Michael Imossan is a Nigerian poet of Ibibio origin. He is curator of the poetry column for Nigerian NewsDirect, poetry editor for the Chestnut Review, and the author of the award-winning chapbook For the Love of Country and Memory. Imossan’s second chapbook, The Smell of … Continue reading Excerpt: All That Refuses to Die
Mimi Nichter (née Beeber) is a cultural and medical anthropologist, public speaker, and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of four anthropology-related books and the recipient of the Margaret Mead Award … Continue reading Excerpt: Hostage
Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor … Continue reading Excerpt: The Heart Folds Early
Kirsten Leng is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900–1933. Her new book Pleasure, … Continue reading Excerpt: Play, Pleasure, and Politics
Paula Davis Hoffman is an adjunct professor of history at Houston City College. Her new book Making the Miami Cubanita: A Pop Cultural Genealogy (Nebraska, 2026) was published this month. At the end of the nineteenth century, William Randolph Hearst’s … Continue reading Excerpt: Making the Miami Cubanita
Nancy Marie Mithlo is a professor of gender studies and American Indian studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and curator in residence at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In addition to the Venice Biennale, she has … Continue reading Excerpt: Red Skin Dreams
Elisa Speckman Guerra is director and researcher at the Institute of Historical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is the author or coauthor of several books in Spanish on law, judicial culture, and criminal justice in Mexico. … Continue reading Excerpt: A Question of Justice
Steve Bialostok is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is the coeditor of Education and the Risk Society: Theories, Discourse, and Risk Identities in Education Contexts. His most recent book Playing to the End: Elder Black Men, Placemaking, … Continue reading Excerpt: Playing to the End
Thomas Aiello is a professor of history and Africana studies at Valdosta State University. He is the author of White Ice: Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey and Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947–1979. His most recent book Return … Continue reading Excerpt: Return of the King
Chisom Okafor is a Nigerian poet and clinical nutritionist. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, the Raven Review, the Hellebore, North Dakota Quarterly, Salt Hill, Sand Journal, the Account, Rattle, and elsewhere. His most recent book Winged Witnesses (Nebraska, 2025) was published in December. Chisom … Continue reading Excerpt: Winged Witnesses
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