Ru Freeman is an award-winning Sri Lankan born writer and activist whose creative and political work has appeared internationally, including in the UK Guardian, The Boston Globe, and the New York Times. She is the author of the essay collection Bon Courage: Essays on Inheritance, Citizenship & A Creative Life (2023), the short story collection, Sleeping Alone (2022), and the novels A Disobedient Girl (2009), and On Sal Mal […]

Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ […]

Shane Hinton’s debut story collection Pinkies was selected as a finalist for a 2016 Firecracker Award in Fiction by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. He is the editor of the anthology We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida and the author of the forthcoming novella Radio Dark. He teaches writing at the […]

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 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, 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 […]