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John Feffer
John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of several books of nonfiction and fiction including Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams and Splinterlands.
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Henry A. Giroux
Henry A. Giroux holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His recent books include American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism, The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism, and America at War with Itself. He writes regularly for Truthout and serves on its board of directors.
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Joseph Vogel
Joseph Vogel is an Assistant Professor at Merrimack College. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson, James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era, and This Thing Called Life: Prince, Race, Sex, Religion, and Music.
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JR Fenn
JR Fenn has published writing in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, PANK, and Versal, among other places, and lives in western New York.
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Domenica Ruta
Domenica Ruta is the author of the memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day. Her short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Epoch, the Indiana Review, 9th Letter, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and the American Scholar. She advocates for solo moms at ESME.com. Follow her on Twitter @DomenicaMary.
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George Abraham
George Abraham is a Palestinian-American poet, activist, & PhD candidate at Harvard University. He is the author of two chapbooks: the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019) and al youm (the Atlas Review, 2017). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus, Mizna, Puerto del Sol, and Nepantla.
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, writer, and translator. She is the winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize for Arab in Newsland, and the author of Water & Salt, a book of poems from Red Hen Press published in April 2017.
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Marwa Helal
Marwa Helal is a poet and journalist. She is the author of Invasive species (Nightboat Books, January 2019) and winner of BOMB Magazine’s Biennial 2016 Poetry Contest. She can be found at marshelal.com or @marwahelal on Twitter.
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Philip Metres
Philip Metres has been written by a number of books, including Sand Opera (2015) and the forthcoming The Sound of Listening: The Poetry of Refuge and Resistance (2018). He is a professor of English and the Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.
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Gaiutra Bahadur
Gaiutra Bahadur, the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, is an associate professor of journalism and English at Rutgers University in Newark. A fellow at Harvard’s Hutchins Center in 2016-2017, and its Nieman Foundation in 2007-2008, she lives in Jersey City.
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Paul Tran
Paul Tran is poetry editor at The Offing and Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Their work appears in The New Yorker, POETRY, and elsewhere. They are the first Asian American since 1993 and first transgender poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam.
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Monica Sok
Monica Sok is the author of the chapbook Year Zero, for which she won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, NEA, and most recently a 2018–20 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
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Jake Skeets
Jake Skeets (Diné) is from the Navajo Nation. He is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. His work has appeared in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, The Blueshift Journal, Word Riot, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Cloudthroat, a journal dedicated to Native, First Nations, and Indigenous writing and art.
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Heidi Johannesen Poon
Heidi Johannesen Poon is the author of the chapbook The Good News of the Ground, for which she won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She has received fellowships from Brown University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, among others.
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Alberto Alfonso
Cuban-born Alberto Alfonso is President of Alfonso Architects, an award-winning 35-member architecture firm located in Tampa, Florida. He has exhibited his paintings in the US and Italy, and they are permanently installed in the Nielsen Media Global Technology Center, the Mission of St. Mary Chapel and Carmel Café. Alfonso received the American Institute of Architects State of Florida 2008 Design Honor Award.
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Edward Mayes
Edward Mayes’s five books of poetry include First Language (Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts Press) and Works & Days (Associated Writing Programs—AWP—Prize in Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press). He has published poems in The Southern Review, Poetry, The New Yorker, APR, and The Best American Poetry, with recent poems in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Harvard Review, Blackbird, and Crazyhorse. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina and Cortona, Italy with his wife, the writer, Frances Mayes.
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Errol Morris
Errol Morris is an award-winning filmmaker and author. His films include The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line, and Gates of Heaven.
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John Beer
John Beer is the author of Lucinda (Canarium, 2016) and The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010) and the editor of Poems 1962–1997 by Robert Lax (Wave, 2013). He lives in Portland, OR and teaches at Portland State University.
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Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of Starshine & Clay (2017) and She Has a Name (2013), both published by Four Way Books. She teaches creative writing at Agnes Scott College and lives in Decatur, GA.
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Jordan Joy Hewson
Jordan Joy Hewson is from Dublin, Ireland and has recently published work in A Public Space.
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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley borderlands to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series, 2017), winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters, and featured as a Best of 2017 book at The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, BOMB, Literary Hub, and Entropy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Boston Review, The Academy of American Poets, Buzzfeed, Epiphany, PBS Newshour and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo Fellow, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. She can be found at www.vanessaangelicavillarreal.com.
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Sylvia Ryerson
Sylvia Ryerson is an independent journalist and incoming PhD student in American Studies at Yale University. She worked as a reporter in Letcher County, Kentucky, for five years, covering the regional prison system, and led the production of Calls from Home, a nationally recognized radio program broadcasting phone messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated in rural Appalachia.
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