David Sowell has written about golf and golf history for numerous publications, including the United States Golf Association’s Golf Journal, Links Magazine, and Golf Illustrated. He is the author of three books, including The Masters: A Hole-by-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic (Nebraska, 2019). His most … Continue reading Excerpt: America Tees Off
Leslie Stainton has served on the board of directors of both the Slave Dwelling Project and Coming to the Table. She is a two-time Fulbright recipient and a former lecturer in creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan Residential College. Stainton … Continue reading Excerpt: Scarlett
Anthony R. Pahnke is an associate professor of international relations at San Francisco State University and serves as the vice president of Family Farm Defenders. He is the author of Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement and Agrarian Crisis in … Continue reading Excerpt: Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change
Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer living in eastern North Carolina with his wife and daughters. His work has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere. Tuck serves on the advisory board for the North Carolina Literary Review and teaches writing at … Continue reading Excerpt: Twinless Twin
Kathryn Wilder is a writer and rancher in Dolores and Disappointment Valley, Colorado. She is the winner of a 2025 Western Heritage Award and the author of Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West, coauthor of … Continue reading Excerpt: The Last Cows
Kimberly Ann Priest is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University. She is the author of the poetry books Slaughter the One Bird and tether and lung. Her most recent book Wolves in Shells (Backwaters Press, … Continue reading Excerpt: Wolves in Shells
Chris Serb is deputy district chief for the Chicago Fire Department. He is also a veteran Chicago freelance writer with almost thirty years of experience as a journalist. Serb’s articles, concentrated in sports and history, have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago History, Writer’s … Continue reading Excerpt: Eckie
Cameron M. Shriver is a senior research associate at the Myaamia Center at Miami University. Bobbe Burke is the Miami tribe relations coordinator emerita at the Myaamia Center at Miami University. Their most recent book Our People Believe in Education: The Unlikely Alliance … Continue reading Excerpt: Our People Believe in Education
Shann Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of the story collection American Masculine, winner of numerous prizes including the American Book Award; the novel American Copper; and the poetry collection Atomic Theory … Continue reading Excerpt: Where Blackbirds Fly
Katharina Galor is the Hirschfield Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University. Born in Germany, where her parents had fled from communist Romania, Galor was educated in Germany, France, Israel, and the United States. She is the author or coauthor … Continue reading Excerpt: Out of Gaza
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