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    Gabino Iglesias

    Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, professor, and literary critic. He is the author of House of Bone and Rain and the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker…

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    Sangamithra Iyer

    Sangamithra Iyer is an environmental planner, engineer, and writer. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant,a Café Royal Foundation Literature Grant, and the Diamonstein-Spielvogel…

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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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    Jemele Hill

    Jemele Hill is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, the co-founder of Lodge Freeway Media, and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. With a career spanning more than two…

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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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    Sarah Jeong

    Sarah Jeong is a lawyer, journalist, and author who writes for The Verge. She was previously on the editorial board of The New York Times, and has…

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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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    Molly Jong-Fast

    Molly Jong-Fast is a contributing writer at The New York Times, an MSNBC political analyst, the host of the Fast Politics podcast, and the author of the…

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    Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

    Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is the author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, which blends nature writing and memoir to challenge expectations of what is…

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    Kaitlyn Greenidge

    Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of the novels We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Algonquin Books), which was one of The New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books…

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    Sylvie Kandé

    Sylvie Kandé is the author of three collections of poetry published by Gallimard. Lagon, lagunes: Tableau de mémoire (2000) was postfaced by Édouard Glissant. La quête infinie…

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    MJ Kaufman

    MJ Kaufman is a playwright and television writer from Portland, OR/Multnomah Territory who currently lives in New York City/Lenapehoking. Their plays have been seen at The Public…

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    Daniel Kehlmann

    Daniel Kehlmann is a writer born in Munich in 1975. His novels and plays have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist…

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    Keiichiro Hirano

    Keiichiro Hirano is a Japanese author who has written more than 15 novels since his debut work Eclipse, for which he won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize at…

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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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    Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

    Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law. She was a founder and has…

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