Rita Chang-Eppig

Rita Chang-Eppig's debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, will be published in May. She received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions,…

Alexis Madrigal

Bio coming soon!

Shawn Taylor

Shawn Taylor is a founding author of www.thenerdsofcolor.org, and a founding organizer of The Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF). Taylor is a recognized scholar and sought-after speaker in the areas of pop culture and participatory culture…

Ariana Proehl

Ariana Proehl is a writer, producer and host with a passion for exploring and understanding why we do the things we do. She is currently a culture reporter for KQED, telling unique stories about Bay Area life, arts and culture. Proehl also created…

Kristin Keane

Kristin Keane is the author of An Encyclopedia of Bending Time and Luminaries. Her writing and research have or will appear in/at the Washington Post, Ploughshares, New England Review, Creative Nonfiction, TriQuarterly, Reading Research Quarterly,…

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a bestselling science fiction writer and activist. He is a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with whom he has worked for twenty years. He is also a visiting professor of computer science at the Open University…

Ava Chin

Ava Chin is the author of Eating Wildly, winner of the Les Dames d’Escoffier International M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, and Saveur.…
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Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s received the Pulitzer Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, Guggenheim,…

Jens Liljestrand

Jens Liljestrand is a critically acclaimed journalist and writer in his native Sweden. He has been a critic for the newspapers Sydsvenskan and Dagens Nyheter and was a long-serving editor of the culture section of Expressen. His bestselling…

Vanessa A. Bee

Vanessa A. Bee is a consumer protection lawyer and essayist. Born in Cameroon, she grew up in France, England, and the United States. Bee holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Nevada and a law degree from Harvard. She lives in…