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1 8 8 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S JAMES ARTHUR’s first book, Charms Against Lightning, was published by Copper CanyonPressin2012 .TheSuicide’sSonisforthcoming next year from Véhicule Press. His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Johns Hopkins University . JABARI ASIM’s We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival (from which ‘‘Getting It Twisted’’ is excerpted ) appears this season from Picador. Other work includes Only the Strong (Agate, 2015) and A Child’s Introduction to African-American History (Hachette, 2018). He is graduate program director of the M.F.A. in creative writing at Emerson College. KAREN E. BENDER is a novelist (A Town of Empty Rooms, Like Normal People) and short story writer. Her collection of stories, Refund, was a finalist in 2015 for the National Book Award and the recipient of other honors. The collection The New Order will be published by Counterpoint later this season. REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS is author A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, the poetry collection Shahid Reads His Own Palm, and Bastards of the Reagan Era, winner of the 2016 PEN New England Award in Poetry. He is currently a doctoral candidate in law at the Yale Law School. RANDY BLASING’s ninth book of poems, A Change of Heart, will appear later this fall. His recent books include Sweet Crude (poems) and Nazim Hikmet’s Letters to Tranta-Babu (translations). When he isn’t visiting New Mexico or Turkey, he lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island. DAVID W. BLIGHT is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Author and editor of many books, his most recent, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (from which ‘‘Bondage and Freedom’’ is excerpted) appears this season from Simon and Schuster. DON BOGEN is author of five books of poetry, including Luster and An Algebra. Immediate Song will be published next year by Milkweed Editions. He is Nathaniel Ropes Professor Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, and serves as editor-at-large of The Cincinnati Review. BRUCE BOND is the author of more than twenty books, including Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (Louisiana State University Press), Black Anthem (University of Tampa Press), and Sacrum (Four Ways Press). He is Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas. RENEE DIRESTA is the Director of Research at New Knowledge, and Head of Policy at the nonprofit Data for Democracy. She investigates the spread of malign narratives across social networks, and assists policy- C O N T R I B U T O R S 1 8 9 R makers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations. She is a 2018 Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation and Trust. Her tech industry writing , analysis, talks, and data visualizations have been featured or covered by The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Wired, The Economist, and many others. LESLIE EPSTEIN’s novels include King of the Jews and Liebestod: Opera Bu√a with Lieb Goldkorn. For over thirty years he was director of the creative writing program at Boston University. VONA GROARKE is author of seven collections of poetry published with Gallery Press, most recently X (2014) and Selected Poems, awarded the Pigott Prize for the best Irish book of poetry in 2016. Her booklength essay Four Sides Full was also published that year. She is a senior lecturer in poetry at the University of Manchester and one of the 2018-2019 Fellows at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. HENRY HART was recently sworn in as Virginia ’s poet laureate. He is author of many critical works and collections of poems, including The Ghost Ship, Battleground...

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