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Bret Shepard

Bret Shepard directs the creative writing program at the University of Idaho and co-edits Dikembe Press. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review and Copper Nickel.

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Allyson Paty

Allyson Paty is author of the chapbook The Further Away and a founding editor of Singing Saw Press.

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John Mullen

John Mullen’s work also appears this month in Ploughshares. He holds an MFA from Columbia University.

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David Tomas Martinez

David Tomas Martinez is the author of Hustle, winner of the New England Book Festival's poetry prize, The Devil's Kitchen Readers Award, and honorable mention in the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral Prize. Martinez lives in Brooklyn and teaches poetry at Columbia University. 

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Aaron Coleman

Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and the chapbook St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow, Aaron’s poems have appeared in journals including Boston ReviewFENCE, and New York Times Magazine. Aaron is currently a PhD student at Washington University St. Louis in the Comparative Literature Program.

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Olivia Clare

Olivia Clare received a 2014 O. Henry Prize. She is author of The 26-Hour Day, a book of poems.

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Nick Brommel

Nick Brommel, a founding editor of Boston Review, is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of The Time Is Always Now.

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Alisa Reznick

Alisa Reznick is a freelance writer and photographer based in Amman, Jordan. Her work appears at The Seattle Times, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere.

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Melvin Rogers

Melvin Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy.

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Ayanda Manqoyi

Ayanda Manqoyi is a PhD student in anthropology at UC Davis.

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Vito Laterza

Vito Laterza is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder.

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Julian Bourg

Julian Bourg is Professor of History at Boston College and author of From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought.

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Jonathan White

Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics. His latest book is In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea.

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Erik Loomis

Erik Loomis is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. His books include Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests and A History of America in Ten Strikes.

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Joseph Margulies

Joseph Margulies is Professor of the Practice of Law and Government at Cornell University. He was counsel of record in Rasul v. Bush (2004) involving detentions at Guantánamo Bay. His books include Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power and What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity.

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Thomas Healy

Thomas Healy is Professor of Law and Seton Hall Law School and author of The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind—and Changed the History of Free Speech in America.

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erica lewis

erica lewis is author, with artist Mark Stephen Finein, of the precipice of jupiter and camera obscura.

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist. Her most recent collection of poetry, Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books), was published in 2015. Griffiths teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B. Williams is the author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and winner of a 2017 Whiting Award. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing at Bennington College. 

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Jonathan Galassi

Jonathan Galassi is President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. "Agave" appears in Liveright's The Complete Works of Primo Levi.

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Primo Levi

Primo Levi (1919–1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor, and prolific author of nonfiction, short stories, and poems.

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Michael Javen Fortner

Michael Javen Fortner is Associate Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment.

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Marshall Steinbaum

Marshall Steinbaum is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at the Jain Family Institute.

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Corey Van Landingham

Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and The Southern Review, among many other places. She lives in Cheviot, Ohio, and is a Book Review Editor for Kenyon Review.

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