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    Susan Choi

    Susan Choi is the author of Flashlight, her latest novel, which is currently shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is also the author of Trust Exercise, which…

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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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    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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    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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  • A man with short curly hair, light skin, and slight stubble wears a dark green shirt and small hoop earrings, posing against a bright pink background.

    Tareq Baconi

    Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He is the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa and grew up between Amman and Beirut. His…

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    Tash Aw

    Tash Aw is the author of five novels, including, most recently, The South, and a memoir of a Chinese-Malaysian family, Strangers on a Pier, a finalist for…

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  • A woman with short light brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a dark jacket and patterned scarf, is looking at the camera against a bright pink background.

    Tess Lewis

    Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Handke, and Montaigne. She has been…

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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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    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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    Victoria Chang

    Victoria Chang is the author of several books of poetry, including With My Back to the World and The Trees Witness Everything, the nonfiction book Dear Memory:…

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  • A woman with short dark hair and black glasses, wearing a black top, smiles slightly while looking upward, posed against a solid bright blue background.

    Yiyun Li

    Yiyun Li is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, Things in Nature Merely Grow. She is the recipient of many awards,…

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  • A woman with wavy brown hair wearing a green sweater is smiling at the camera. The background is a bright lime green color.

    Zaina Arafat

    Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Arab-American fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel You Exist Too Much which won a 2021 Lambda Literary…

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