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

Chase Culler is a writing teacher and bookseller in Boston. He's held fellowship positions with his two writing mentors Allan Gurganus and Clyde Edgerton. His work appears in Joyland.

Born in rural Tennessee in 1939, William Gay began writing at age fifteen and wrote his first novel at age twenty-five, but didn't begin publishing until well into his fifties. He worked as a TV salesman, in local factories, did construction, hung sheetrock, and painted houses to support himself. His works include The Long Home, Provinces of Night, Fugitives of the Heart, Stoneburner, The Lost Country, and four collections of short stories. His work has twice been adapted for the screen. He died in 2012.

Urvi Kumbhat is a writer from Calcutta. She is currently a PhD student in English at Princeton University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Protean Mag, and elsewhere.

Jami Nakamura Lin is the author of the illustrated speculative memoir The Night Parade (Mariner Books/HarperCollins), a Vulture/New York Magazine Top Ten Memoir of 2023. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Passages North, and many other publications.

Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso, Texas, to Mexican immigrants. His work has appeared in Poetry, the Boston Review, the Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, won the 2024 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press.

Caitlin McCormick is a writer who lives in New York by way of Arizona. Her work has been supported by the Kenyon Review, the University of Iowa, Fractured Lit Magazine, and the Axinn Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Joyland.

Lily Meyer is a translator, critic, and the author of the novel Short War. A contributing writer at the Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso's story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her novel The End of Romance is forthcoming from Viking.

Matthew Nienow is the author of House of Water and If Nothing, both from Alice James Books. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Missouri Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife and two sons, where he works as a mental health counselor.

Mary Jo Salter is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Zoom Rooms (2022) and The Surveyors (2017).

Jasmin Sandelson is the author of My Girls: The Power of Friendships in a Poor Neighborhood (University of California Press 2023). Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Rumpus, the Georgia Review, Longreads, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.

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.

Brandon Taylor is the author of two novels, The Late Americans and Real Life, and Filthy Animals, a collection of short stories.

In addition to bartending, Whitney Weiss has picked tobacco, run sound for a Paris cabaret, played banjo in a punk band, harvested grapes, DJed around the world, and worn a raccoon suit to sell chairs. Raised in the South, they came of age in Buenos Aires before relocating to Europe a decade ago. She is currently working on a novel about Italian pastry, factually inaccurate gays, and immigration.

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