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Meg Freitag

Meg Freitag’s poems have appeared in Tin House and Cumberland River Review.

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Ryan Flaherty

Ryan Flaherty’s first book of poems is What’s This, Bombardier?

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Elena Fagotto

Elena Fagotto is Director of Research at the Harvard’s Transparency Policy Project.

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Adam Katzman

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Sindre Bangstad

Sindre Bangstad is a social anthropologist affiliated with the University of Oslo and author of Anders Breivik and The Rise of Islamophobia.

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of Heaven (FSG, 2015) and The Ground (FSG, 2012). He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Melcion Mateu

Melcion Mateu is the author of four books of poetry and the translator into Catalan of authors such as John Ashbery, Siri Hustvedt, and Michael Ondaatje. The poems published in the Sampler belong to Illes lligades [Tied Islands], awarded with the Premi Jocs Florals de Barcelona 2014.

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Benjamin Hollander

Benjamin Hollander's latest book is In the House Un-American (Clockroot Books).

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Lester Spence

Lester Spence is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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Katherine Stewart

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Carlo Matos

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Magdalena Edwards

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Randolph Lewis

Randolph Lewis is Professor of American Studies at UT-Austin.

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Joel Calahan

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Lisa Fink

Lisa Fink is author of the chapbook Her Disco.

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Ben Purkert

Ben Purkert’s poems appear in The New Yorker, AGNI, Fence, and The Kenyon Review.

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Chuck Tripi

Chuck Tripi, author of the collection Carlo and Sophia, is founding partner of the Paulinskill Poetry Project.

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Mike Lala

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Catherine Pond

Catherine Pond is Assistant Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute and teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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Trent Busch

Trent Busch’s poems appear in Best American Poetry, The Nation, Poetry, The American Scholar, and elsewhere.

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Margaret Reges

Margaret Reges teaches at the University of Iowa and has been a fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center and the MacDowell Colony.

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Jenny George

Jenny George’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, and Shenandoah.

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Marie Gottschalk

Marie Gottschalk is Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, and, most recently, Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America.