Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry (The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path), three novels (Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School), several limited editions and artist books (including Blossom, with Thomas Demand), and the 2016 monograph The Hatred of Poetry. He has received fellowships from […]

Joy Williams is the author of five collections of stories including, most recently, 99 Stories of God and The Visiting Privilege, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award. She has also published four novels, including The Quick and the Dead, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a book of essays, Ill Nature, which was […]

Shayla Lawson is the author of three books of poetry—A Speed Education in Human Being, the chapbook PANTONE and I Think I’m Ready to see Frank Ocean—and the forthcoming essay collection THIS IS MAJOR (Harper Perennial, 2020).  Their work has appeared in print & online at Tin House, PAPER, ESPN, Salon, Guernica, & others. A MacDowell and […]

T Kira Māhealani Madden is a hapa-Kanaka Maoli writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, NYSCA/NYFA, and Yaddo. Her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, […]

Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019) and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the New York Public Library and George Washington University. Her work has been published in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Tin House, A Public Space, and the […]

David Leavitt’s novels and story collections include Family Dancing, The Lost Language of Cranes, Arkansas, The Indian Clerk, and The Two Hotel Francforts, set in Lisbon in the summer of 1940. He is also the author of two works of nonfiction, Florence, A Delicate Case and The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and […]

Camille Bordas is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels in English, The Material (Random House, 2024), and How to Behave in a Crowd (Tim Duggan Books, 2017). Her earlier two books, Partie Commune and Les Treize Desserts, were written in her native French. Her fiction has appeared in The […]

Chris Feliciano Arnold has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Times, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Vice News, The Believer, Folha de S. Paulo and more. The recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has published fiction in Playboy, The Kenyon Review, Ecotone and other […]

Jenny Offill is the author of two novels, Last Things and Dept. of Speculation. Dept. was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2014 by the NY Times and was shortlisted for the Pen/Faulkner and the Dublin Literary Award. She is the 2019 writer-in-residence at Vassar College.   Photo: Emily Tobey

Justin Torres’ first novel We the Animals, a national best seller, has been translated into fifteen languages and is currently being adapted into a feature film.  He has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and other publications, as well as non-fiction pieces in publications […]