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  • Contributors

anne boyer is a poet and essayist who lives in Kansas City. Her honors include the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, and a Whiting Award in nonfiction and poetry.

sarah shun-lien bynum is the author of two novels—Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award—and a new story collection, Likes. She lives in Los Angeles.

alexander chee is a novelist and essayist. His latest book is the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.

julia cho, playwright, is the recipient of a Susan Smith Blackburn prize and Claire Tow award. Her book, The Language Archive and Other Plays, is now available.

susan choi's most recent novel is Trust Exercise, which received the 2019 National Book Award for fiction. She teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.

samuel r. delany is a novelist and critic who taught literature and creative writing at the University of Massachusetts and Temple University. He has won Nebulas, Hugos, and the Stonewall Book Award.

aleshea harris's Is God Is won the Relentless Award, an Obie award, and the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award. What to Send Up… was featured in American Theatre Magazine and won a Special Commendation from the 2020 Blackburn Prize. [End Page 208]

cathy park hong's Minor Feelings was published in Spring 2020. Hong is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize and Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and a full professor at Rutgers-Newark University.

bhanu kapil is an artist by-fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. She is the author of six full-length works, including How To Wash A Heart and Ban en Banlieue. She teaches at Goddard College as part of the low-residency MFA in creative writing.

douglas kearney's six collections include Buck Studies, winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award. His newest collection, Sho, is forthcoming. His operas include Sucktion, Sweet Land, and next year's Comet / Poppea. He lives in St. Paul with his family.

yiyun li is the author of seven books, including her recent novel, Must I Go. Her books have won awards including PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/Hemingway, and many others. She teaches at Princeton University.

jonah mixon-webster is a poet and conceptual/sound artist from Flint, MI. His debut poetry collection, Stereo(TYPE), received the PEN America/Joyce Osterweil Award. His works are featured in publications including Callaloo, Harper's, and The Rumpus.

namwali serpell is a Zambian writer and professor of English at Harvard. She is the author of a book of literary criticism called Seven Modes of Uncertainty, a novel called The Old Drift, and an essay collection called Stranger Faces.

maria tumarkin is the author of four books of ideas. The latest is Axiomatic. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural history and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne. [End Page 209]

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