Matthew Minor
Matthew Minor is a master’s student in liberal studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama, where he studied visual art and creative writing before completing a residency in art at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His…
Read MoreEmma Copley Eisenberg
Emma Copley Eisenberg [pronounced cop-ley] is the author of the novel Housemates, which was a national bestseller and named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe, People, NBC, Them.Us, Autostraddle, and Kirkus Reviews as well as one of Electric Literature’s “Top 5 Novels of 2024” and Time Magazine’s “16 Best Books to…
Read MoreJosephine Sacabo
Josephine Sacabo was born in Laredo, TX, attended Bard College, and later lived and worked extensively in France and England. A self-taught photographer, Sacabo’s earlier work is in the photojournalistic tradition. Sacabo now employs a subjective, introspective style, using poetry as the genesis of her work. She divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico.…
Read MoreMatthew Paul Smith
Matthew Paul Smith is an instructor in the English Department at Tulane and specializes in 19th century American literature, particularly the literature of Louisiana. He has two forthcoming edited collections: The Cambridge Companion to New Orleans Literature (Cambridge UP) and Cross Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Japan: Foreigners Within the Samurai Class (Routledge). His recent…
Read MoreAnaïs Umano
Anaïs Umano is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Lorraine in Nancy. Her dissertation, titled “Tennessee Williams’ Late Characters in Search of Actors,” focuses on Williams’ late plays and explores how actors can contribute to rehabilitating these works through performance. She proposes the concept of “plastic acting,” directly inspired by Williams’ notion of…
Read MoreVictoria Kelly
Victoria Kelly is the author of the story collection Homefront, the novel Mrs. Houdini, and the poetry collection When the Men Go Off to War. She is a veteran spouse and former PR executive and is currently producing the World War II documentary Atomic Veterans. She is a graduate of Harvard, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,…
Read MoreRayna Nielsen
Rayna Nielsen is an indie bookseller and writer. She is the creator and host of Book Banter, a virtual event series and podcast. She is the Event Specialist at Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans, Louisiana, and she currently serves on the boards of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and the Independent Bookseller Association of…
Read MoreKatherine Fausset
Katherine Fausset has worked in book publishing since 1998, starting at the Watkins/Loomis Agency. She joined Curtis Brown, Ltd. as an agent in 2006, where she is now a Senior Agent and a Vice President. She represents mainly literary and upmarket fiction, as well as select non-fiction. Her clients include multiple award-winning, national and international…
Read MoreEry Shin
Ery Shin was born in Ames, Iowa, and raised in Manhattan for the first decade of her life, then Seoul for the second. The author of Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years, a study of Stein’s later experimental gestures and their philosophical implications within Hitler’s Europe, she is currently an assistant professor of English at the University…
Read MoreLurana Donnels O’Malley
Lurana Donnels O’Malley serves as Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and has taught Euro-American theatre history, research, and directing there since 1991. O’Malley is the author of The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia (2006). O’Malley has also published on topics…
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