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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, […]
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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 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 […]
D/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 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’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 […]
Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, and Slow Burn. Her short story collection The Caprices was the winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award. Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charilie Chan is Dead II: An […]
John Hennessy is the author of three collections, Coney Island Pilgrims, Bridge and Tunnel, and Exit Garden State (new from Lost Horse Press/Washington State UP), poems from which appear in multiple editions of The Best American Poetry, The Believer, Harvard Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. With Ostap […]
Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar, photographer, and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction […]