Authors

Ayesha Raees Ayesha Raees

Ayesha Raees is the author of Coining a Wishing Tower and the Assistant Poetry Editor at Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins.

Jun 3, 2022

Leila Chatti Leila Chatti

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Jun 3, 2022

Hussein Omar Hussein Omar

Hussein Omar is writing a 500-year history of Egypt through its mausolea. He organizes with Writers Against the War on Gaza.

Jun 3, 2022

Nkosi Nkululeko Nkosi Nkululeko

Nkosi Nkululeko’s work is published or forthcoming in places such as ANMLY, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, and more. Nkosi is anthologized in th…

Jun 3, 2022

Kemi Alabi Kemi Alabi

Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, and co-editor of The Ech…

Jun 3, 2022

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of the award-winning collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discov…

Jun 3, 2022

Nicole Froio Nicole Froio

Nicole Froio is a Colombian-Brazilian writer, researcher, and translator currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She writes about women’s rights, pop culture, feminism, workers&…

Jun 1, 2022

Mara Marques Cavallaro Mara Marques Cavallaro

Mara Marques Cavallaro is a writer based broadly on the East Coast. She’s currently a fact-checker and editorial intern at The Nation.

May 31, 2022

Burton Silverman Burton Silverman

Burton Silverman is a world-famous realist painter. He has had many shows and won many awards.

May 27, 2022

Ryan Doerfler Ryan Doerfler

Ryan Doerfler is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

May 25, 2022

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