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    Madeleine Thien

    Madeleine Thien is a writer born in Vancouver and the daughter of Malaysian Chinese immigrants to Canada. She is the author of a story collection and four…

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    Madeline Sayet

    Madeline Sayet is a Mohegan director, playwright, and scholar who believes the stories we pass down shape our collective possible futures. Her accolades include being named a…

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    Malcolm Tariq

    Malcolm Tariq is a poet, playwright, and social impact and engagement strategist from Savannah, Georgia. He is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf, 2019), winner of…

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    Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk

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    Marguerite Feitlowitz

    Marguerite Feitlowitz is a writer and translator. Her newest book-length translations are Night, by Ennio Moltedo, a collection of 113 prose poems written during and against the…

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    María Ospina

    María Ospina is Colombian writer who grew up in Bogotá and its nearby mountains. Her first book of fiction, the short story collection Azares del cuerpo, was…

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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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    Marina Yuszczuk

    Marina Yuszczuk es una escritora nacida en Buenos Aires en 1978. Es autora de Lo que la gente hace (Blatt & Ríos), Madre soltera (Mansalva), La ola…

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    Matthew Holm

    Matthew Holm is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of more than 50 books for children. He is the co-creator, with his sister Jennifer Holm,…

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    Megha Majumdar

    Megha Majumdar is the author of the novel A Guardian and a Thief, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, and…

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    Meghan O’Rourke

    Meghan O’Rourke is a poet, memoirist, and editor. She is the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022),…

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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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    Michelle Goldberg

    Michelle Goldberg is an opinion columnist at The New York Times, where she has written since 2017. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer…

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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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    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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    Mohammed Hanif

    Mohammed Hanif is a writer born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as a Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a…

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