• Contributors

Nikky Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, The World Is Round, and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her new collection of poems, Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, is available from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His new poem, Be Holding, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2020.

Allan Gurganus's works of fiction include Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, White People, Plays Well with Others, and Local Souls. His newest collection, The Uncollected Stories Of Allan Gurganus, will be published in early 2021 by Norton. He lives in North Carolina.

Tara K. Menon is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and will begin as an Assistant Professor of English at Harvard in the fall of 2021. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Bookforum, Public Books, and elsewhere. She is working on her first novel.

Kara Olson's poetry has appeared in TAYO Literary Magazine and Water~Stone Review. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Margot Parmenter is a writer and a graduate student at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Michael Robbins's latest collection of poetry, Walkman, will be published by Penguin in 2021. He is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

Mary Ruefle is the author of, most recently, Dunce. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2017 Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry.

Becky Shirley is a writer from Oceanside, California. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Brandon Taylor is the author of the novel Real Life, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. He is the senior editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Lit Hub.

Justin Taylor's most recent book is Riding with the Ghost, a memoir. He is also the author of the novel The Gospel of Anarchy and the story collections Flings and Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Laura van den Berg is the author of five books, most recently the story collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. Born and raised in Florida, she splits her time between Central Florida and the Boston area.

• 贡献者

Nikky Finney生于南卡罗来纳州的海边，在民权，黑人权力和黑人艺术运动期间成长。她是《用纱布做成的翅膀》，《赖斯》，《世界是圆的》和《散开与分裂》的作者，该书于2011年获得了国家诗歌奖。她的新诗集《爱孩子的偶尔诗歌温床》现已面市。摘自TriQuarterly Books /西北大学出版社。

罗斯·盖是四本诗集的作者：面对哪; 放下铲子; 并获得了“毫不掩饰的感谢”目录，并获得了2015年国家图书评论家奖和2016年金斯利·塔夫茨诗歌奖。他的新诗《Be Holding》于2020年9月由匹兹堡大学出版社出版。

艾伦·古尔加努斯（Allan Gurganus）的小说作品包括最古老的同盟寡妇告诉所有人，白人，与人相处融洽，以及当地的灵魂。他的最新作品《艾伦·古尔冈纳斯的未收藏的故事》将于2021年初由诺顿出版。他住在北卡罗来纳州。

塔拉·K·梅农（Tara K. Menon）是哈佛研究员协会的初级研究员，将于2021年秋开始在哈佛担任英语助理教授。她的著作发表在《巴黎评论》，《书论坛》，《公共书刊》等地方。她正在写她的第一本小说。

卡拉·奥尔森（Kara Olson）的诗歌出现在《TAYO文学》杂志和《水〜石评论》中。她住在明尼苏达州的明尼阿波利斯。

Margot Parmenter是萨凡纳艺术与设计学院的作家和研究生。

迈克尔·罗宾斯（Michael Robbins）的最新诗歌集《随身听》（Walkman）将在2021年由企鹅出版社发行。他是新泽西州蒙特克莱尔州立大学的英语副教授。

Mary Ruefle是Dunce的作者。她获得了无数荣誉，包括2017年《现代美国诗歌》艾肯·泰勒奖。

贝基·雪莉（Becky Shirley）是一位来自加利福尼亚州欧申赛德（Oceanside）的作家。她拥有哥伦比亚大学的小说文学硕士学位，现在住在纽约市。

布兰登·泰勒（Brandon Taylor）是小说《现实生活》（Real Life）的作者，该小说曾获《纽约时报》编辑推荐，并入围2020年布克奖。他是《电子文学》推荐读物的高级编辑，也是Lit Hub的特约撰稿人。

贾斯汀·泰勒（Justin Taylor）的最新著作是回忆录《与鬼同骑》。他还是小说《无政府状态的福音》和故事集《逃离和这里的一切都是有史以来最好的事》的作者。他住在俄勒冈州的波特兰。

劳拉·范登·伯格（Laura van den Berg）是五本书的作者，最近出版的故事集是《耳朵里的狼》。她在佛罗里达州出生和长大，她在佛罗里达州中部和波士顿地区之间度过时光。