Contributors
rae armantrout is the current judge of the Yale Younger Poets Award. She is the author of Finalists; Conjure, a finalist for the Pen/Voelker Award; and Wobble, a finalist for the National Book Award, among other works.
eula biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had.
dalia huerta cano is a Mexican filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor with a focus on documentaries and experimental films. Her work has been selected, exhibited, and awarded at film festivals around the world.
lina maría ferreira cabeza- vanegas is the author of Don’t Come Back and Drown/Sever/Sing. A recipient of the 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, she was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and holds MFAs in Creative Nonfiction and Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.
aminatta forna is the award-winning author of the novels Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love, and Ancestor Stones, the memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, and the essay collection The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion.
garth greenwell is the author of two books of fiction, Cleanness and What Belongs to You. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he received the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
richie hofmann is the author of the poetry collections Second Empire and A Hundred Lovers.
cord jefferson is a journalist, writer, and TV producer originally from Tucson, Arizona. He has written for The Good Place, Succession, Master of None, and Watchmen, for which he won an Emmy. His journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, Bookforum, The Awl, Gawker, The Daily Beast, and various other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.
noreen khawaja is a scholar of modern thought and culture and teaches in the Religious Studies department at Yale University.
mark kraushaar is the author of The Uncertainty Principle. He lives in Wisconsin.
nami mun was raised in Seoul, South Korea and the Bronx, New York. She is the author of the novel Miles from Nowhere, shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the Asian American Literary Award, and is also the recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award and a Whiting Award. She teaches creative writing at Northwestern University.
carl phillips is the author of Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007- 2020 and the prose book My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing, among many other books.
glen retief is the author of The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood, which won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. He writes fiction, memoir, literary journalism, and personal essays, teaches creative non-fiction at Susquehanna University, and is currently spending a year in South Africa as a Fulbright Scholar.
aisha sabatini sloan is the author of the essay collections The Fluency of Light and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, thebook- length essay Borealis, and, with her father, the image and text collaboration Captioning the Archives. She teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan.
john jeremiah sullivan is a writer for The New York Times Magazine. His work appears there and in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and other publications. He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he co-founded the non-profit research initiative Third Person Project.
david trinidad is the author of the poetry collections Swinging on a Star and Digging to Wonderland: Memory Pieces. Trinidad is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College in Chicago.
josé vadi is the author of Inter State: Essays from California. An award- winning essayist, poet, playwright, and film producer, he lives and writes in Sacramento, California.
tiphanie yanique is the author of four books, including Wife, which won the Bocas Award for Caribbean Poetry and the UK’s Forward Prize. Originally from the Virgin Islands, Yanique is associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University.
cynthia zarin is the author of Two Cities, a collection of essays on Venice and Rome, and New and Selected Poems, among other works. She teaches at Yale University.
