Sean J. McLaughlin is a historian, serving as the director of Special Collections and Exhibits at Murray State University in Kentucky. He is the author of JFK and de Gaulle: How America and France Failed in Vietnam, 1961–1963 and coauthor of The Finest Place … Continue reading Excerpt: Royal Treatment
Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She is the author or editor of twenty books, including Selfish Women and After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Against Affect
Teo Rivera-Dundas is a writer in western Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wassaic Project, Anderson Center at Tower View, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California, San Diego. His writing has appeared in Gulf … Continue reading Excerpt: Slow Guillotine
Randolph Lewis is a professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of “Navajo Talking Picture”: Cinema on Native Ground (Nebraska, 2012), Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (Nebraska, 2006), and Under Surveillance: Being Watched in … Continue reading Excerpt: Bummerland
Kerry James Evans is an associate professor of English at Georgia College and State University, where he coordinates the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs. He is the author of the poetry collection Bangalore. A recipient of a 2015 National … Continue reading Excerpt: Nine Persimmons
Natalie Oceanheart is a trained psychologist and volunteer counselor. She immigrated to the United States in 2023 after the second Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has been awarded for her volunteer services and leadership by the Red Cross. Her new … Continue reading Excerpt: Life Beyond Fear
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
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