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SARAH PANLIBUTON BARNES Once a high school runaway, a sword dancer, a Mandarin translator on a trek through the Tibetan Plateau, and a student of Balinese shadow puppetry she is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Nonfiction prize. Her prose has appeared in an anthology published by the Sad Asian Girl Club, in Man Repeller, Panay News, VIDA, Catapult, and Guernica. She is working on her first novel.
RENEE CHERIE BRANUM is the author of Defenestrate (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022; Jonathan Cape UK). Renee holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Montana, and an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Truman Capote Fellow, and a recipient of the Prairie Lights Jack Leggett Fiction Prize. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in various magazines including Blackbird and The Long Story, Narrative Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly, The Texas Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Best of the Los Angeles Review anthology, and Lithub. Her essay “Certainty” was awarded the Los Angeles Review’s 2016 Fall Nonfiction award.
P CARL is the author of the memoir, Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition (Simon & Schuster, 2020). A section of the book was excerpted and featured in The New York Times Magazine. P Carl adapted the book as a play for the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard. The world Premiere took place in February 2024 at the Loeb Theatre directed by Diane Paulus with P Carl. He is the Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College in Boston and is the Anschutz Fellow at Princeton University for Spring 2020. He was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018, and the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington.
AVA CHIN is the author of Eating Wildly : Foraging for Life, Love, and the Perfect Meal (Simon and Schuster, 2014) won the 2015 M.F.K. Fischer Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and Saveur. She is the recipient of the grants and fellowships including the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. She is an associate Professor of creative nonfiction at the City University of New York. Mott Street — A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming was published by Penguin Press (April, 2023) and was named a 2024 PEN/America Open Book Award Finalist. Mott Street received the Best Non -fiction Book Award from the Chinese American Librarian’s Association, and was named a Best Book of 2023 by TIME, The San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus, Library Journal and Elle Magazine.
JAIME CORTEZ is the author of Gordo — Stories (Black Cat, Grove Atlantic, 2021). He is a writer and visual artist. His short stories, comics, and essays have been published in over a dozen anthologies, including “KinderGarde” (Small Press Traffic, 2013), “Street Art San Francisco” (Abrams Press, 2009), and the groundbreaking LGBT comics anthology “No Straight Lines” (Fantagraphics, 20122). Cortez lives near the coastal agricultural town of Watsonville, California.
ANNA COX is the author of I Keep My Worries in My Teeth (Little A 2020). Her story What Happy Couples Do appeared in Carve Magazine and won the Raymond Carver Short Story Award in 2011.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM is the author of six novels: A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (which won the PEN Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as a collection of re-imagined fairy tales, A Wild Swan and Other Tales, all published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, and Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown, a non-fiction book which was published by Random House. He is a Senior Lecturer in English, Creative Writing, at Yale University. His novel Day was published in 2023 by Random House USA (Harper Collins UK). Unsayable ,a memoir, will be published by Random House USA in July 2026.
ERIC EYRE is the author of Death In Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (Scribner, 2020). His reporting on West Virginia’s opioid crisis for the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette-Mail won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Death in Mudlick was a New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year. Edgar Award Winner Best Fact Crime, and A Lit Hub Best Book of the Year.
DANNY LORBERBAUM has an MFA from Hunter College. He has had Fellowships at both MacDowell, and the Center for Fiction. His stories have appeared in Southwest Review, Guernica, VQR and One Story. He is working on a story collection.
JULIAN LUCAS is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His writing for the magazine includes on the excavation of slave ships and reenactments of the Underground Railroad; profiles of writers and artists such as Mati Ishmael Reed; and essays on intangible heritage, art restitutions, and the exhibition of video games at museums. Previously, he was an associate editor at Cabinet. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, Art in America, and the New York Times Book Review where he was a contributing writer.
DARRAGH MCKEON is the author of the highly acclaimed All That Is Solid Melts into Air (Harper Perennial, 2014). He has worked as a theater director, and lives in Ireland. His new novel Remembrance Sunday was published by Viking UK in 2023.
ANDERS NILSEN is the artist and author of eight books including Big Questions, The End, and Poetry is Useless. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Kramer’s Ergot, Pitchfork, Medium and elsewhere. His comics have been translated into several languages , and his painting and drawing have been exhibited internationally. Nilsen’s work has received five Ignatz awards as well as the Lynd Ward Prize for the Graphic Novel and Big Questions was listed as a New York Times Notable Book in 2011. TONGUES is a retelling of the Prometheus myth in two volumes. Volume 1 was published in 2025 by Random House in the USA and Jonathan Cape in the UK. It was named one of the best comic books of 2025 by Publishers Weekly, The New York Public Library and Comics Beat. It also received two 2025 Ignatz Awards for Outstanding Comic and Outstanding Artist.
SHARON OLDS’ most recent collection Balladz (Knopf, October 2022; Jonathan Cape 2023) was shortlisted by the National Book Awards 2022. She is the recipient of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement, as well as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for her collection, Stag’s Leap. She is the author of twelve previous books of poetry all published by Knopf.. Her many award-winning books include Satan Says (1980) winner of the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. The Dead and the Living (1984) winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Father (1992) short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, The Unswept Room (2002) a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. and Stag’s Leap (Knopf, 2012). She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing program at New York University.
CLAUDIA RANKINE‘s books include Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf, 2020), Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. Her plays for the stage include HELP, which premiered in March of 2020 at The Shed, NYC, and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and is published by Graywolf Press. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. Rankine is a Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. Her most recent book Triage will be published by Graywolf in August 2026 (Penguin UK)
LAURET SAVOY is the author of Trace, Memory, History, Race and The American Landscape (Counterpoint 2015) which was a finalist for the 2016 Saroyan Prize, the Pen Open Book Award and the Wheatley Book award She is a recipient of a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and is a professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke College. She is currently writing On the River’s Back (Farrar Straus & Giroux) a memoir, exploring her family’s African American, mixed European and Indigenous heritage and its ties to the tidewater and Piedmont landscapes from the colonial era to the Civil War.
REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of more than twenty-five books, including No Straight Road Takes You There; Orwell’s Roses; Hope In the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell – The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of the climate groups Oil Change International and Third act. Her newsletter of essays and analyses can be found at meditationsinanemergency.com. The Beginning Comes After the End will be published by Haymarket Books in March 2026 and Granta UK.
KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR is the author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) which was a National Book Award semi-finalist and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. She is a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Her first book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket, 2016) won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award. She is also the editor of the anthology How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Haymarket, 2018) which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Review, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Nation, and Jacobin. She is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, and a co-founder of Hammer and Hope, a Magazine of Black politics, and culture.
OCEAN VUONG is the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also the author of the poetry collections, Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. His most recent novel The Emperor of Gladness (Penguin Press 2025) was a New York Times Bestseller and an Oprah Pick.Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its 100 Leading Global Thinkers, and by Time Magazine for 2025 TIME 100 Next, their annual list of 100 individuals who are defining the next generation of leadership., Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. His photography has been featured in the New York Times and Cultured Magazine. He currently serves as Professor in Modern Poetry and Poetics in the MFA Program at NYU.
GARY YOUNGE is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly editor-at-large at The Guardian, he has written seven books, most recently Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance (Faber, 2025). Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism and the 2025 Robert. B. Silvers Prize for Journalism, he has written for the New York Review of Books, Granta, GQ and New Statesman, among others, and made radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. His fifth book, Another Day in the Death of America, won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize from Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation.