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Maeve Barry is a writer in New York. You can find more of her stories at maeve-barry.com.

Hannah Bonner’s criticism has appeared in Cleveland Review of Books, Literary Hub, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her first collection of poetry, Another Woman, is forthcoming in 2024. She lives in Iowa.

Jacky Grey is a writer and architect. Grey earned their MFA in creative nonfiction from Pacific University. They were a participant of the Anaphora Arts Emerging Critics Program in 2023. They live in Western Oregon with their partner, daughter, and dog.

Richie Hofmann is the author of two collections of poems, Second Empire and A Hundred Lovers.

Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections, and the novel The Vexations, named one of the ten best books of the year by the Wall Street Journal. Her stories and essays appear in the New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her family.

Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar and the forthcoming collection My Infinity. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University.

Kanak Kapur’s fiction has been published in The Rumpus, CodeLit, and Black Warrior Review. She is currently based in Nashville.

Carrie R. Moore’s fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, Virginia Quarterly Review, For Harriet, the Southern Review, and other publications. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Community of Writers, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.

Lorrie Moore is the author of the novel I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home as well as See What Can Be Done, a collection of thirty-five years of nonfiction. She teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Shannon Pratson is a writer and artist. She holds an MFA from Virginia Tech and lives in London.

Joy Priest is a poet and scholar from Louisville, Kentucky. She is the author of HORSEPOWER and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology. She is currently an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diaspora Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Curator of Community Programs & Practice at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.

Michael Robbins is the author of Walkman, Alien vs. Predator, and other books.

Buku Sarkar is a photographer and writer who has grown up between Calcutta and New York. Her writing and her photographs have appeared in various magazines and journals including the New York Review of Books, N+1, and the Threepenny Review.

Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Unshuttered and Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is the most recent recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, and she teaches at Princeton University.

John Jeremiah Sullivan is a writer who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Prime Minister of Paradise, his book about an eighteenth-century Utopian philosopher who lived among the indigenous Cherokee in present-day Tennessee, is forthcoming from Random House.

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