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Author of the novels After Birth and The Book of Dahlia and the short story collection How This Night Is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot.
Libby Flores MFA '14 has had her work appear in One Story Magazine, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, Tin House, The Guardian, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the Associate Publisher at BOMB magazine.
Rare-book dealer who brokered the sale of important archives such as the papers of Norman Mailer and Don DeLillo and the Watergate notebooks of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Photograph © Mark Mahaney
Actress, poet, and writer best known for her role as “Lady Aberlin” on the children’s television classic Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and more recently in movies including Dogma, Jersey Girl, and Red State
Lisa Ann Cockrel is an editor and event curator whose own creative writing explores the interplay between social bodies and individual bodies, with a specific focus on fat bodies.
Poet and essayist whose work has been honored by the Western World Haiku Society
Simonds is a poet and critic. She is the author of eight books of poetry and a novel. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine and elsewhere.
Investigative reporter, writer, and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and other national outlets
Filmmaker, colorist, and founder of Horned Melon Productions. His directorial work explores the self-help obsessions of privileged Brooklynites and the grey areas between love and friendship and has been called “sharp-witted and literary” by NoBudge. His color grading can be seen on the film Outlaw Posse, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Edward James Olmos, and Cedric the Entertainer.
Poet and memoirist. Author of How to Say Babylon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize in Nonfiction.
Anaïs Duplan '14 is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), and a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020). He founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency program for artists of color, at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One.
Part IV of Making space—for home, for preservation, for performance, for community.
Artist, performer, and AIDS activist whose work helped create the first effective drug protocols to combat the syndrome
Photograph © Walter Kurtz
Phillip B. Williams is the author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He received a 2017 Whiting Award and 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Phillip is the co-editor in chief of the online journal Vinyl.
Alex Creighton (he/they) writes about and teaches literature and culture in diverse fields, including the long eighteenth century, gender and sexuality studies, music and narrative, animal studies, and studies of time and temporality.
Poet, author of That Blue Repair, and chair of the liberal arts department at the Curtis Institute of Music
National Book Award-winning translator of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel and author of the novel Blue Light Hours. Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Grinnell College. Published in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and A Public Space, among others.
Matthew Groner is a fiction writer working on his first novella, Every Good Atom.
Annabel Davis-Goff is a novelist, essayist, social justice advocate, and a driving force behind Bennington College’s Incarceration in America and Prison Education Initiatives.
Maria Dahvana Headley is a New York Times-bestselling novelist, translator, poet, and dramatist whose work unearths hidden meanings, characters, and possibilities in stories we think we know. Her version of the literary world is one in which all the genres merge, all the storytellers are equally thrilling, and there are definitely dragons.
Founder of Voices UnBroken, a nonprofit dedicated to giving vulnerable young people opportunity for creative self-expression.