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    Thomas Page McBee

    Thomas Page McBee is the author of the Lambda Award–winning debut memoir Man Alive, which was named a best book of the year by NPR Books, BuzzFeed,…

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    Eimear McBride

    Eimear McBride is the author of four novels: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, Strange Hotel, and The City Changes Its Face, as well…

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    Bill McKibben

    Bill McKibben is an author, educator, and environmentalist. He is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over…

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    Meghan Bill

    Meghan Bill is the Coordinator of Provenance Research at the Brooklyn Museum. As the Museum’s primary provenance researcher, she investigates the histories of works in the museum’s…

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    Bsrat Mezghebe

    Bsrat Mezghebe is a writer from Washington, D.C. Her debut novel, I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For, released by Liveright in February 2026, delves into…

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    Abdelgabar Mohieldin

    Abdelgabar Mohieldin is a Verbatim Reporter and Translator with the Department of the General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM) at United Nations Headquarters in New York. He…

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    Patrice Nganang

    Patrice Nganang is an American writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and activist who lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and serves as head of the Department of Africana…

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    Benedict Nguyễn

    Benedict Nguyễn is a dancer, writer, and creative producer. She appeared in the short film “Don’t F*ck with Bà” (2024, dir. Sally Tran) and has collaborated on…

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    Denne Michele Norris

    Denne Michele Norris is the editor in chief of Electric Literature, winner of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. She is the first Black, openly trans woman to…

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    Naomi Novik

    Naomi Novik is the author of the Scholomance trilogy, the novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver, and the Temeraire series. She is a founder of the Archive of…

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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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    Mónica Ojeda

    Mónica Ojeda es una escritora ecuatoriana nacida en 1988. Es autora de las novelas La desfiguración Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016), Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018)…

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    Tochi Onyebuchi

    Tochi Onyebuchi is a Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist and the author of Goliath, Riot Baby, the Beasts Made of Night series, and the War Girls…

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    Christina Orlando

    Christina Orlando (they/them) is the Senior Books Editor for Reactor, where they get to be a book nerd all day. As a freelance writer, their work has…

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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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    George Packer

    George Packer is a U.S. journalist, award-winning author, playwright, and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of ten books, including The Unwinding: An…

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