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Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels, including The Silk Road and Duplex. She has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her new book is Aurelia, Aurelia a memoir. Davis won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006 […]

Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist and inequality editor at BuzzFeed News and author of Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Village Voice, San Francisco Weekly, and the Riverfront Times, among other outlets. A Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, he is also the author of Never […]

Jordan Salama’s work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic, and Scientific American. His book, Every Day the River Changes, was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. A 2019 graduate of Princeton University, he lives in New York. Ben Shattuck, a former Teaching-Writing Fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ […]

Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of six books, including his new book, The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City. His book, The Fly Swatter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another, In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, was named one of […]

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the collection of poems Machete and the  new memoir Let Me Count the Ways, as well as the poetry collections Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and translator of The Heights of […]