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Micki McElya

Micki McElya is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

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José Felipe Alvergue

José Felipe Alvergue is the author of gist : rift : drift : bloom (2015) and precis (2017). He teaches Contemporary Literature and Transnationalism and lives in Wisconsin.

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Jonathan Skinner

Jonathan Skinner founded the journal ecopoetics. His books include Chip Calls (Little Red Leaves, 2014), Birds of Tifft (BlazeVOX, 2011), Warblers (Albion, 2010), and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). He teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Warwick.

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David R. K. Adler

David Adler is a writer and researcher based in London. He received his MPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford and was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, researching the British housing crisis and the rise of “Generation Rent.” As a Fulbright Scholar at the Colegio de México in Mexico City, he conducted research on self-help housing and the pursuit of Mexico’s constitutional right to “decent housing.” His current work focuses on the political economy of urban development. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Jacobin, and Current Affairs.  

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is professor emerita of anthropology at UC Berkeley. She is the author of several controversial and award-winning books, including Death Without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (UC Press), Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Ireland ( UC Press, in three editions), Commodifying Bodies (UK Sage) with Loic Wacquant, Violence in War and Peace (Wiley-Blackwell) with Philippe Bourgois, and, most recently, Violence in the Urban Margins (Oxford University Press), with P. Bourgois and J. Auyero.

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Jessie Kindig

Jessie Kindig is an editor and writer in New York City, where she works as a senior editor at Yale University Press and serves as a contributing editor to Lux Magazine.

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Sarah Sharma

Sarah Sharma is the Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. She holds her faculty appointment as Associate Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT and the Faculty of Information. Sarah is the author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics.

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Bruce Robbins

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (2012), Upward Mobility and the Common Good (2007), Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (1999), and The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (1986). His essays have appeared in n+1The NationPublic Books, and the London Review of Books. He is also the director of a documentary, Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists, available at bestfriendsfilm.com.

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Calvin TerBeek

Calvin TerBeek is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago whose work focuses on postwar movement conservatism.

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Robert L. Tsai

Robert L. Tsai is Professor of Law at American University. He is the author of America’s Forgotten Constitutions and Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation.

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Robert Crossley

Robert Crossley is the author of Imagining Mars: A Literary History. Recent essays have appeared in The Hudson Review, Southwest Review, and The Sewanee Review.  He lives in Boston.

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Stephanie Cawley

Stephanie Cawley is a poet from southern New Jersey. She has an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and works teaching writing to middle schoolers and college students. 

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Peter Myers

Peter Myers is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Prelude, Salt Hill, apt, and Sonora Review. 

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Nate Klug

Nate Klug is the author of Anyone, a book of poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), and Rude Woods, a modern translation of Virgil's Eclogues (The Song Cave, 2013). He works as a Congregationalist minister and lives in California.

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Marcella Durand

Marcella Durand’s most recent books are Rays of the Shadow (Tent Editions, 2017) and Le Jardin de M. (The Garden of M.), with French translations by Olivier Brossard (joca seria, 2016). 

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Kristin George Bagdanov

Kristin George Bagdanov is a PhD candidate in literature at U.C. Davis. Her first full-length poetry collection, Fossils in the Making, is forthcoming from Black Ocean in 2019. She is the poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine. More at: kristingeorgebagdanov.com and @KristinGeorgeB.

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Isabel Sobral Campos

Isabel Sobral Campos’ first collection of poetry is forthcoming with Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. She is the co-founder of the Sputnik & Fizzle publishing series.

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Drew Milne

Drew Milne’s collected poems In Darkest Capital were published by Carcanet in 2017. Earthworks is forthcoming from Equipage in 2018 and Third Nature from Dostoevsky Wannabe in 2019.

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Arianne True

Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) is a folky queer poet from Seattle, a teaching artist with Writers in the Schools, and a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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Adam Dickinson

Adam Dickinson’s third book, The Polymers, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His next book, Anatomic (Coach House Books), involves the results of chemical and microbial testing on his body. He teaches poetics and creative writing at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

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Tim Maudlin

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics.

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Herselman Hattingh

Herselman Hattingh lives in London and spends a lot of time pottering about in the garden. He studied philosophy and has only lately started writing fiction in a focused way.

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David Carroll

David Carroll is associate professor of media design at the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design.

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Andrew W. Kahrl

Andrew W. Kahrl is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia. His first book, The Land Was Ours, received the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians.

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