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Rebecca Zweig

Rebecca Zweig is a poet and essayist. A recent finalist for the Mississippi Review Prize, she has held scholarships from the Juniper Institute and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in Seattle and New York.

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Don Mee Choi

Don Mee Choi is author of the National Book Award–winning DMZ Colony. She was a 2021 MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow.

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Kim Hyesoon

Kim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent contemporary poets of South Korea. Her recent poetry in translation, Autobiography of Death, won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Natalie Eilbert

Natalie Eilbert is the author of the collection Swan Feast and three chapbooks: Conversation with the Stone WifeAnd I Shall Again Be Virtuous, and The Men, The Men. She is the founding editor of The Atlas Review and TAR, a new chapbook press.

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Eleni Sikelianos

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of two hybrid memoirs, The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine, and seven books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead. She teaches at the University of Denver.

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Christopher Spaide

Christopher Spaide is a PhD student in English at Harvard.

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Tyler Curtis

Tyler Curtis is an editor for The White Review. He lives and works in New York.

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Thabisile Griffin

Originally from Chicago, Thabisile Griffin is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UCLA. Her work is on eighteenth-century black Caribbean insurrections and laughter. In addition to history, she is a campus and community organizer, a classical violinist, and a poet.

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Bridget Todd

Bridget Todd is a political activist and writer who has taught classes on social justice at Howard University. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, and The Huffington Post.

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Marcela Sulak

Marcela Sulak has published four book-length translations of poetry from the Czech, French, and Hebrew. She is the author of two collections of poetry and the co-editor of an anthology of hybrid literature.

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Ross Gay

Ross Gay’s most recent book of poems is Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.

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Lynne Procope

Lynne Procope is a Cave Canem fellow and cofounder of Union Station Magazine. Recordings of her performances can be found at Indiefeed and SpeakEasyNYC.

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Peter James Hudson

Peter James Hudson, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA, is author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean.

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Joshua Bennett

Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016) and Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. Winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Ford Foundation. His writing has been published in American Poetry ReviewThe New York Times, Poetry and elsewhere. He is currently a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton, a contributing writer at the New Yorker, and editor-at-large at Hammer and Hope. Her latest book is Race for Profit.

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Shana L. Redmond

Shana L. Redmond is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora.

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Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby is a historian, longtime activist, and author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.

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Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and author of many books, including Can You Hear Me Now and Come Hell or High Water.

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Charlene Carruthers

Charlene Carruthers is a Chicago-based black queer feminist and writer. She is the national director of Black Youth Project 100.

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Derecka Purnell

Derecka Purnell is a lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She is also a Guardian columnist.

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Stephen Zunes

Stephen Zunes is Professor of Politics and Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco.

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Amanda Boston

Amanda Boston is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University, where she studies twentieth-century African American history and politics, and the politics and culture of race in the post-civil rights era. She is writing a dissertation on the specific racial operations of gentrification in Brooklyn, New York, from 1970 to 2010.

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Benjamin Franta

Benjamin Franta is Senior Research Fellow in Climate Litigation at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.

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Kenneth W. Mack

Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.

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