Yousef Kadoura, born in the midwestern United States and raised in Ottawa, is a Lebanese Canadian actor, writer, producer, as well as a right leg below knee amputee. Yousef is a graduate of the acting program at the National Theatre School of Canada. He has worked as the curator in residence at Tangled Art + […]
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Adrian Todd Zuniga is the author of the debut novel, Collision Theory (Rare Bird Books, 2018), a Foreword Indies Finalist for Fiction and a St. Louis Post-Dispatch best-seller. He’s the host and creator of Literary Death Match, now featured in over 60 cities worldwide, and host of LDM Book Report on YouTube. A WGA Award-nominated screenwriter, he co-wrote Madden NFL […]
Dr. Shanita Brown is a Subject Matter Expert for the AAKOMA Project and a board certified licensed professional counselor, speaker, adjunct professor and trainer that fosters transformative and empowering dialogue about various forms of intimate partner violence – particularly, Black teens and women – and mental health wellness. She is a trauma specialist with over […]
Sophia Benoit, comedian and author of Well, This is Exhausting, along with writing sex and relationship advice for GQ and an advice newsletter on Substack called Here’s The Thing.
Tziporah (Tzippy) Cohen was born and raised in New York and spent eighteen years in Boston before landing in Toronto, where she now lives with her husband, three kids, two cats and one dog. Tzippy studied French and theater arts at Cornell University, where she was one of a handful of chimesmasters who performed concerts […]
Shadi Bartsch is the founding Director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago and the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics. She has authored and edited some 12 books on antiquity. Her new translation of Vergil’s Aeneid was issued by Random House in 2021 and a study of the reception of […]
Ryan Gattis (ryangattis.com) is the author of Safe, Kung Fu High School, The System, and All Involved—which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Lire Award for Noir of the Year (France), and has been named one of the all-time “13 Most Essential L.A. Crime Books” (L.A. Times, 2023). He lives and writes in […]
Chris Hedges spent nearly two decades reporting in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. After fifteen years at the New York Times, he now writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig. His bestselling books include America, the Farewell Tour, Empire of Illusion, Death of the Liberal Class and his classic […]
Lee Randall is an American living in Scotland. She’s worked in trade publishing and journalism, and now works as a freelance writer, editor, book festival programmer and interviewer.
Craig Geraghty* was born and raised in Woodside, Queens. He and his wife Maureen are raising their 11 month-old baby Francis Kathleen there. Starting his entertainment career in stand-up comedy, Craig eventually found his way into acting. He has made his own films, has been seen in national commercials and led campaigns for brands including […]
Willy Vlautin, born and raised in Reno, Nevada, has published six novels, The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, The Free, Don’t Skip Out On Me and The Night Always Comes. Both The Motel Life and Lean on Pete have been turned into major motion pictures. Vlautin also founded the band, Richmond Fontaine and the […]
Allison Durazzi transitioned her career in marketing and policy to doctoral studies in rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University. She researches technical editing with a focus on conscious language and she teaches technical and business communication courses. Durazzi served on the board of numerous literary arts nonprofits, including UNECSO Seattle City of Literature, and […]
Dr. Tad Tuleja, Ph.D., is a folklorist with particular interests in ethnicity, stereotyping, conspiracy theories and popular culture. Tuleja was educated at Yale, the University of Sussex and the University of Texas at Austin, where his doctoral dissertation examined the mass media “othering” of Mexico in the 1920s. As a songwriter, he received a development grant […]
Dr. Brendan Fay, Ph.D., is the Associate Professor of Library Management at Emporia State University, with broad interests in the function of information within closed societies, with a special focus on Nazi Germany. Fay’s research examines the role of conspiracy theories in helping bring the Nazis to power, consolidating rule and radicalizing policy over the […]
Will Aitken‘s most recent novel, The Swells, will be appear in January 2021. His previous novels include Realia, A Visit Home and Terre Haute. He has published two works of non-fiction, Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic and Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove and the Art of Resistance, which was […]
Ann Dixon serves on the board of Friends of the Homer Library and helps to operate BOB (Books On Board) the Bookmobile, after many years as a librarian in Alaska. As one of a team of volunteer drivers and bookmobile librarians, she is fulfilling a longstanding dream of bringing books directly to children in underserved […]
Katherine E. Browne, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Colorado State University. Her work as a disaster anthropologist began in the aftermath of Katrina in St. Bernard Parish, where she followed the lurching recovery of a large African American family. That work led first to the documentary film Still Waiting: Life After […]
Divya M. Persaud is a planetary geologist, writer, composer and speaker. She is a postdoctoral scholar supporting missions to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and has been completing her Ph.D. at University College London, where she is applying 3D imagery to probe Mars geology. Divya has spoken and worked internationally on issues surrounding the historic and […]
Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and a contributing writer for The New Yorker.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a non-binary femme disabled writer of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician Romani ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine books, including (with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival, Tonguebreaker, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Bodymap. A Lambda Award winner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle […]
Dr. Betty Lai is an Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology at Boston College. Dr. Lai’s research focuses on how children and families respond to disasters and other traumatic stressors. Dr. Lai’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. […]
Andrew Jorgenson is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Professor of Environmental Studies at Boston College. He conducts research on the human dimensions of environmental change, with a focus on how development, inequality and the structure of global production, and trade networks contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, industrial pollution, land cover change and relationships between environmental […]
Sarah Lamb is Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on aging, gender, families, ethical strivings and understandings of personhood in India and the United States. Her several books include White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India; and Successful Aging as a […]
Dr. Hanna Garth is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. She has published articles in several academic journals, including American Anthropologist; Food, Culture and Society, Social Science and Medicine; and Anthropological Quarterly. Her first book, Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, is based on ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, the […]
