Speakers

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    Boni B. Alvarez

    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),…

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    Mitzi Angel

    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…

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    Zaina Arafat

    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…

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    Marie Arana

    Marie Arana is a Peruvian-American author of nonfiction and fiction, senior advisor to two U.S. Librarians of Congress, the inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress,…

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    Kate Aronoff

    Kate Aronoff is a Brooklyn-based staff writer at The New Republic, where she covers climate and energy politics. She is the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke…

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    Tash Aw

    Tash Aw is the author of five novels, including, most recently, The South, and a memoir of a Chinese-Malaysian family, Strangers on a Pier, a finalist for…

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    Rana Ayyub

    Rana Ayyub is an Indian investigative journalist and a Global Opinions columnist at The Washington Post. Over a nineteen-year career, she has worked as a reporter, editor,…

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    Dalia Azim

    Dalia Azim is a writer born in Canada and raised in the United States. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, American…

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    Tareq Baconi

    Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He is the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa and grew up between Amman and Beirut. His…

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    Ramzy Baroud

    Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian author, historian, and academic whose work focuses on Palestinian history, liberation, and people’s history. He is the editor of The Palestine Chronicle,…

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    Jazmina Barrera

    Jazmina Barrera is a writer born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters and in Mexico’s FONCA Program for…

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  • A woman with curly hair in a ponytail, wearing a dark top and cardigan, is facing away from the camera against a bright yellow-green background.

    Quan Barry

    Quan Barry is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry, including When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East; We Ride Upon Sticks, winner…

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    Gal Beckerman

    Gal Beckerman is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the forthcoming book How to Be a Dissident. He was formerly the magazine’s books…

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    Kyra Benjamin

    Kyra Benjamin is a translator from New York. She received a BA in Classical Studies from Hunter College with a minor in Japanese studies. As a Bluhm…

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    Carol Bensimon

    Carol Bensimon is a writer born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel O Clube dos Jardineiros de Fumaça, which won…

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    Nicholas Boggs

    Nicholas Boggs is the New York Times bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of the iconic figure in over three decades. He…

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