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    Carmen Boullosa

    Carmen Boullosa is the author of nineteen novels including The Book of Eve, Texas: The Great Theft, and Before, as well as collections of poetry, plays, and…

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    Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

    Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Emmy Award–winning writer, playwright, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY), where she created a course on literature, race,…

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    Hamilton Cain

    Hamilton Cain is a former Contributing Books Editor at Oprah Daily and a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He reviews fiction and nonfiction for The New…

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    Nancy Naomi Carlson

    Nancy Naomi Carlson is a translator who won the 2022 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and was decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms. She serves…

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    Victoria Chang

    Victoria Chang is the author of several books of poetry, including With My Back to the World and The Trees Witness Everything, the nonfiction book Dear Memory:…

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    Angie Cruz

    Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her most recent novel, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (2022), was a finalist for the 2024…

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    Alia Dastagir

    Alia Dastagir is an award-winning journalist and former reporter for USA Today. Her work focuses on gender and mental health. Dastagir was one of eight U.S. recipients…

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    Fanta Diallo

    Fanta Diallo is a Senior Publicist at W.W. Norton & Company, where she develops and leads national publicity campaigns for a wide range of fiction and nonfiction…

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    Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of dozens of books, most recently Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and…

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    Dread Scott

    Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose art encourages viewers to re-examine ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork and President Bush…

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    E. Madison Shimoda

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    Eddie Glaude

    Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. One of the nation’s most prominent scholars,…

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    Álvaro Enrigue

    Álvaro Enrigue was a Cullman Center Fellow and a Fellow at the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. He has taught at New York University, Princeton…

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    Michael Eskin

    Michael Eskin is an author, critic, translator, philosopher, publisher, and cofounder of Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., in New York City. He has taught at Cambridge and…

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    Esperanza Hope Snyder

    Esperanza Hope Snyder is a writer born in Colombia. She is the author of the poetry collection Esperanza and Hope, two plays, The Back Room and Lullaby…

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    Huda Fahmy

    Huda Fahmy is a cartoonist known for her internationally successful webcomic Yes, I’m Hot in This and the Huda F graphic novel series. She is a National…

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