Featured Contributors
- Featured Contributors
George Butler is an award-winning artist and illustrator. His drawings, done in situ, are in pen, ink, and watercolor. In August 2012 George walked from Turkey across the border into Syria, where as guest of the rebel Free Syrian Army he drew the civil war–damaged, small and empty town of Azaz. Six months later he made a similar trip back to Syria to record the stories of refugees in the field hospitals and escaping the conflict. His drawings have been published by the Times (London), the New York Times, the Guardian, BBC, CNN, Der Spiegel, ARD, and NPR.
Laura Kasinof is a freelance journalist and author of the memoir Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen (Arcade, 2014), about reporting for the New York Times during the Arab Spring. She has also written for Harper's, the Atlantic, Newsweek, and Foreign Policy.
Diàna Markosian is a photographer whose images explore the relationship between memory and place. Born in the former Soviet Union, her family immigrated to the United States when she was a child. She holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, and the New York Times.
Ben Mauk lives in Berlin. His work appears in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, Granta, and many other publications. His reportage on asylum issues is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. [End Page 5]
Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, the American Poetry Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf will be published by Alice James in September 2017; he is also the author of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry, 2017). The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and is a visiting professor of poetry in the Purdue University MFA program.
Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Each fall, she serves as writer in residence in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University.
Richard Blanco was the fifth poet in history to read at the inauguration of an American President, and is the author of three poetry collections, including Looking for The Gulf Motel (University of Pittsburgh, 2012); and two memoirs: The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood (Ecco, 2014) and For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey (Beacon Press, 2013). Blanco's awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, the PEN Beyond Margins Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and several honorary doctorates. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and the Education Ambassador for the Academy of American Poets.
Ryan Bradley is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Popular Science, the MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker (online), the Awl, the New York Times Magazine, and Fortune, where he was a senior editor.
Damon Casarez's images have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, WIRED Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and Variety. In 2016, he was named one of PDN Magazine's 30 Emerging Photographers To Watch.
Jun Cen's illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He was given a New Talent award from the Association of Illustrators in 2013. His art has also been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, and 3x3.
Josh Cook's work has appeared in the Iowa Review, the Millions, the Rumpus, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Rain Taxi Review of Books. He teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Veronique Greenwood's work has appeared...
