Contributors’ Notes
Mary-Kim Arnold wrote Litany for the Long Moment and The Fish & The Dove. She lives in Rhode Island.
Maeve Barry lives in New York. Her stories are in Sewanee Review, FENCE, Columbia Journal, Rose Books Reader, and elsewhere.
Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat, named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Electric Literature.
Hisham Bustani is a Jordanian writer of poetry, fiction, and hybrid works that focus on the dystopian experience of postcolonial modernity in the Arab region.
Rachel Connolly writes fiction and essays. Her first novel Lazy City won a Betty Trask award.
Emma De Lisle lives in Western Massachusetts, studies religion at Harvard, and co-edits Mark.
Lucie Elven’s The Weak Spot came out in 2021. She has written for NOON, The New Yorker, and the London Review of Books. She lives in London.
Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns and Granny Cloud. She lives in Troy, New York.
Jake Fournier is an EMT living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His book, Punish- ment Bag, is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press.
Tracy Fuad is the author of two collections of poetry, PORTAL and about:blank. She lives in Berlin and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.
Mag Gabbert wrote SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, which won the Charles B. Wheeler and Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Awards.
Alice Guthrie is an independent translator, editor, lecturer, and curator specializ- ing in contemporary Arabic writing.
Mihaela Ilieva is a Bulgarian writer and professor at New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Her debut book was published in 2023.
Rita Indiana is a composer and the writer of Tentacle, winner of the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers.
Jesse Littlejohn lives in New Jersey. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, DIAGRAM, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere.
Valeria Luiselli is the author of Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive.
Ma Yongbo was born in 1964. He is a practitioner of Chinese avant-garde poetry, and a leading scholar in Anglo-American poetry.
Betsy Mitchell Martinez’s poems appear or are forthcoming in New Letters, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, EPOCH, Rattle, and other journals.
Mary Miller is the author of two story collections and two novels, most recently Biloxi: A Novel (Liveright, 2019).
Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry including Seabeast (Four Way Books, 2025).
Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer from New York City.
Erin Morris is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn. She received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and her BFA from Cooper Union.
Achy Obejas is a translator and the author of the forthcoming The Boy Kingdom/ El reino de los varones, a bilingual poetry collection.
TA Penny is a poet, educator, collagist, and community organizer from Mississippi, currently based in Brooklyn with their cat, LB2.
Luis Polanco is a writer living in New York.
Amrita Pritam (1919–2005) was a prominent Punjabi poet, writer, editor, and translator. Her work has won several major literary honors.
Mahmud Rahman’s nomadic life has landed him in Philadelphia. He writes fiction and nonfiction and translates Bengali fiction into English.
Danila Raycheva is a Bulgarian writer and translator, currently translating Mihaela Ilieva’s short story collection, An X-Ray of Freedom.
Julian Robles is a Mexican writer from California with work in AGNI, The Drift, and Best American Short Stories.
Allison Heather Rodgers is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Mercedes Rodriguez is a poet and educator from Los Angeles. They are an MFA candidate at North Carolina State University.
Paloma Saint-Denis Lopez is a poet from Puerto Rico and Brooklyn.
Johann Sarna lives and works in New York. His poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
J.D. Scrimgeour leads the translation group, the Ginling Collective. His latest book, Small, Rectangular, Reflected World will appear in 2025.
Rituparna Sengupta is a literary translator, writer, and scholar from India. Cur- rently, she teaches at O.P. Jindal Global University.
Delilah Silberman is from Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Conjunctions, Poetry Daily, and others.
Sarah Southern is a graduate student studying writing in San Diego. Her work explores themes of preservation, place, and wonder.
Silvia Suseno is a poet and lyric essayist from Singapore. They are pursuing their MFA in nonfiction at Columbia University.
Leora Thornton is a writer and filmmaker. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Michael Wasson is the author of Swallowed Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). He is from the Nez Perce Reservation.
Sarah Weck is a queer writer and a Felipe P. De Alba merit fellow at Columbia University’s fiction MFA program.
weegbree lives, loves, and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Joe Wenderoth is Coach of the U6 Bumblebees. He lives in the South. He has a black dog and a gray hairless cat.
James Whorton Jr. has published three novels. His essay “An Upset Place” appears in Best American Essays 2024.
Zach Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship.
Christian Yeo Xuan (he/they) is a writer and actor based in Singapore by way of Paris and Beirut.
Teodozia Zarivna is a Ukrainian poet and novelist. She lives in Kyiv, and is the editor of the magazine Kyiv.