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  • A person with long, wavy brown hair and a bright smile is wearing a black top against a neutral background.

    Summer Lopez

    Summer Lopez joined PEN America in 2017, and serves as the chief program officer of Free Expression Programs. Beginning in Nov 2024, she is also serving as…

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  • A person with curly hair, wearing glasses and a green top, stands in a library surrounded by bookshelves filled with various books.

    Rania Mamoun

    Rania Mamoun is a Sudanese activist and writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She completed Something Evergreen Called Life, a poetry manuscript written during COVID-19 quarantine, translated…

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    Rubén Martínez

    Rubén Martínez, is a writer, teacher, and performer. He holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University, where he serves the English,…

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    Soraya Nadia McDonald

    Soraya Nadia McDonald is an award-winning cultural critic and journalist. As senior critic for Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated), she won the George Jean Nathan prize…

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    Dinaw Mengestu

    Dinaw Mengestu is the author of four novels, Someone Like Us (Knopf 2024), All Our Names (Knopf, 2014), How To Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2007), all New York…

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    Claire Messud

    Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of…

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    Dunya Mikhail

    Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is the author of the poetry collections The War Works Hard (shortlisted for the International Griffon Poetry…

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  • A person is painting a colorful mural featuring an outstretched arm and birds. They hold a paintbrush in one hand and a paint cup in the other. The mural includes vibrant colors like blue, green, and red.

    Kabir Mokamel

    Kabir Mokamel is a visionary artist recognized internationally for his bold approach to visual storytelling. As the Co-Founder and Creative Director of ArtLords, Kabir has spent over thirty years…

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  • Daniela Naomi Molnar

    Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who works with color, water, language, and place. She creates paintings using pigments made from plants, bones, stones,…

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    Anna Nemzer

    Anna Nemzer is a journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker studying the historical memory of wars in the post-Soviet space. She is a presenter on TV Dozhd (aka…

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    Guadalupe Nettel

    Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican writer, author of award-winning novels and collections of short stories translated into more than twenty languages. In 2008 she received a PhD…

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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which…

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  • A confident woman with long brown hair stands indoors, leaning against a surface. She is wearing a cream-colored button-up shirt and a green skirt. The background is dimly lit, suggesting an office or professional setting.

    Jenny Niven

    Jenny Niven joined the Edinburgh International Book Festival in September 2023. Prior to this, she was founder and Director of the award-winning Push the Boat Out, a festival…

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    Lynn Nottage

    Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her recent work includes Floyd’s (Guthrie)…

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    Sigrid Nunez

    Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and,…

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  • A middle-aged man with gray hair and a beard is smiling gently. He is wearing a green jacket over a collared shirt. The background is blurry and appears to be outdoors.

    George Packer

    George Packer is a US journalist, award winning author, playwright and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of 10 books, including The Unwinding: An Inner…

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