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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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    Silvia Park

    Silvia Park is the author of Luminous, which was longlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction, and longlisted…

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    Paul Collins

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    Phil Klay

    Phil Klay is a novelist and essayist. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize for…

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    Lily Philpott

    Lily Philpott is an Indigenous transracial adoptee born in Santiago, Chile and raised in New England. She has worked for close to a decade in the arts…

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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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    Sarah Ruhl

    Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her books include Smile, a memoir; 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write (a New York Times Notable…

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    Esmeralda Santiago

    Esmeralda Santiago is a Puerto Rican author who came to the United States from rural Puerto Rico at age thirteen and grew up in Brooklyn. Her experiences…

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    Svetlana Satchkova

    Svetlana Satchkova is a Russian-born journalist and novelist who immigrated to the United States in 2016. She covers culture and politics, with bylines in The Rumpus, Newsweek,…

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    Bénédicte Savoy

    Bénédicte Savoy is professor of modern art history at Technische Universität Berlin. From 2016 to 2021, she also held a chair at the Collège de France, focusing…

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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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    Betty Shamieh

    Betty Shamieh is a Palestinian American novelist and playwright. Her debut novel, Too Soon, was selected as a PEOPLE Magazine Book of the Week and an NPR…

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    Susan Shapiro

    Susan B. Shapiro is an award-winning Manhattan journalist and writing professor. She is the bestselling author/coauthor of books her family hates that have been translated into 12…

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