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Judy Halebsky

Judy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections—Sky=Empty, Tree Line, and Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)—and the chapbook Space/Gap/Interval/Distance. Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she holds an MFA in English…

Britta Stromeyer Esmail

Britta Stromeyer Esmail is a writer and educator passionate about raising resilient girls and writers to find their own voice. She is the author of Raina’s (UN) Happy Birthday, a picture book recipient of the Gold Seal of the Mom’s Choice…

Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman is an activist, writer, editor, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry, all from Wesleyan University Press, including Extra Hidden Life Among the Days, (Winner of 2019 Northern California Book Award), Seasonal…

Henri Cole

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published ten previous collections of poetry, including Touch (winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize) and Pierce the Skin (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award), and a memoir, Orphic…

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads, and five works of nonfiction, most recently Farther Away and The End of the End of the Earth. He lives in Santa Cruz.

Thomas Brussig

Thomas Brussig is the author of seven novels, including Wie es leuchtet and Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us, FSG, 1997). As a screenwriter, he worked with Edgar Reitz on his Heimat epic. Born in East Berlin, Brussig now divides his time between…

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…