Summer 2020

Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA from New York University. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Kenyon Review Online, Clarkesworld, Santa Monica Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Writers Grotto, and she will be a Steinbeck Fellow at the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University starting in fall 2020. 

Don Lee is the author of the novels Lonesome Lies Before Us (Norton, 2017), The Collective (Norton, 2012), Wrack and Ruin (Norton, 2008), and Country of Origin (Norton, 2004), and of the story collection Yellow (Norton, 2001). He has received an American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University.

Vijay Seshadri is author of the poetry books Wild Kingdom (Graywolf, 1996), The Long Meadow (Graywolf, 2005), The Disappearances, (Harper Collins, 2007), 3 Sections (Graywolf, 2013), and That Was Now, This Is Then (Graywolf, 2020), as well as many essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been widely published and anthologized and recognized with a number of honors, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

A. Igoni Barrett is the author of the novel Blackass (Graywolf, 2016) and the short-story collection Love is Power, or Something Like That (Graywolf, 2013). Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, he now lives in Lagos.

Maddy Crowell is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, the Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Point magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and Slate, among others.

Chris Buzelli’s illustrations have been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Politico, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.