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sakena abedin is a pediatrician and a lecturer in the History Department at Yale.

kemi alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Their work appears in Poetry, The Atlantic, Best New Poets, Redivider as winner of the 2020 Beacon Street Prize, and elsewhere. Coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press), they live in Chicago, IL.

liyanage amarakeerthi is a contemporary Sri Lankan writer, critic, and academic. He is the author of eight collections of short stories, five novels, and two collections of poetry. He is also a writer of two children's books, six academic books, and ten translations into Sinhalese. His novel Atawaka Puththu (Half-moon Sons) won the Best Sinhala Novel award at the 2008 State Literary Festival. He is also the recipient of the National Award for Literature in 2000, Swarna Pusthaka Awards in 2014 and 2016, and the Vidyodaya Literary Award in 2014 for his fiction and prose works.

gabrielle bates is the author of Judas Goat, forthcoming from Tin House in 2023. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, APR, and The Offing, among other journals.

whitney devos is a writer, translator, and scholar specializing in hemispheric American literatures. She is the translator of Notes Toward a Pamphlet by Sergio Chejfec and The Semblable by Chantal Maillard, and cotranslator of Carlos Soto Román's 11 and Hugo García Manríquez's Commonplace / Lo común, both forthcoming. Her translations of Valeria Meiller have also appeared in AzonaL, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, as well as in Columbia Journal, where a selection was awarded the spring 2021 prize in translation.

andrea durlacher is a poet, novelist, columnist, and creative writing instructor who lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her collection of poems, Ni un segundo para arrepentirme, was published by Artefato in 2004, and her poetry has since been included in various anthologies. Her debut novel, Esto es una pipa (This is a pipe), was published by Random House in 2015.

amaia gabantxo is a writer, singer, and literary translator specialized in Basque literature—a pioneer in the field and its greatest contributor. She's a multiple award recipient: a Wingate Scholar and OMI alumni, and a 2020-21 artist-in-residence at the CLEAR Maritime Lab in Newfoundland's Memorial University. A descendant of seafaring folk, she has translated generational skills into an ability to chart new routes in the literary seas. She is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her album Kantuz: 1931 was released last year.

chitra ganesh is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work encompasses drawing, painting, comics, installation, video art, and animation. She often draws on Hindu and Buddhist iconography and South Asian forms such as Kalighat and Madhubani, and is currently negotiating her relationship to these images with the rise of right wing fundamentalism in India. Ganesh has exhibited widely across the U.S., Europe, and South Asia, and her work is held in prominent public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Ganesh's site-specific QUEERPOWER FACADE commission at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, is on view through June 2022, and her solo show, Nightswimmers, is on view at Hales Gallery through February 5, 2022.

As a social worker, j. malcolm garcia worked with homeless people in San Francisco for fourteen years before he made the jump into journalism in 1995. He is a recipient of the Studs Terkel Prize for writing about the working classes and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. His most recent book is The Fruit of All My Grief: Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream.

aaron hamburger is the author of the story collection The View...

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