Contributors

308 aria aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. Her debut, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. carlos manuel álvarez is a Cuban journalist and author. The Fallen, his debut novel, is forthcoming in the US in 2020. His collection of reportage, The Tribe, will be forthcoming in English in 2021. catherine barnett, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Human Hours (winner of the 2018 Believer Book Award in Poetry). emily bernard is the author of a new collection of essays, Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine. She is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont. rahul bery translates from Spanish and Portuguese into English and is based in Cardi≠, Wales. His debut full-length translation, David Trueba’s Rolling Fields, will be published in 2020. molly mccully brown is the author of the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded and the essay collection Places I’ve Taken my Body (forthcoming in 2020). She teaches at Kenyon College. dan chiasson is the author of six books, including The Math Campers, which will be published in 2020. He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker, and teaches at Wellesley College. Contributors 309 lydia davis’s Essays One, her first collection of nonfiction, was published this fall. Her most recent collection of stories is Can’t and Won’t (2014). sasha debevec-mckenney was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the 2018 Rona Ja≠e Fellow in Creative Writing at New York University, where she is currently pursuing her MFA. brian dillon’s most recent book is Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction (2018). In Pieces: Writings on Art, etc. will be published in 2020. anaïs duplan is a trans poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (2020). miranda featherstone is a writer and social worker whose fiction has appeared in the Saint Ann’s Review. She lives with her family in Philadelphia. This is her first published essay. langdon hammer, Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale, is author of James Merrill: Life and Art (2015). His first publication was a poem in The Yale Review in 1981. sheila heti is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels How Should a Person Be? and Motherhood. The essay from this issue was initially delivered at the Tate Modern in London. cathy park hong’s book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings, is forthcoming this spring. She is the author of three poetry collections . A recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize at Yale University, she is the poetry editor of The New Republic. laura kolbe practices medicine and teaches at Weill Cornell 310 Hospital in New York. Her poems, essays, and fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, The New York Review of Books, VQR, and elsewhere. raven leilani’s work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review. Her debut novel, Luster, is forthcoming in 2020. ben lerner, the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, among other honors, is the author of three books of poetry, including The Lichtenberg Figures, three novels, including The Topeka School, and an essay, The Hatred of Poetry. jim lewis is a novelist, essayist, and journalist, specializing, in his latter roles, in art and visual culture. sandra lim is the author of The Wilderness (2014) and Loveliest Grotesque (2006). She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. sarah manguso is the author of seven books of poetry and prose, including 300 Arguments and The Two Kinds of Decay. idra novey is the author of Those Who Knew, a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize. Her first novel Ways to Disappear received the Brooklyn Public Library Prize. daniel poppick is the author of Fear of Description, a 2018 National Poetry Series selection, and The Police (2017). He lives in Brooklyn, where he co-edits...