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Fiona McCrae



Fiona McCrae has been publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994, following four years at Faber and Faber USA in Boston, where she was a director and executive editor. From 1982 until her move to Boston in 1991, she was at Faber and Faber, Ltd., in London, where she worked with such authors as Kazuo Ishiguro, […]

Rosalind Porter



Rosalind Porter is the editor of two anthologies: Four-Letter Word: New Love Letters and The Seven Deadly Sins: A Celebration of Virtue and Vice. She has worked as a book editor for Random House UK and Oneworld Publications and is currently the Deputy Editor of Granta Magazine.

Jeffery Renard Allen



Jeffery Renard Allen is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. Allen is the author of five books, most recently the novel Song of the Shank (Graywolf Press, 2014), which is loosely based on the life of Blind Tom, a nineteenth century African American piano virtuoso and composer who was the first African […]

Jensen Beach



Jensen Beach is the author of two collections of short fiction, most recently Swallowed by the Cold. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, Ninth Letter, the Paris Review, and The New Yorker. He has degrees from Stockholm University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and teaches in the BFA program at Vermont State University, […]

Mikhail Iossel



Mikhail Iossel, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants to Know (W.W. Norton) and co-editor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (TinConcordia University in Montrea House, 2010), is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada – and the founding director […]

Chanan Tigay



Chanan Tigay is the author of The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible (Ecco/HarperCollins), along with a number of other works of nonfiction, including “The Special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army” (McSweeney’s) and “Nuclear Meltdown,”about a California nuclear facility built on four active fault lines. In April he […]

Annie Liontas



Annie Liontas is the trans-genderqueer author of the memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA’s 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award. Their debut novel Let Me Explain You was a New York Times Editors Choice book.  They co-edited the anthology A Manner […]

Christopher Cerf



Christopher Cerf is an author, producer, composer-lyricist, semi-bestselling humorist, and co-founder and president of the educational media company, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., where he co-created and co-produced the multiple award-winning PBS children’s literacy show, Between the Lions. Cerf has won three Emmys and two Grammys for his musical contributions to Sesame Street; was a senior editor […]

Molly Antopol



Molly Antopol’s debut story collection, The UnAmericans, won the a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and France’s Translation Prize. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award; was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the National Jewish Book […]