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    Gigi L. Leung

    Gigi L. Leung is a writer of fiction and poetry. Her work was a finalist for the Taipei Literary Award and won a Golden Tripod Award in…

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    Gish Jen

    Gish Jen is the author of six novels, two books of stories, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe…

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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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    Ha Jin

    Ha Jin is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Born in China in 1956, Xuefei Jin (Ha Jin is his pen name) was a teenager when China entered…

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    Hafizah Geter

    Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian/U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Ohio and South Carolina. She is a 2026 Hawthornden Fellow in fiction, a…

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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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    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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    Jared Jackson

    Jared Jackson is a writer, educator, and arts administrator born in Hartford, Connecticut. He has received residencies, fellowships, and grants from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for…

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    Jarosław Kuisz

    Professor Jarosław Kuisz is an essayist writing on democracy, political culture, and the intellectual history of contemporary Europe. He is an Associate at the Oxford School of…

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    Jarrett J. Krosoczka

    Jarrett J. Krosoczka is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of more than fifty books for young readers. Over his twenty-five-year career, he has created…

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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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    Jennifer Holm

    Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling children’s author with nearly ten million books in print. She is the recipient of three…

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    Jeremy Tiang

    Jeremy Tiang is a novelist and playwright, and the translator of more than thirty books from Chinese. He won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State…

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    Joanna Pocock

    Joanna Pocock is the author of the travel memoir Surrender, which won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize. Her following book, Greyhound, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and…

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    Jonas Hassen Khemiri

    Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than…

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    Judith Butler

    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…

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