Alexandra Kleeman is a NYC-­based writer of fiction and nonfiction, and the winner of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All­Story, Conjunctions, Guernica,… More

– University of Texas at Austin -Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (rue Bonaparte, Paris) – Cell Theater NYC More

Michael Eskin is a cofounder of Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. His numerous books include Poetic Affairs, The DNA of Prejudice, and Yoga for the Mind. His translations have… More

Lorea Canales is a novelist, translator, journalist, and lawyer. Her first book published in English, Becoming Marta, was released by AmazonCrossing in 2016. She received a degree from Georgetown Law, and worked… More

Catherine Porter is Visiting Professor in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, USA, and Professor of French Emerita at the State University of New York at Cortland, where she chaired the Department… More

Dunya Mikhail, Iraqi-American poet, was born in Baghdad in 1965 and left Iraq to the US (Michigan) in mid 1990s. She has worked as a journalist for “The Baghdad Observer” and… More

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Urayoán Noel is a poet, critic, translator, and performer who teaches at NYU. His books include In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press) and the… More

Ben Katchor is a cartoonist whose books include Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District, The Cardboard Valise, The Jew of New York and Hand-Drying in America. His picture-stories appear in… More