from 2015 to 2022 and Arts in Society editor from 2019 to 2022. His writing and poetry have also appeared in Prairie Schooner, Electric Lit, and Cimarron Review.
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Liam Murphy
Liam Murphy teaches law and philosophy at NYU. He is the author, with Thomas Nagel, of The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (2002).
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Tef Poe
Tef Poe was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Poe is one of the co-founders of Hands Up United, founded in Ferguson after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. He was in the streets of Ferguson for more than 300 days and travelled to Geneva with Brown’s parents to testify at the United Nations. In 2017, Poe was selected as the Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow at Harvard. Every year, he teaches a class entitled, “God and Tupac,” at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver with co-instructor Dr. Jennifer S. Leath. As a hip-hop artist, Poe has performed on billings with the likes of Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, Yasin Bey (formerly Mos Def), Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Killer Mike and many more. His most recent album, “Black Julian 2” is narrated by Dr. Cornel West. Poe recently signed to Tommy Boy Records and was selected to serve as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador to the country of Jordan in 2019. Poe is currently working on his first album with Tommy Boy and finishing his memoir, Rebel to America.
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Udi Greenberg
Udi Greenberg is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His latest book is The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s–1970s.
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Gina Schouten
Gina Schouten is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She is author of Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor. She is completing a book titled The Anatomy of Justice: Liberal Egalitarianism for Liberals and Critics Alike.
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Matthew Jeffrey Vegari
Matthew Jeffrey Vegari’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Epiphany, and Zyzzyva. He is currently obtaining a postgraduate degree in Economics and Management at The London School of Economics. He is working on his first novel.
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