John Hennessy is the author of two collections, Coney Island Pilgrims and Bridge and Tunnel, and his poems appear in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2013, The Believer, Poetry, Fulcrum, Harvard Review, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, Best New Poets 2005, and The Yale Review. Hennessy went to Princeton University on […]

Jordan Bass is the executive editor of McSweeney’s Publishing, where he’s helped to edit and design dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction, since 2004.

Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books, a relatively new press at the University of Rochester dedicated to publishing contemporary literature from around the world. In addition, he is the managing editor of Three Percent, a blog and review site that promotes literature in translation and is home to both the Translation […]

Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press, 2011) and the chapbook Silt (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Her debut crime novel, The Red Chameleon, will be published next year by Pegasus Books. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, […]

Catherine Tice has worked at the The New York Review of Books for over two decades as the Associate Publisher. She lives in Brooklyn, and has made slender contributions to the St. Petersburg Review,  Le Monde Diplomatique,  and  most recently, Granta.

Meakin Armstrong is fiction editor of Guernica, a top-ranked literary and political site that’s received acclaim by magazines such as Esquire. He is a writer for Business Insider and a former employee of The New Yorker. His work has appeared in various fiction anthologies, and in Wigleaf, Noö Journal, InDigest, TheAtlantic.com, Time Out New York, and the books New York Calling: From Blackout to […]