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Teju Cole is a photographer and writer. He was born in the United States, raised in Nigeria, and currently lives in Massachusetts. His books—notable among them Open City, Blind Spot, Known and Strange Things, and Fernweh—are published in twenty languages.

Teju Cole is a photographer and writer. He was born in the United States, raised in Nigeria, and currently lives in Massachusetts. His books—notable among them Open City, Blind Spot, Known and Strange Things, and Fernweh—are published in twenty languages.

Toni Jensen is the author of the memoir Carry, a Dayton Peace Prize finalist and a New York Times Editors’ Choice book. An NEA recipient in 2020, Jensen’s essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult and Ecotone.

Toni Jensen is the author of the memoir Carry, a Dayton Peace Prize finalist and a New York Times Editors’ Choice book. An NEA recipient in 2020, Jensen’s essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult and Ecotone.

Megan L. Cook is the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts professor of English at Colby College. A former teenaged mall goth turned medievalist, she is the author of The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History (Penn, 2019) and co-editor of John Lydgate’s Dance of Death and Related Works (Medieval Institute, 2019).

Alejandro Heredia is a writer from The Bronx. He is the author of LOCA, a finalist for the 2025 Center for Fiction First Novel prize, and You’re the Only Friend I Need, winner of the Gold Line Press Fiction chapbook contest.

Peter Relic is the author of Bust a Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl and the Hip-Hop Hits that First Conquered Pop (Kensington Books, 2026), a book that Kirkus Reviews called “both informative and wildly entertaining.”