is the author of the novelJavascotia(Penguin UK). His short stories and essays have appeared inThe Guardian, London Times, Mirror, Electric Literature, Long Reads, Puerto Del Sol, The Junction, Belle Ombre, Qwerty, Sundress, Thirty-Two, Cottonwood,andEvansville Review.He has taught at the Loft Literary Center. He holds a BA from the University of St. Thomas and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.

is the author of the memoirBurying the Typewriter(Picador), the essay collectionPoetry and the Language of Opression(Oxford University), and the poetry collectionsTime Being,Lillies from America,Releasing the Porcelain Birds,The House of Straw(all Shearsman Books), andCrossing the Carpathians(Carcanet Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in theIrish Times,Harvard Review,International Literature Quarterly,Nieman Storyboard, and the anthologiesCentres of Catacylsm(Bloodaxe Books),See How I Land(Heaven Tree Press), andPenguin’s Poems for Life(Penguin). She has taught at Grand Valley State University, the University of Fribourg, the Geneva Writers’ Group, and Oxford University. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan, an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, and a Master’s and Ph.D, both in English Literature, from Oxford University.

is the author of the memoirBrother One Cell(Viking). His nonfiction has appeared in theNew York Times Magazine,Washington Post,The Daily Beast,Salon,The Rumpus,The Sonora Review,World Hum,Current Biography, andPenthouse. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and the National Geographic channel and has taught at NYU. He holds a BA from Binghamton University.

has published nonfiction inYalabusha Review, Willow Review, Forge,and theSanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine. Her short stories have appeared inNew Orleans Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Portland Review,andHawaii Pacific Review.She has taught at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. She holds a BA from City University, Richmond College, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School.

is the author of the novelQuizzleboon(Perpetual Motion Machine Press), the short story collectionThe Love Box(Livingston Press), and the novellaWar of the Crazies(Main Street Rag). His short stories have appeared in appeared inSouthern Cultures Magazine,American Short Fiction, New World Writing,andTexas Review.He has taught at Florida State University, the University of Mississippi, and the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference. He holds a BA and an MA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi.

is the author of the poetry collectionsCool LimboandDaddy(NYQ Books) and editor of the Lambda Finalist essay anthologyMy Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them(University of Wisconsin Press). His poetry has appeared inNorth American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Court Green,andLos Angeles Review. He holds a BA from Hofstra University, an MFA from the New School, and an MA from San Francisco State University, all in Creative Writing and Literature.

is the author of the nonfiction bookAirplane Mode(Catapault, forthcoming), and the translator of the novelJasmine Days, for which she and the author Benyamin won the JCB Prize, India's most valuable prize for literature. Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared inThe New Yorkeronline,Creative Nonfiction,Agni,Brevity,The Guardian, andAfar. She has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and her work has been cited in theBest American Essaysseries. She holds a BA from Mahatma Gandhi University, an MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi, and an MA in Media Studies from the New School.