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ubah cristina ali farah is a Somali Italian author and poet. Born in Verona, she grew up in Mogadishu and returned to Italy at the start of the civil war in Somalia. Her short stories and poems have appeared in many Italian and international newspapers, journals, and collections, and she is the recipient of several prestigious literary awards. She is the author of three novels: Madre piccola (translated into English as Little Mother), Il comandante del fiume, and Le stazioni della luna. She currently lives in Brussels.

saraha audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont.

louis herbert battalen’s work is found at the confluence of agriculture and social justice in the field and with the pen. His writings have appeared in the Natural Farmer, the poetry collection 5—Minute Pieces, and most recently in the Anarcho-Syndicalist Review. A fellowship from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection has enabled him to compile and edit the collected writings of Juanita Morrow Nelson, which will include a short biography of her that he is writing to be titled From Rags to Rags With Not Much In Between and for which he is seeking a publisher.

brandon michael cleverly breen is a third-year doctoral student at the University of Cagliari in Philological-Literary and Historical-Cultural Studies. His doctoral dissertation focuses on contemporary literature in the United States by Ethiopian American authors. He previously graduated from the University of Padua with a thesis on Italian postcolonial literature. As a writer he has published the short stories “Storielle di mio nonno” (Historica edizioni) and “Cronache di un padovano insolito” (Terre di mezzo editore).

saura brueck is professor of South Asian and comparative literatures, and the co-director of the Race, Caste, and Colorism Project at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She is the author of Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (Columbia University Press) and the translator of Unclaimed Terrain: Stories by Ajay Navaria (Navayana), as well as the co-editor of several volumes on Indian sound studies, gender and the vernacular in Indian literature, and Dalit literature in translation. She is currently co-editing the Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literatures and writing a book on Indian detective fictions tentatively titled Indian Pulp: The Local and the Global in Indian Detective Fictions.

sumita chakraborty is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books [US]/Carcanet Press [UK]), which received coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian. She is currently writing a scholarly book, Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene, which is under an advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press. The recipient of honors from the Poetry Foundation, the Forward Arts Foundation, and Kundiman, she is assistant professor of English and creative writing at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

nayereh doosti is a writer and translator from Shiraz and Booshehr. She graduated from Amherst College and holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University. She is the recipient of the William Faulkner Literary Competition Short Story Prize, Epiphany Magazine Breakout 8 Writers Prize, the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, and a GrubStreet Literary Grant. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, The Common Magazine, and Nowruz Journal, among others. Her Persian translation of Aleksander Hemon’s The Book of My Lives will be published by Goman Press in Tehran in September 2023. She is currently working on a PhD in Middle Eastern languages and cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.

denise duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.

m.k. foster is a poet, gothic horror writer, historian...