Emily Franklin is the author of more than twenty novels including The Lioness of Boston, about the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her award-winning work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Guernica, JAMA, and numerous literary magazines as well as featured and read aloud on NPR and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Christa Fraser received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a residency from the MacDowell Colony. She grew up in the farmlands of California’s Central Valley and considers as her home the beaches and mountains of the state’s Central Coast. She is currently at work on a novel.

Omer Friedlander’s debut story collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, won the American Jewish Library’s 2023 Fiction Award and is a short-list finalist for the Wingate Prize, the only UK literary award to recognize authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Nicole Krauss lauds the collection as, “A beautiful debut by a deeply humane writer.” Kirin Desai calls the stories “[as] outrageously funny as they are outrageously tender… A spectacular collection," and Rebecca Makkai hails Friedlander as “a marvelous new voice, bringing magic, chance, and surprise. I’d follow this writer anywhere.” Bestselling author Anthony Marra offers this praise: “In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov.”

Omer Friedlander received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, England, and an MFA from Boston University. His short stories have won numerous awards, and have been published in the United States, Canada, France, and Israel. Friedlander’s first novel, The Glass Golem, is forthcoming from Random House.

Samuel W. Gailey is the author of Deep Winter, which The New York Times described as "beautifully written" and Esquire called “enthralling and suspenseful." Gailey's second novel, The Guilt We Carry, was released by Oceanview Publishing in 2019.

Ramin Ganeshran, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the executive director of the acclaimed Westport Museum for History & Culture in Westport, CT. She received the Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History, the 2022/23 Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a 2024 Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship. Her work studying networks of enslaved cooks has been supported by a Mars Wrigley’s American Heritage Chocolate Grant. She has written about food, food history, and foodways for The New York Times, New York Newdsay, The Washington Post, Epicurious, and others. She is a seven-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalist Award, a finalist for the IACP Bert Greene Award, and the author of a 2015 IACP award winner, Future Chefs: Recipes by Tomorrow’s Cooks Across the Nation and the World.

John Gapper is a multi-award-winning business columnist at the Financial Times, and formerly chief business commentator; his award-winning column focusses on finance, media and technology. He also contributes editorials and features, including regular Lunch with the FT interviews.

He is one of the FT’s most senior and influential writers, having covered the financial and media industries, as well as employment issues. Between 2005 and 2012, he was based in the FT’s New York office, where he helped to lead its successful expansion in the US. He was formerly comment editor of the FT, and in that role was in charge of introducing and editing the paper’s award-winning comment page.

As a columnist, he has written on topics including Wall Street and the aftermath of the financial crisis, management and corporate strategy, the future of digital news and entertainment, innovation and venture capital, and the disruptive impact of technology.

He often appears on television and radio, including on the BBC, CNBC and CNN.

John won an open scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to study at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He lives in east London with his wife, the novelist Rosie Dastgir, and their two daughters.

Glòria Gasch Brosa (Barcelona, 1973) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University ofBarcelona. For more than twenty years, she has worked as an editor in various publishing houses. In 2019, in Buenos Aires, the seed of her first novel, Now, and Every Tomorrow, was planted—a tribute to the epistolary genre and, of course, to the sea.

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Nelson George is an award-winning author, filmmaker, television producer and critic with a long career in analyzing and presenting diverse elements of African-American culture. His books have been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Before Columbus Foundation. As a filmmaker, George was a producer on the Emmy Award-winning The Chris Rock Show (HBO) and executive producer of the highly rated American Gangster crime series (BET). He directed Queen Latifah to a Golden Globe in the HBO film Life Support, which he also co-wrote, and was a writer/producer on The Get Down (Netflix); he does most of his work through his production company, Urban Romances.

Alicja Gescinska is an award-winning Polish-Belgian philosopher and novelist, and a leading public intellectual in Belgium and the Netherlands. She has held academic positions at various institutions, including Ghent University, Princeton University and Amherst College, and is currently the course director of the Philosophy programme at Buckingham University. Her book De verovering van de vrijheid (The Conquest of Liberty) was awarded the Mens.nu Prize for the best non-fiction book of 2011.

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Meghan Gilliss is a former bookseller and graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars as well as the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. Her work has been published in Salamander, The Rattling Wall, Nat. Brut, and fields magazine, among others. Her first novel LUNGFISH published by Catapult in 2022.

Nicky Gonzalez is a writer from Hialeah, Florida. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, BOMB Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Taco Bell Quarterly, and other publications. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Granum Foundation, Millay Arts, Lighthouse Works, and the Hambidge Center. Her debut novel MAYRA and short story collection SWALLOWING THE SPIDER are forthcoming from Random House.

Sara Goudarzi’s non-fiction, poetry, and translations have appeared in Scientific American, The New York Times, and National Geographic News. The Almond in the Apricot is her first novel.

Andrew J. Graff is the author of the novel, Raft of Stars (Ecco - HarperCollins Publishers, March 2021). His fiction and essays have appeared in Image and Dappled Things. Andrew grew up fishing, hiking, and hunting in Wisconsin's Northwoods. After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Graff earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Ohio and teaches at Wittenberg University.

Greenfeld's award-winning writing has appeared in publications such as Harper's, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ, and in anthologies including Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Sports Writing, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Best Creative Nonfiction. He is currently a writer for the television show Ray Donovan.

Sunetra Gupta is the author of the novels Memories of Rain, The Glassblower’s Breath, A Sin of Color (shortlisted for the Orange Prize), Moonlight into Marzipan, and, most recently, So Good in Black (Clockroot).

Minrose Gwin is the author of the memoir Wishing for Snow and the novels The Queen of Palmyra, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Book, a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; Promise, which was an Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction; and The Accidentals, which was awarded the Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters 2020 Fiction Award.

Lise Haines is the author of the novels Girl in the Arena (Bloomsbury), a South Carolina Book Award Nominee; Small Acts of Sex and Electricity (Unbridled Books), a Book Sense Pick in 2006 and one of ten "Best Book Picks for 2006" by the NPR station, San Diego; and, In My Sister's Country (Penguin / Putnam), a finalist for the 2003 Paterson Fiction Prize, which The Boston Globe called "an authoritative fictional debut."

Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee and she is the recipient of the Best Fiction award from the Southern California Writers Conference, a Writing by Writers Emerging Voices fellowship, and a Hedgebrook residency. Her debut novel Hula is forthcoming from Scribner.

Nancy Hale, 1908-1988, was a prolific and best-selling novelist whose short fiction appeared frequently in the New Yorker and other publications.

Meredith Hall is the author of the critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir Without a Map (Beacon Press). At the age of forty-four, Meredith Hall graduated from Bowdoin College. She won the $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation, which gave her the financial freedom to devote time to her first book. Her other honors include a Pushcart Prize and notable essay recognition in Best American Essays; she was also a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Award. Hall’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Southern Review, Five Points, Prairie Schooner, and several anthologies. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Maine.

A.B. Hamilton is a fantasy writer from south London. A school teacher by trade, he spends his free time crafting rich stories that explore themes of identity and belonging. His favourite authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, N.K. Jemisin, and Ted Chiang. He is an advocate for men’s mental health and supports increased inclusivity and representation across all levels of the publishing industry.

Brooks Hansen is a novelist, screenwriter, and illustrator. He is the author nine books, including novels both for adults and young readers. His first novel, The Chess Garden, was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his novel John the Baptist. His new novel is The Unknown Woman of the Seine (Delphinium Books, 2021).

George Harrar is the author of the novels The Spinning Man (Putnam) and Reunion at Red Paint Bay (Other Press), as well as many beloved children’s novels, including The Wonder Kid and Not As Crazy As I Seem (Houghton Mifflin).

Karen Havelin is a writer and translator from Bergen, Norway. She attended Skrivekunst-akademiet i Hordaland, and has a Bachelor’s degree in French, Literature, and Gender Studies from the University of Bergen and University of Paris Sorbonne. She completed her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in May 2013. Her work has been published both in Norwegian and in English. Her first novel, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully was published simultaneously in the US, the UK and Norway in spring 2019, from Dottir Press, Dead Ink Books and Cappelen Damm (norsk tittel Les pakningsvedlegget nøye), and it was also translated into Catalan (Angle Editorial).

Before turning his hand to writing, James Hazel was a lawyer in private practice specialising in corporate and commercial litigation and employment law. He was an equity partner in a regional law firm and held a number of different department headships until he quit legal practice to pursue his dream of becoming an author. He has a keen interest in criminology and a passion for crime thrillers, indie music and all things retro. James lives on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with his wife and three children.

Cheryl A. Head is based in Washington, DC and is the author of the two-time Lambda Literary Award-nominated Charlie Mack Motown mysteries; Time’s Undoing is her first standalone novel. Head is a member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Authors of America, Sisters in Crime, and a member of the Bouchercon Board of Directors.

Jacqueline Holland received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

Michelle Hoover is the author of the acclaimed novel The Quickening (Other Press) as well as the novel Bottomland (Grove/Atlantic). She has been a Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the 2005 PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction.

Angela Palm Hopkins is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. In praise of Riverine, bestselling author Leslie Jamison wrote, “her gorgeous candor sings urgently through these pages, her prose a tuning fork offering frequencies I’d never heard before.” In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raved, “Combining lyrical prose with a haunting narrative, she recounts a story filled with secret longings, family history, and musings on what might have been... this is a memoir to linger over, savor, and study.” She is at work on an essay collection, The Builder’s Sacrifice.

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A former US Representative for New York’s third congressional district, Congressman Steve Israel has also served as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee since 2010. He served on the Huntington, New York town board before being elected to Congress in 2001.

Naseem Jamnia is a 2019 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat Fellow and freelance writer and editor, with an MS in Biological Sciences. Their nonfiction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan and other sites, and they were the 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology. A native Chicagoan and child to Iranian immigrants, Naseem lives with their husband, dog, and two cats in Reno, Nevada, where they're getting their MFA in Fiction.

Sativa January holds an MFA in fiction from New York University, where she received a Veterans Writing Workshop fellowship. At NYU, she taught poetry and fiction, served as a fiction editor for Washington Square Review, and led writing workshops for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review,Rattle magazine, The International Journal of Transitional Justice and elsewhere. She is working on a novel.

When Genevieve Jenner was six years old, she liked to play dress up, write stories, and wanted to be a mermaid. She has finally accepted that being a mermaid isn't the most secure career option but the other two things have remained constant. Her debut story collection, CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR IMAGINARY LIVES, is shortlisted for the 2023 UK Guild of Food Writers’ Award in the Best First Book category.

Claire Jiménez is a Puerto Rican writer who grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. She is the author of the short story collection Staten Island Stories (Johns Hopkins Press, 2019), which received the 2019 Hornblower Award for a first book from the New York Society Library, was named a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards, a New York Public Library Favorite Book about New York, and Best Latino Book of 2019 by NBC News. She received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in Remezcla, Afro-Hispanic Review, PANK, The Rumpus, el roommate, Eater, District Lit, The Toast and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.

Laurence Jones was born and raised in London. His short stories have been published in literary journals including Storgy, New Zenith Magazine and Collages, as well as the forthcoming Seven Hills Review, Sanctuary and Impermanent Facts anthologies. He has been shortlisted/longlisted for multiple literary prizes including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and TLC’s Pen Factor.

Shane Jones is the author of three previous novels, Light Boxes, Daniel Fights a Hurricane, and Crystal Eaters, and several smaller works of fiction and poetry. Light Boxes was an NPR Best Book of the Year, translated into ten languages, and optioned for film by Spike Jonze; Crystal Eaters was named a “50 Best Fabulist Books Everyone Should Read” and “50 Best Genre-Bending Books Everyone Should Read” (Flavorwire). His work has appeared in hundreds of journals in print and online, including The Paris Review Daily, VICE, The Believer Logger, Tin House, The Millions, Dazed Digital, The Rumpus, BOMB, Salon, and DIAGRAM. His newest novel Vincent and Alice and Alice is out now from Tyrant Books.

Amy Jones's first novel, We're All in This Together, was a national bestseller, won the Northern Lit Award, was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and named a "Best Book of the Year" by the Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire. Her debut collection of stories, What Boys Like, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was a finalist for the ReLit Award. Her fiction has won the CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, and been selected as Longform's Pick of the Week. Originally from Halifax, she lived in Thunder Bay for many years before moving to Toronto.

Peter de Jonge is co-author of three James Patterson books, including the number one New York Times bestselling thrillers Beach Road and The Beach House, and author of the novels Shadows Still Remain and Buried On Avenue B (HarperCollins).

Leah Kaminsky is poetry and fiction editor at the Medical Journal of Australia. She conceived and edited Writer, M.D., an anthology of contemporary doctor-writers. She is the author of We’re All Going to Die, the award-winning poetry collection Stitching Things Together, and collaborated on the number one Amazon bestseller Cracking the Code. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Ratika Kapur's most recent work is the acclaimed novel The Private Life of Mrs Sharma. Her earlier novel, Overwinter, was longlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize. Kapur lives in New Delhi with her husband and son.

John Kenney is the author of two novels and four books of poetry. His first novel, Truth In Advertising, won the Thurber Prize for American humor, beating out David Letterman. It was a Starred Review by Booklist, Library Journal, and Kirkus. He is also the author of Talk To Me, also a starred Kirkus review. Love Poems for Married People, based on a humor piece Kenney wrote for The New Yorker, was a New York Times Bestseller and a finalist for the Thurber Prize. He is a long-time contributor to The New Yorker Magazine’s Shouts & Murmurs. He lives in Larchmont with his wife, Lissa, and two children, whose names currently escape him.

Sunnah Khan is a multi-talented Scottish Pakistani poet, creative facilitator and filmmaker living in London. Her debut pamphlet I Don't Know How to Forgive You When You Make No Apology For This Haunting was published by Roughtrade Books in 2020.

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In 2021 she won a commission to reimagine Scottish myth for Historic Environment Scotland, she wrote and performed a piece in collaboration with a classical dancer and sitar player and collaborated with a perfumer on an immersive performance guided by smell for Winter Notes at Chiswick House. She was awarded funding to run 6 weeks of workshops with teenage survivors of sexual violence by Women of the World Festival and ran this with the support of clinical psychologists. She put the groups work together into a film which was showcased at Shameless Festival at Battersea Arts Centre alongside a panel discussion on reclaiming the lost voice in therapeutic space.

She is part of the poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE. The collective came together in 2017 and has been published with Femzine (2018) and Roughtrade Books (2020) as well as taken a 5 star sell out show to the Edinburgh Fringe.  The collective have opened for T.S Eliot prize winner Roger Robinson at Stoke Newington Literary Festival (2019), performed and responded to the Tate's winter commission (2020), performed at the British Library (2020), London Literary Festival (2021), commissioned to create work for Quentin Blake Exhibition at The Foundling Musuem (2021) , performed at festivals including Byline & Prima Donna and were featured in Vogue UK last year.

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Sunnah is also a writer and freelance documentary director and producer having worked across the BBC and Channel 4 in production and development from Dispatches - Born Homeless, BBC Two’s Generation Gifted  to developing shows for Amazon, and Vice Studios and most recently working on a high profile national charity campaign on suicide prevention. She is currently working on her debut novel.

Catherine Kim is at work on a collection of short stories based on the history of treatment for diseases developed by physicians over two centuries, told from the perspective of the women, children, and families who, knowingly or not, served as experimental subjects for the cures. She is also writing a historical novel based on the 1865 trial of Mary Harris, the nineteen-year daughter of poor Irish immigrants, who shot her lover. In a trial that was a national sensation, her attorneys argued her innocence with a novel defense, Paroxysmal Moral Insanity: that is, she was menstruating.

Catherine is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, where she specializes in obstetrics and gynecoloy. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Yume Kitasei is the speculative fiction author of the award-winning The Deep Sky listed as one of the 10 best SFF novels of 2023 by The Washington Post. She is half-Japanese and half-American and grew up in a space between two cultures -- the same space where her stories reside, find out more at yumekitasei.com.

Dana Kletter is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a was Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won Hopwood prizes in both Short Fiction and Novel. Her work has appeared in The Sun, Michigan Quarterly Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere. She is also a musician, with releases on Mammoth, Hannibal, Interscope, and Rykodisc records. She is at work on a memoir, Dear Enemy.

Alyssa Knickerbocker is the author of the novella Your Rightful Home. Her short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Meridian, and The Best of the West 2011. She held the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville. Knickerbocker earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received the David and Jean Milofsky Prize in fiction.

A University of Michigan graduate, Koslowski holds an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Fiction from the University of South Carolina. His fiction has been published in Blue Mesa Review, Front Porch Journal, and Amazon’s Day One. Koslowski lives with his wife in Columbia, South Carolina.

Nancy Kress is the bestselling author of more than thirty science-fiction and fantasy novels and novellas. Kress is a six-time Nebula Award winner, including two consecutive awards for her novellas After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall and Yesterday’s Kin. She is also the recipient of the Sturgeon and Campbell awards, as well as two Hugo awards. Her fiction has been translated into nearly two dozen languages, including Klingon. Kress teaches writing at workshops, including Clarion West and Taos Toolbox, as well as at the University of Leipzig in Germany, as a guest professor. Kress lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, the author Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.

Snorri Kristjansson is an Icelander living in Edinburgh. He is a writer of books, films and plays, as well as a drama teacher for a secondary school. Among his many odd "achievements" in life, he's variously: Taught Icelandic to the British Ambassador; Appeared on Sky News to explain the banking crash; Performed stand-up comedy in various venues across the UK and other countries, including (but not limited to) a boxing ring, a barn and a warship; Written a BA thesis on himself; and taught roughly 9000 people to pronounce Eyafjallajökull and various other things of a similar nature. He is the author of five novels.

A former professor of history at Carthage College, Kuhn has written extensively about the British monarchy and Victorian high politics.

Gene Kwak is the author of two chapbooks: Orphans Burning Orphans available from Greying Ghost Press and a self-titled collection available from Awst Press. He has published fiction and nonfiction both in print and online in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Wigleaf, Paper Darts, Redivider, Hobart, Electric Literature. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and his debut novel, Go Home, Ricky! is forthcoming from The Overlook Press in 2021.

Eugenia Ladra (1992, Uruguay) holds a Master's degree in degree in Literary Creation from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and is the author of the short story plaquettes La naturaleza de la muerte (2019) and El espacio podría sonar así (2020). She is part of the anthology Nuevasemergencias (Candaya, 2023). Her first novel, Carnada, will be published in 2024 by Criatura in Uruguay and Tránsito in Spain.

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Andrew Lam is the web editor of New America Media, a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and NPR’s All Things Considered, and author of the essay collection East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres (Heyday) and the short story collections Birds of Paradise Lost (Red Hen Press) and PEN Open Book Award–winner Perfume Dreams (Heyday).

Robert Lanza, MD is one of the most respected scientists in the world. Lanza is head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was recognized by TIME magazine in 2014 on its list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World." Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic-cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning). In 2001 he was also the first to clone an endangered species, and recently published the first-ever report of pluripotent stem cell use in humans. He is the author of three nonfiction books, most recently <i>The Grand Biocentric Design</i>.

Jen Lazar is at work on a multi-generational family memoir about migration, postage stamps, and alchemy, in which she tracks her great-grandfather's journey from his escape from the Jewish ghetto in Iran to his fabulously successful trading-stamp empire, which was his family legacy. The memoir travels from revolutionary Tehran in the 1910s, to Paris at the rise of WWII, to the New York building boom and the occult in Europe in the 1960s. Along the way, postage stamps are traded in street markets, hidden under floor boards, printed in basements, and exchanged for the family's freedom in America.

Lazar is the winner of the Ploughshares 2023 Emerging Writer's Contest. She received her Masters of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University. She lives in Burington Vermont.

Samuel Leader holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Philosophy and Modern Languages from Oxford. He was a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He is working on a novel entitled The Trial of Monsieur Pascal.

As the steward of her father’s legacy, Shannon Lee serves as the CEO of the Bruce Lee Family Company and the chairperson of the Bruce Lee Foundation. Her mission is to provide access to her father’s philosophy and life through education and entertainment. She is the author of Be Water My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee (Flatiron Books). An in-demand speaker, she has spoken at TED, TEDx, Creative Mornings, among others. Shannon is the co-creator and host of the Bruce Lee Podcast, the executive producer of Cinemax’s Warrior series also based off of a treatment written by Bruce Lee, and is now working on GUARDIAN OF THE SCROLL, aYA duology, with award winning fantasy and science fiction author, Fonda Lee.

Ashley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University and has published fiction and essays in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, The Atlas Review, and Fourteen Hills. In 2015, she co-founded Transit Books, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature, and her debut novel Immediate Family was published in 2021 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.