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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.
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.
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)
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.