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    Natalia Viana

    Natalia Viana is a Brazilian investigative journalist and writer. She is the co-founder and executive director of Agência Pública, Brazil’s largest investigative newsroom. At Pública, she leads…

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    Francesca Wade

    Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (2020) and Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (2025). She has held fellowships…

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    Gabriela Wiener

    Gabriela Wiener es una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea en la diáspora. Escritora, poeta y cronista peruana radicada en España, ha convertido el…

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    Katharine Wilkinson

    Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson is a bestselling climate author, teacher, and creator whom Time magazine named one of fifteen “Women Who Will Save the World.” She has…

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    Katie Yee

    Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared…

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    Lidia Yuknavitch

    Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the…

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    Marina Yuszczuk

    Marina Yuszczuk es una escritora nacida en Buenos Aires en 1978. Es autora de Lo que la gente hace (Blatt & Ríos), Madre soltera (Mansalva), La ola…

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    Kate Zambreno

    Kate Zambreno is the author of many books, most recently Animal Stories; as well as The Light Room, To Write as if Already Dead, a study of…

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    S. Dylan Zwickel

    S. Dylan Zwickel is a New York City- and London-based writer and director originally from Los Angeles. Her plays, musicals, and pilots have been finalists or semifinalists…

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