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    Sam Sussman

    Sam Sussman is the author of the debut novel Boy From the North Country, a three-time USA Today national bestseller and finalist for the National Jewish Book…

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    Abdellah Taïa

    Abdellah Taïa is a writer born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1973. He has written many novels, including Salvation Army, which he also adapted into an award-winning film;…

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    Aatish Taseer

    Aatish Taseer is the author of the memoir Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands and the acclaimed novels The Way Things Were, a finalist…

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    Anderson Tepper

    Anderson Tepper is curator of international literature at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, where he hosts a monthly author series. He has been a guest curator of…

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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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    Elisabeth Thomas

    Elisabeth Thomas is the author of the award-nominated Catherine House. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where she still lives and writes. She graduated from Yale…

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    Judith Thurman

    Judith Thurman is a writer, biographer, and critic. She has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1987, and, since 2000, as a staff writer specializing in…

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    Jeremy Tiang

    Jeremy Tiang is a novelist and playwright, and the translator of more than thirty books from Chinese. He won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State…

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    Krisztina Tóth

    Krisztina Tóth is one of Hungary’s most accomplished and widely respected writers and an outspoken public intellectual engaged with the struggle for women’s rights and the increasing…

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    Julie Trébault

    Julie Trébault is the Executive Director of the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC). Prior to joining PEN America to create ARC, she served as director of public…

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    Samrat Upadhyay

    Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the West. He is the author of seven books of fiction that have been translated…

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    Natalia Viana

    Natalia Viana is a Brazilian investigative journalist and writer. She is the co-founder and executive director of Agência Pública, Brazil’s largest investigative newsroom. At Pública, she leads…

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    Francesca Wade

    Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (2020) and Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (2025). She has held fellowships…

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    Gabriela Wiener

    Gabriela Wiener es una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea en la diáspora. Escritora, poeta y cronista peruana radicada en España, ha convertido el…

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    Katharine Wilkinson

    Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson is a bestselling climate author, teacher, and creator whom Time magazine named one of fifteen “Women Who Will Save the World.” She has…

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    Katie Yee

    Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared…

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