Agustina Bazterrica is a writer from Buenos Aires. She has a degree in art from the University of Buenos Aires, works as a cultural administrator, and has…
Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, where they taught in Critical Theory, Rhetoric, and Comparative Literature for nearly…
Susan Choi is the author of Flashlight, her latest novel, which is currently shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is also the author of Trust Exercise, which…
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, six essay collections, seven novels, including The Blazing World and Memories of the Future, and several works…
Laila Lalami is the author of six books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.…
Dinaw Mengestu is the President of the PEN America Board of Trustees and the author of four novels, Someone Like Us (Knopf, 2024), All Our Names (Knopf,…
Rivers Solomon is a writer and lecturer. Their home is in the realm of the imaginary, where Blackness, queerness, and disability become sites of insurgency. In addition…
Bess Wohl is a playwright whose latest play, Liberation, recently completed a critically acclaimed run on Broadway. Her other plays include Barcelona (West End), Grand Horizons (Broadway,…
Charif Shanahan is the author of Trace Evidence: Poems (Tin House, 2023), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and longlisted…
Leila Aboulela is the winner of the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize, the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, and a three-time nominee for the…
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is an independent journalist who writes about the cracks in the nation-state system. An editor for Now, Voyager magazine, she has worked as an…
D.M. Aderibigbe is a poet from Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of 82nd Division (Akashic Books, 2025), winner of the National Poetry Series, and How the…
Alexis Okeowo is the author of Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama as well as A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in…
Boni B. Alvarez is a playwright who has written more than twenty plays, including Bloodletting (Playwrights’ Arena; CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre; Pork Filled Productions), America Adjacent (Skylight Theatre),…
Mitzi Angel is President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Previously, she was publisher of Faber and Faber in London. The authors she has worked with…
Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Arab-American fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel You Exist Too Much which won a 2021 Lambda Literary…
