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I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. (6/27/70), to Kathryn A. Gibbs and Winston P.A. Ebanks. I seemed to excel in school, played high school football, was a former employee… More

Jameel Jaffer directed the National Security Project from 2007-2010 and is currently the Director of the ACLU’s Center for Democracy. He has litigated cases concerning the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program, the Foreign… More

Janne Teller is a critically acclaimed Danish novelist of Austrian-German family background. Her literature, that also includes short stories and essays, and always circles around existential and ethical questions of life… More

Besides my award-winning essay “Feeling(s) Cheated,” I am the author of one full-length science fiction novel, Storm Holding (unpublished), dozens of wide-ranging short stories and personal essays (also unpublished),… More

I was born on June 6, 1962, in Moremar, Oklahoma. I began writing in the Andrews Middle School’s Creative Writing Program in Andrews, Texas. My credits include over a dozen… More

Huang Xiang was born in Hunan Province in China in 1941. Huang began writing poems in the 1950s. In 1978, he founded Enlightenment, China’s first underground writers’ society during this era, and… More

Henry “Butch” Daniels III (1965- ) Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I grew up in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California. In 1983, I graduated from North Hollywood High School,… More

In his 16th year of a life sentence, Hal Cobb is a founding member of Shakespeare Behind Bars (kyshakes.org) where he has served as an actor for 15 seasons… More

Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1955, I became involved in the ganja trade in 1970 and was arrested for hashish trafficking in 1993. For my first conviction of… More