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Kristi Maxwell

Kristi Maxwell is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville. Her five books include Realm Sixty-four and Hush Sessions, and she has new work forthcoming in Bennington Review and Black Warrior Review.

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Engin Önder

Engin Önder is a Turkish journalist. He started the Twitter-account 140journos, which has evolved into a channel of politically engaged criticism. He also is the founder of the Institute for Creative Minds, an interdisciplinary collective from Istanbul that aims to reform civil society through art, design and social innovation.

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Brandon M. Terry

Brandon M. Terry is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and author of Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement.

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China Miéville

China Miéville is founding editor of Salvage. His fiction, including The City & the City and Embassytown, has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His latest book is The Book of Elsewhere.

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Greg Koehler

Greg Koehler is a writer, ethicist, and agricultural worker from Austin, Texas.

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Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is the author of five books, most recently I’m So Fine. She serves as core faculty in poetry and playwriting for the new Mile-High MFA in creative writing at Regis University.

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Georg Diez

Georg Diez is a writer and columnist at Der Spiegel. He is the founder of the writer's collective, 60pages.

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Felicia Wong

Felicia Wong is the President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute.

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Nicholas Goodly

Nicholas Goodly is a recipient of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A Cave Canem Fellow, Nicholas received a Teaching Fellowship from Columbia University and was a finalist in the 2017 Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest and a finalist in the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize. Nicholas is the writing editor of WUSSY Magazine and currently lives in Atlanta.

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Jordy Rosenberg

Jordy Rosenberg is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Confessions of the Fox.

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Celina Su

Celina Su is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, n+1, and elsewhere.

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Patrick James Errington

Patrick James Errington's poetry has appeared in The Iowa ReviewCopper NickelPassages NorthHorsethief, Best New Poets 2016, and won both The London Magazine and the Wigtown Poetry Competitions. He has a chapbook forthcoming from ignition press in 2018.

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Mark Bray

Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe who was one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and author of Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street.

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Lindsay R. Taylor

Lindsay R. Taylor works in futures and emerging technologies. She writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories, and is currently writing two novels.  

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Michael Whinston

Michael D. Whinston is the Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at MIT.

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Mike Jeffrey

Mike Jeffrey studied literature at Boston University and received an MFA from Lesley University. He works as a bookseller in New York. 

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Kristen Gleason

Kristen Gleason is from California. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, A Public Space, The White Review, and elsewhere.

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Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is the author of several novels, short story collections, and a civil rights memoir. She teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

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Matthew King

Matthew King’s nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, LARBElectric LiteratureThe Millions3:AM MagazineQuartzUSA TodayThe Daily Dot, and other publications. He graduated from NYU’s Stern School of Business and is pursuing an MFA in nonfiction writing at Emerson College.

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Naseemah Mohamed

Naseemah Mohamed is a Zimbabwean Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar, currently pursuing a PhD at Oxford University in International Education Policy. Her research primarily focuses on education and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2014 she served as a Fellowships tutor in Adams House at Harvard University, where she aided students applying for post-graduate fellowships, including the Rhodes, Marshall and Commonwealth scholarships. She also co-founded the Center for African Cultural Excellence and its flagship program, Writivism, which helps emerging African writers through a mentorship program with established writers, and hosts annual writing workshops for young writers across the continent. 

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Bryan Washington

Bryan Washington is a writer from Houston. His first collection of stories, Lot, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books.

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Chloe Forsell

Chloe Forsell is a biracial American poet residing in Buffalo, NY. A Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets June Fellow, she recently completed her undergraduate degree at SUNY Geneseo.

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Mehrsa Baradaran

Mehrsa Baradaran is J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. Her books include How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.

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Calista McRae

Calista McRae is an assistant professor in the Humanities department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, author of Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America, and coeditor of The Selected Letters of John Berryman.

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