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Hala Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the forthcoming novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Lit Hub, The New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, where she works as a clinical psychologist.

Elizabeth Bruenig is an American author currently writing for The Atlantic, where her interests include 'covering dangerous liaisons at Yale Law School, the trouble with "innocentric" death penalty activism, and the mystery illness that felled mid-Atlantic songbirds just as COVID-19 looked as though it might relent.'

Dodie Bellamy a novelist, poet, and essayist who has published many books and a handful of chapbooks. She specializes in genre-bending work that focuses on feminism, sexuality, cultural artifacts both high and low, and all things queer. She champions the vulnerable, the fractured, the disenfranchized, the fucked-up, and believes the spiritual and the political can be found in the most unlikely places. 'I love the essay as a form for I feel it can encompass everything; it's the closest prose can get to poetry without mimicking it.''