Michael Shapiro

Michael Shapiro is the author of The Creative Spark, winner of a 2021 Independent Publishers Book Award. Among the authors he interviewed for that book: Barbara Kingsolver, Pico Iyer, and Amy Tan. He’s also the author of A Sense of Place,…

Ethel Rohan

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Amanda Mei Kim

Amanda Mei Kim writes about collective power, racism, connections to nature, and capitalism in the lives of rural Californians of color. She is a Steinbeck Fellow and a California Arts Council Fellow. Her essays on rural life have received an…

Wendy Liu

Wendy Liu is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How To Liberate Technology From Capitalism. She lives in San Francisco.

Tongo Eisen-Martin

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Garrett Therolf

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Catriona McPherson

Catriona McPherson was born in the village of Queensferry in southeast Scotland and left Edinburgh University with a PhD in linguistics. Her historical fiction has been shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Award and longlisted for Theakston's…
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Jasmin Darznik

JASMIN DARZNIK is the New York Times bestselling author of three books, most recently The Bohemians. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. She is chair and associate professor of the…

Ashara Ekundayo

Ashara Ekundayo is a queer Black feminist interdisciplinary independent curator, cultural theologian, writer and consultant whose creative arts practice utilizes joy-informed pedagogies to reimagine collective liberation strategies. She is the…
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Elaine Tai

Elaine Tai (she/her) is a librarian with strong interests in social justice and lifelong learning, and has been lucky to engage with wonderful authors, artists, activists, and others because of the reach of libraries. She is often motivated…