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Sara Joy Márquez

Originally from Wisconsin, Sara Joy Márquez is a writer, worker, and community activist. She holds a BA in English and Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Impakter Magazine, The Grief Diaries, The Mississippi Review, and Amazon’s Day One journal.

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Elizabeth Catte

Elizabeth Catte is a writer and public historian based in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. She is the author of Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia and What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia.

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Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His latest book is Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy.

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Sarah Bruni

Sarah Bruni is the author of the novel The Night Gwen Stacy Died, and her translations have appeared in the Buenos Aires Review. 

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Claire Schwartz

Claire Schwartz is culture editor of Jewish Currents. She received a PhD in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale.

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Jesse Nathan

Jesse Nathan's poems appear in the American Poetry ReviewjubilatDIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.

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Kristin Bumiller

Kristin Bumiller is George Daniel Olds Professor in Economic and Social Institutions at Amherst College and author of In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence.

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Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Locus, and Crawford Awards, and was on Time's list of the ten best novels of 2016.

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Safia Jama

Safia Jama is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, born to a Somali father and an Irish-American mother in Queens, New York. Her manuscript was a semi-finalist in the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry.

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Sam Rosenfeld

Sam Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. His latest book, coauthored with Daniel Schlozman, is The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.

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Rob Crawford

Rob Crawford is a founding editor of the poetry journal Prelude, and his poems can be found in Nat. Brut, Flag+Void, Foundry Journal, Pith, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Reality Beach, ’Pider, Ladowich, Powder Keg, Golden Handcuffs Review, White Wall Review, Quiet Lunch and others.

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Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson is the award-winning author of several novels and short story collections, including Brown Girl in the Ring, Sister Mine, and Skin Folk. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside.

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Aslı Ü. Bâli

Aslı Ü. Bâli is Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

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Marty Cain

Marty Cain is pursuing a PhD in English Language & Literature at Cornell University. His writing has appeared in journals such as Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, Action Yes, Dreginald, The Pinch, Gigantic Sequins, Deluge, and elsewhere. His first book, Kids of the Black Hole, was selected by Megan Kaminski as a finalist for the Bob Kaufman Prize, and was published by Trembling Pillow Press in 2017.

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John Burnside

John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone, winner of both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, was published in the United States by Graywolf. He teaches American poetry and creative writing at the University of St Andrews. 

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Liz Bowen

Liz Bowen is a writer, scholar, and editor living in New York City. She is a doctoral student in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Her first poetry collection Sugarblood was published by Metatron Press in 2017, and her poetry and essays have been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies.

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Lynn Schmeidler

Lynn Schmeidler’s poems have appeared in The Awl, Barrow Street, and The Los Angeles Review, and are forthcoming in Transition: Poems in the Aftermath (Indolent Books) and Nasty Women’s Poetry Anthology (Lost Horse Press). Her chapbooks Curiouser & Curiouser and Wrack Lines can be found at Grayson Books. Her full-length collection, History of Gone is forthcoming from Veliz Books.  

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Clara Hendrickson

Clara Hendrickson researches and writes on topics related to the political economy, welfare, identity politics, and labor.

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Mark Muro

Mark Muro, a senior fellow and the director of policy at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, leads the program’s advanced and inclusive economy activities. Mark is an expert on regional technology ecosystems and economic development and has published extensively on manufacturing, digital trends, energy issues, and regional industry clusters.

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Mackenzie Kozak

Mackenzie Kozak holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MFA from UNC-Greensboro. She lives in Asheville, NC where she admires mountains and grocery stores. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, jubilat, Prelude, Sixth Finch, and Thrush Poetry Journal. Find her online at mackenziekozak.com

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Miguel Syjuco

Miguel Syjuco, author of the novel Ilustrado, is a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times and a professor at New York University in Abu Dhabi.

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Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in The Nation, Brick, American Poetry Review, Witness, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015)  and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (2019) from Bloof Books. She is also the author of an artist book called “Operation USA” through the Baltimore-based book arts group Container, a project acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. Her third collection, Waterbaby, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2021.

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Mark Nowak

Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut DownCoal Mountain Elementary, and Social Poetics, all from Coffee House Press. A revised and expanded edition of writings from the Attica poetry workshops of Celes Tisdale (1972–74) includes his introduction. A native of Buffalo, Nowak is the founding director of the Worker Writers School.

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Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is author of numerous books including Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press, 2012), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013) and The Death of a Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (University of California Press, 2016).

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