Himat Mohammed Ali

Himat Mohammed Ali was born in Kirkuk (Kurdistan), Iraq, 1960. Al Mutanabbi Street is a series of 12 hand-made artist books that embody the destruction of Baghdad’s famed eponymous book-market. Himat has shown his work in numerous solo exhibitions in France, Japan, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and throughout the Arab world. He has published over 30 works in collaboration with Adonis and André Velter, and a collective artist book, Letters to Ishtar, with seven Arab and French poets: Adonis, Bernard Noel, Sadi Youssef, Muhammad Bennis, Qasim Haddad, Michel Butor, and Abdul Munim Ramadan.

Fahim Amir

Fahim Amir is a Viennese philosopher and author. He has taught at various universities and art academies in Europe and Latin America. His research explores the thresholds of nature, cultures and urbanism; performance and utopia; and colonial historicity and modernism.

Both "Pigeon Politics" and "Swinish Multitudes" are excerpts from the book Being and Swine, now available for purchase in the US and Canada from the publisher, Between the Lines, and in the UK from Foyles. The ebook is available worldwide from Between the Lines.

Gina Apostol

Gina Apostol's fourth novel, Insurrecto, was named by Publishers' Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018, an Editor's Choice of the NYT, and shortlisted for the Dayton Prize. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City.

Roy Vadíl Aragon

Roy Vadíl Aragon is a fictionist and poet who writes mostly in Ilokano language. Besides writing, he edits and designs books, works as a freelance translator-editor, maintains the food blog Pinakbet Republic, and administers the widely popular Ilokano Food page in Facebook.

Janet Biggs

Janet Biggs is an interdisciplinary artist known for her immersive work in video, film and performance. Biggs’s work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations, navigating the territory between art, science and technology. Biggs has collaborated with nuclear physicists, neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, a robot named Shimon, and recently sent a project to the International Space Station as part of MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative.

Matt Bollinger

Matt Bollinger has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Recent museum exhibitions have been at the South Bend Museum of Art (2020), the Schneider Museum (2018) and Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole (2016). He is represented by Zürcher Gallery and mother’s tankstation and lives and works in New York State.

Jean Marie Casbarian

Jean Marie Casbarian is a visual artist born to an Armenian father and a German mother on a military weapons base in Aberdeen, Maryland. Over the course of her nomadic lifestyle she has lived lives across the US, in Chicago, California, Colorado, Massachusetts and New York. Her creative practice rests in the reinterpretation of imagined space and memory, and the loss and longing that occur in attempting to reconstruct them.

Geoffrey Chadsey

Geoffrey Chadsey is known for his drawings of hybrid figures in a constant state of shedding and becoming that shift between genders, time frames and sometimes species. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.

Sue Coe

Since the 1970s, Sue Coe has worked at the juncture of art and activism to expose injustices and abuses of power. Her illustrations have graced the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, The Nation, and the cover of ARTnews. Her exhibitions include a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, NY. She is represented by Galerie St. Etienne, NY.

Hernease Davis

Hernease Davis uses craft, photograms, cyanotypes, and sound performance as means to explore self-care and empathy. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US including at Houston Center for Photography, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), International Center of Photography (NY), and Center for Photography at Woodstock; it has been profiled in Lens Culture, Front Runner, and Musée. Hernease teaches at the Visual Studies Workshop (SUNY Brockport) and as Visiting Lecturer at ICP-Bard College.

Steve DiBenedetto

Steve DiBenedetto was born in the Bronx, New York in 1958 and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Painting, and the Tiffany Foundation Award. He regularly shows his work in New York and around the globe, including the exhibition Remote Viewing at the Whitney Museum (NY) and a survey show at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Elizabeth Duffy

Trained in sculpture, painting, drawing, jewelry, and textile conservation, Elizabeth Duffy is a multidisciplinary artist whose compulsive process and love of material culture drive her to mine the revelatory in the ordinary. Her recent work examines the intersection of domestic life and surveillance. Her work is influenced by feminist art, an itinerant way of life, and looking at the overlooked.

Suzanne Gardinier

Suzanne Gardinier is the author of 12 books, including most recently Amérika: The Post-Election Malas (2017) & Notes from Havana (2016). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Manhattan.

Joy Garnett

Joy Garnett is an artist and writer from New York. She lives in Los Angeles where she’s writing a family memoir of Egypt. She is the art editor of Evergreen.

Robert Guffey

Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. Among other books, he is author of Until the Last Dog Dies (Night Shade/Skyhorse), a darkly satirical novel, and Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction and Homeland Security (OR Books), which Flavorwire called “by many miles the [year’s] weirdest and funniest book.”

Amir R. Hariri

Amir Hariri is an Iranian-born multi-disciplinary artist working in New York City. His work combines his professional background in design and engineering with his extensive studies in anatomy. Amir has exhibited nationally/internationally, with pieces included in public/private collections in the U.S., Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, and Japan. Recent awards include the Museum of Arts and Design and NARS Foundation residencies, Smack Mellon 'Hot Picks,' and the NYFA Fellowship.

Helsea Ikwanga

Born and raised in Malawi, Helsea Ikwanga started writing as far back as when he learnt to use English letters. His specialty has been restricted to the art of short story writing but he is open to the challenge of crafting longer and more sustained pieces of prose such as novels. In 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize edition, his story “How to Kill Refuji” was longlisted and highly recommended by international expert readers. Because his short story “A Song to Sing” was included among top 500 entries in the 2017 issue, the writer earned a right to attend 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Workshop in Lusaka, Zambia where he was mentored by renowned and experienced novelists: Damon Galgut (South Africa) and Ellen Banda-Aaku (Zambia). His work has also been published in domestic platforms such as The Nation and The Daily Times newspapers. He is a graduate of University of Malawi.

Joyce Johnson

Joyce Johnson’s best known book is the memoir Minor Characters, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983. Her other seven books include The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac, the memoir Missing Men, The Lies and Truths of the Sternberg Case, Door Wide Open, and In the Night Cafe and two earlier novels. She was the winner of a 1987 O’Henry Award and a 1992 NEA. She taught for many years in the MFA program at Columbia and the 92nd Street YMHA.

Bill Jones

Bill Jones was a seminal figure in the 1970s conceptual photography scene in Vancouver along with Ian Wallace, Christos Dikeakos, Jeff Wall, and Rodney Graham. Jones’s work engages urban, exurban and wilderness environments through analogue and digital photographic experimentation. His exhibitions include a mid-career retrospective at the International Center of Photography (NY). Jones lives and works in Los Angeles.

Weldon Kees

Weldon Kees (1914–1955?) published three books of verse during a career spent in New York and San Francisco. Ever since his car was found near the Golden Gate Bridge in July 1955, his work as a poet, painter, playwright, musician, and filmmaker continues to be recognized and rediscovered. For more writing by Weldon Kees: https://www.beatdom.com/layover-an-attempt-to-keep-a-journal-by-weldon-kees/.

Matt Lambert

Matt Lambert is a filmmaker, photographer and creative director working between Berlin, London, Paris and LA. He is also the artistic director of Singular Arts Group — an artist management company representing Mykki Blanco, Patrick Wolf and Finn Ronsdorf — as well as the co-founder of queer, xxx content-studio, Vitium.

Tucker Landesman

Tucker Landesman is a researcher and writer based in Berlin, Germany.

Devi S. Laskar

Devi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, winner of the 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South, and winner of the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. A native of Chapel Hill, N.C., she now lives in California with her family.

Thomas March

Thomas March is a poet, performer, and essayist. His collection Aftermath (2018) was selected by Joan Larkin for The Word Works Hilary Tham Capital Collection. His work has appeared in The Account, The Adroit Journal, OUT, and RHINO, among others. He is also the host of Poetry/Cabaret, a Broadway World Cabaret Award-nominated “variety salon.”

Christina McPhee

Across drawing, painting and video, Christina McPhee’s topographies set in motion kinetic ecologies, pre-linguistic writing, and a sense of place. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, International Center of Photography (NY), the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Thresholds New Media Collection, Scotland. Her 2021 exhibitions include Otherwise/Revival at Bridge Projects, LA. IG: @xtinamcphee

Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III

Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III teaches courses on Southeast Asian literature and creative writing at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman. He is the author of the novel Aklat ng mga Naiwan (Book of the Damned) (Balangiga, 2018) and co-edited and co-translated an upcoming volume of Wiji Thukul’s poems titled Balada ng Bala (The Ballad of a Bullet) (Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, 2020).

Marilyn Mugot

Marilyn Mugot is a photographer who hails from the Paris suburbs where she began drawing at an early age. Having joined a school of graphic design at the end of her adolescence, she soon found her love of photography supplanting her passion for drawing. She is passionate about cinema, and photography is a means for her to realise her own scenarios with atmospheres she invents and imagines. Her ethereal and saturated landscapes diverge from the everyday, constructing an entirely different reality.

Kimo Nelson

Kimo Nelson was born in Honolulu and grew up moving between the US, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and was an artist-in-residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited at venues that include Danese/Corey Gallery (NY), 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel (NY),Projekt722 (Brooklyn, NY), Disjecta (Portland, OR), and Chase Young Gallery (Boston, MA). Kimo lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Lewis Nkosi

Born in Durban in 1936, he died in Johannesburg in 2010, after an illustrious career as a print journalist, broadcaster, literary critic, novelist and writer across varied genres. His debut novel, Mating Birds, won the Macmillan International Pen Prize and featured in the New York Times’s list of 100 best books published in 1986.

Alongside journalists such as Can Themba, Bloke Modisane, Henry Nxumalo, Todd Matshikiza, Nat Nakasa, Es’kia Mphahlele and Casey Motsisi, he was part of a short-lived 50s black urban political and cultural renaissance in apartheid South Africa. In 1958 he assisted in the production of Athol Fugard’s play, No Good Friday, at the Bantu Men’s Social Centre in Johannesburg. In 1959, together with fellow Drum writer Bloke Modisane and American filmmaker Lionel Rogosin, he cowrote the script for Come Back Africa, featuring among others, Can Themba and Miriam Makeba. In 1971, his radio play, We Can’t All Be Martin Luther King, was broadcast on BBC Radio.

Lewis Nkosi wrote thunderously and fought a damn good fight for black people’s dignity in Africa and the African diaspora. After leaving South Africa in 1960 on a Nieman Fellowship Scholarship to study journalism at Harvard University on a one-way exit permit, he became one of the finest, most enduring and unforgettable critics of his generation.

Ju-Hyun Park

Ju-Hyun Park is a writer of the Korean diaspora. They live in unceded Lenape lands called Brooklyn. Their work has previously appeared in The Fader, Public Radio International, Out of Print, and the S/S 2020 issue of The Evergreen Review.

Lesego Rampolokeng

Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in Soweto, South Africa. He studied law but decided he was better suited to be an ungovernable disturber of the peace. Influenced by Black Consciousness during the 1970s and 1980s, he has become a political commentator through his poetry, plays, novels. He combines his own linguistic background and style of delivery with influences of rap and dub to create his own unique voice. He has produced eight books of poetry, two plays and three novels, and collaborated with visual artists, playwrights, filmmakers, theatre and opera producers, poets, and musicians. He is currently researching and writing on the work of the late Black Consciousness poet Mafika Gwala.

James Reidel

James Reidel is a poet and the biographer of Weldon Kees. His next book is Manon’s World: Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel.

Janet Remmington

Janet Remmington is a writer, researcher, and publisher. Born and raised in Johannesburg, she studied in Cape Town, London, Oxford, and York. Prior to the pandemic, she travelled widely. She has published creative and academic work in a range of venues. She was co-editor of Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present, which was awarded best edited collection by South Africa’s National Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences (2018). She is working on a book that surfaces and explores under-recognized literary histories of black South African travel and writing (1850–Present)

Karin Roffman

Karin Roffman is the author of two books: The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life (FSG, 2017), named one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books; and From the Modernist Annex (2010), winner of Alabama University Press's Manuscript Prize. She is the Primary Investigator on "John Ashbery's Nest" (2019). Currently Associate Director of Public Humanities at Yale, she is finishing full biographies of John Ashbery and the painter Jane Freilicher.

Luis Sahagun

Multi-disciplinary artist Luis Sahagun (b. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1982) produces painting, performance, and sculpture as acts of cultural reclamation. An immigrant and former laborer, he engages the aesthetics of relocation and transgenerational trauma through silicone, lumber, drywall, and concrete. Sahagun has exhibited his work at venues that include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The National Museum of Mexican Art, and the DePaul Art Museum (all in Chicago, IL), and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art (Roswell, NM).

Gary J. Shipley

Gary J. Shipley is the author of numerous books, including Bright Stupid Confetti (11:11 Press), 30 Fake Beheadings (Spork), Warewolff! (Hexus), and the monograph Stratagem of the Corpse: Dying with Baudrillard (Anthem). He has contributed to various magazines, anthologies, and journals. More information can be found at Thek Prosthetics.

Larry Siems

Larry Siems is a writer and human rights activist whose books include Between the Lines: Letters Between Undocumented Mexican and Central American Immigrants and Their Families and Friends and The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program. He is the chief of staff of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and a previous director of Freedom to Write programs at PEN. He is also Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s literary collaborator and editor.

Susan Silas

Susan Silas is a visual artist. She is interested in the way history intersects the personal and in how identity is formed. Her work examines the meaning of embodiment, the index in representation, and the evolution of our understanding of the self. She focuses on the aging body, gender roles, the fragility of sentient being and the potential outcome of the creation of idealized selves through new technologies.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. His family moved to the capital of Nouakchott when he was a child, where he attended school and earned a scholarship to study electrical engineering in Germany. In 2001, he was living and working in Mauritania when he was renditioned to Jordan without trial, beginning an ordeal that he would chronicle in Guantánamo Diary. The manuscript, which he wrote in his isolation cell in Guantánamo Bay, remained classified for almost eight years and was finally released, with substantial redactions, in 2013. After fifteen years of detention, Mohamedou was released on October 17th, 2016 to Mauritania. The following year he published a “restored edition” of Guantánamo Diary, and in February 2021 his first novel, The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga.

Julia Solis

Julia Solis organizes events in abandoned spaces and sometimes photographs these for publications or exhibitions. Her most recent book is Capsule Out Of Time on dioramas of decay in West Virginia. More of her work can be found at darkpassage.com / @sunkenpalace

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone is author of five books, most recently Everything is Personal, Notes on Now (Scuppernong Editions, January 2020) and My Life as an Animal, Stories (Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Press, 2016). She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She has published numerous stories in such publications as n + 1, Waxwing, Tin House, Electric Lit, Fence, Open City, Your impossible Voice,  and Creative Nonfiction. Her next book will be Postcards from the Thing that is Happening, a collage of hybrid narratives. .

Celina Su

Celina Su’s writing includes a book of poetry, Landia, as well as two chapbooks, three books on civil society and social policy, and pieces in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and elsewhere. She is the Gittell Chair in Urban Studies at the City University of New York.

Moses Sun

Seattle-based artist Moses Sun creates analog, digital, and mixed media art. Sun draws much of his inspiration from his southern upbringing along with Black, African, Asian, and Latinx diasporas. He blends these influences into abstract meditative constellations of movement expressed on paper, wood, and large scale murals. Sun’s work has been shown in both solo and group shows in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle.

Nathan Tempey

Nathan Tempey is a writer. His work has appeared in Vice, The Outline, the New York Daily News, Gothamist, and elsewhere. Raised in Saginaw, Michigan, he now lives in New York City. Nathan also works as a criminal defense investigator.

Tromarama

Tromarama is an art collective founded in 2006 by Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans and Ruddy Hatumena. Engaging with the notion of hyperreality in the digital age, their projects explore the interrelationship between the virtual and the physical world. Their works often combine video, installations, computer programming and public participation depicting the influence of digital media on the society perception towards their surroundings. They live and work between Jakarta and Bandung.

Ken Weaver

Ken Weaver is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His paintings, drawings and photography focus on trauma in all of its manifestations. Weaver’s Dreamweapon series is an attempt to pull back the flesh, exposing the brutal underbelly of today's psychotic/neurotic parts of American culture: the artist’s own American exorcism.

Mathew Weitman

Mathew Weitman is a Brooklyn-based poet, musician, and writer. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Southwest Review, New South, LIT, Unbroken, and more. He received his MFA from The New School and releases original music under the monikers Hotels on Mars and Sqwks.

Dan Wynn

An award winning mid century photographer and film director, Dan Wynn is known for his photographs of personalities, fashion, travel, and food. For more than forty-five years, virtually every prestigious magazine including Esquire, New York, Travel & Leisure, Seventeen, Time, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Mccall's and Women's Day called upon him. His well-known covers appeared on record albums and international magazines and books (sometimes with himself as his model).

John Yau

John Yau has two books forthcoming. Omnidawn will publish Genghis Chan on Drums and Lund Humphries will issue his monograph on the Chinese artist, Liu Xiaodong in the fall of 2021. He was the 2018 recipient of the Jackson Prize in poetry. He continues to live in New York City.