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Alyssa Moore

Alyssa Moore is a poet and at times a dancer. She is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli is a novelist, essayist, and Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. Her books include Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

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Benjamin H. Friedman

Benjamin H. Friedman is a Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies at the Cato Institute.

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Christopher Ankney

Christopher Ankney’s first collection, Hearsay, won the 2014 Jean Feldman Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Fourteen Hills, Hunger Mountain, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly, amongst other fine journals.

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Linda Besner

Linda Besner’s first book of poetry, The Id Kid was named one of the National Post’s Best Poetry Books of the Year. Her poetry and journalism have appeared in journals in Canada, the US, and the UK. Her second collection, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds, is forthcoming with Coach House Books in Spring 2017. She lives in Montreal.

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Ryan Patrick Smith

Ryan Patrick Smith received his BA in English from Transylvania University and MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. His poetry was runner-up in the 2015 Boston Review Poetry Contest and semi-finalist in the 2015 92Y “Discovery” Poetry Contest, and his poems appear or are forthcoming in the Kenyon ReviewDIAGRAM, and Salt Hill, among others. He is a native of Kentucky, and he teaches in the MFA program at Lindenwood University.

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Peter Ross

Peter Ross is author of Daunderlust and The Passion Of Harry Bingo. He is a freelance journalist and lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth is the author of several books including the novel Beast and the essay collection Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist, both of which will be published in the US by Graywolf Press in August. His debut novel The Wake was longlisted for the Booker and won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. He lives in the west of Ireland.

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Dani Couture

Dani Couture’s most recent collection of poetry is Yaw (Mansfield Press). Her chapbook Black Sea Nettle is out with Anstruther Press.

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Alejandra Marchevsky

Alejandra Marchevsky is Professor of Liberal Studies and Women’s, Gender Studies, and Sexuality Studies at Cal State LA, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA).

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Alan A. Aja

Alan A. Aja is Acting Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies at Brooklyn College (CUNY).

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Lauren Camp

Lauren Camp is the author of three books, most recently One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), winner of the Dorset Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry International, North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. Other literary honors include the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and prizes from RHINOand Western Humanities Review. She is a Black Earth Institute Fellow and the producer/host of “Audio Saucepan” on Santa Fe Public Radio. Her website is www.laurencamp.com.

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Brian Simoneau

Brian Simoneau is the author of River Bound (C&R Press, 2014). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, RHINO, Southern Indiana Review, and other journals. He lives in Connecticut with his family.

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Michael Frank

Michael Frank's memoir, The Mighty Franks, will be published in May by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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David Welch

David Welch has poems recently published or forthcoming in MemoriousTypo, and Volt. He lives in Chicago.

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Andrew Stark

Andrew Stark is a professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto and author of The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death (Yale University Press, 2016)

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Brandon Courtney

Brandon Courtney is a veteran of the United States Navy, and the author of The Grief Muscles and Rooms for Rent in the Burning City, as well as of the chapbooks Inadequate Grave and Improvised Devices. Another full-length collection is forthcoming from Yes Yes Books. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Tin House, Guernica, Memorious, The Progressive, and American Literary Review.

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Corey Miller

Corey Miller has an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and was a Philip Roth Resident at the Stadler Center. Other work has appeared in Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online and elsewhere.

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Liv Stratman

Liv Stratman is a writer from New York. Her short stories and reviews have appeared in The Cincinnati ReviewCutbank, and Witness. She teaches at the New York City College of Technology and is currently at work on a novel.

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E. J. Koh

E.J. Koh is the recipient of the 2016 Pleiades Press Editors Prize for her forthcoming​ collection of poems A Lesser Love. Her poems​ and translations​ have appeared in World Literature Today, TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, Columbia Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Kundiman, The MacDowell Colony, Napa Valley Writers’​ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Jack Straw Writers Program. She lives in Seattle.

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Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is Associate Professor of American Culture and Arab and Muslim American Studies at the University of Michigan and author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States.

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Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY and author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.

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Lisa Stampnitzky

Lisa Stampnitzky is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield and the author of Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented Terrorism.

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Tarek Z. Ismail

Tarek Z. Ismail is Senior Staff Attorney at the CLEAR Project at CUNY School of Law.

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