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Tobi Ogundiran is the author of the short story collection Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic and the upcoming In the Shadow of the Fall. He has been nominated for British Science Fiction Association, Nommo, and Shirley Jackson awards. His short fiction has been featured on the podcast LeVar Burton Reads but also appears in journals such as Lightspeed, The Magazine … Continued

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by the Adroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. Along … Continued

January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Rewilding, Misery Islands, and Underlife, all published by CavanKerry Press. The former executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, she currently serves on AWP’s board of directors. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” was a co-winner … Continued

Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author, most … Continued

Bea Setton was born in France and has lived in Paris, Colombia, the US, and Berlin, the city that inspired her debut novel, Berlin. She studied at Cambridge for a master’s in philosophy and theology, which gave her the idea for her second book, Plaything, to be published this June. Setton currently lives in Oxford, where … Continued