Mimi Lok is the author of the story collection Last Of Her Name, which won the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut short story collection, a California Book Award silver medal, and a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award. She is also a finalist for the 2020 National Magazine Award, Northern California Book Award, and CLMP Firecracker Award. Mimi is al…

Joanna Ruocco is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Week, Field Glass, written with Joanna Howard, and Dan. Her novel, Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. She also writes historical romance under noms de plume. The Duke Undone, written as Joanna Lowell …

Dougie Poole is a singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. His music has been described as an "intersection of experimental pop and outlaw country". Poole's second album, The Freelancer's Blues, was released in June 2020.Por Dougie Poole

Jennifer S. Cheng is the author of MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named a “Best Book of 2018” by Publishers Weekly and Entropy magazine; House A, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; and Invocation: An Essay, an image-text chapbook. She is a 2019 …

Hilary Leichter is the author of the novel Temporary, which was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times, and New York Magazine's The Cut. She teaches fiction at Columbia University and has been awarded fellowshi…

Jesse Ball’s work focuses on problems of knowledge and status. His absurd texts have been published in twenty languages.Por Jesse Ball

Lucy Corin is the author of the short story collections One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses and The Entire Predicament as well as a novel, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls. Writings have appeared in American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Harper’s Magazine, Ploughshares, Bomb, Tin House Magazine, and the most recent New American …

Léonie Guyer makes paintings, drawings, site-based work, and books. Her work is characterized by idiosyncratic shapes that are deployed in a variety of spaces. Guyer's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and held in numerous public collections including the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Metropolitan Museum …

Ismail Muhammad is a writer and critic based in Oakland, where he works as a story editor at The New York Times Magazine. Until recently he was the criticism editor at The Believer. His work has appeared in the Times Book Review, Paris Review, Catapult, The Nation, Bookforum, and other venues. He's currently working on a novel.…

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, which was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. In 2020, she was awarded the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize. She is an Assistant Professor at the New School and her second novel, Somethi…

Rebekah Bergman is a fiction writer living in Rhode Island. Her stories have been published in Tin House Online, Hobart, Joyland, and other journals. Bergman was a 2018 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a winner of The Masters Review Anthology Prize, judged by Rebecca Makkai. She has earned fellowships from Art Farm,…

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the a…

Brontez Purnell is an Oakland-based writer, musician, dancer, and director. He is the author of several books, including 100 Boyfriends (2021), and the zine Fag School. He is also the front man for the punk band The Younger Lovers and the founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.Por Brontez Purnell

Sarah Gerard is the author of three books. Her essay collection Sunshine State was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her novel Binary Star was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and …

Yuri Herrera is a Mexican author and political scientist. He has written several short novels, four of which have been translated into English: A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire (El incendio de la mina El Bordo), Transmigration of Bodies (Las transmigración de los Cuerpos), Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del…

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book Barn 8 was named a best book of 2020 by NPR, Slate, Austin Chronicle, and Literary Hub. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. An advocate of prison reform, Unferth founded and runs the Pen City Writers, a creative-writing certif…

Patrick Cottrell was born in Korea and raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. His work has appeared in Guernica, BOMB, and Gulf Coast, among other publications. Sorry To Disrupt the Peace, Cottrell’s first novel, was long-listed for the Times Literary Supplement’s Republic of Consciousness Prize, and was the winner of the Best First Book – F…

Samantha Hunt is the author of The Dark Dark: Stories and three novels. Her first novel, The Seas, earned her selection as one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35. Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story, was an IndieNext Pick. The Invention of Everything Else, which is about the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, was a finalist for the Orange Prize …

Diane Williams is the author of nine books of fiction, including her latest book, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams. Her tenth volume of short fiction How High? - That High will be published in October 2021. She is also the founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual NOON. She lives in New York City.…

Vi Khi Nao’s work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration. She is the author of the novel Fish in Exile, the story collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize) and of four poetry collections: Human Tetris, Sheep Machine, Umbilical Hospital, and The Old Philosopher (…

Benjamin Booker is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has recorded two albums: Benjamin Booker (2014) and Witness (2017). He cites The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson and T. Rex as influences. His music was described by the Chicago Tribune as "a raw brand of blues/boogie/soul," by The Independent as "frenzied guitar-strummin…

Born in Beijing, C Pam Zhang is mostly an artifact of the United States. She is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, winner of the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature and nominated for the Booker Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award, among others. Zhang's writing …

Catherine Lacey is the author of four works of fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, and Pew. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a 2016 Whiting Award, and earned an artists' fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Granta Magazine named her one of their "Best of Young American Novelists" in…

Christine Schutt is the author of three short story collections, Nightwork; A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer; and most recently, Pure Hollywood, a New York Times notable book for 2018 and winner of the Katharine Anne Porter Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her first novel, Florida, was a National Book Award finalist; her seco…