Authors

Sayu Bhojwani Sayu Bhojwani

Sayu Bhojwani is the founder and president of The New American Leaders Project. She served as New York City Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs from 2002 to 2004.

Nov 24, 2015

Matthew Dal Santo Matthew Dal Santo

Matthew Dal Santo is a Research Fellow at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he works on contemporary Russia. He previously worked for the Australian Depa…

Nov 23, 2015

Hanna Brooks Olsen Hanna Brooks Olsen

Hanna Brooks Olsen is a writer and reporter living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Fast Company, Salon, and the Huffington Post.

Nov 23, 2015

Tom Lutz Tom Lutz

Tom Lutz is an American writer and literary critic, and founder and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Nov 20, 2015

Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian American journalist and author whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Nov 20, 2015

Gary Shteyngart Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story, which won the Bollinger Eve…

Nov 20, 2015

Maaza Mengiste Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar, photographer, and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African bo…

Nov 20, 2015

Yiyun Li Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Aw…

Nov 20, 2015

Phil Klay Phil Klay

Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Offic…

Nov 20, 2015

Marlon James Marlon James

Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

Nov 20, 2015

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