Terrance Hayes is a poet, educator, and 2014 MacArthur Fellow. His seventh book of poetry, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, will come out this summer.
Tom Bissell is the author of nine books, including Apostles, Magic Hours, and (with Greg Sestero) The Disaster Artist.
Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Her most recent book is When the Sick Rule the World.
Lev Grossman is the author of the Magicians trilogy and the former book critic and lead technology writer for Time. He is currently writing a King Arthur novel called The Bright Sword.
Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American author, activist, teacher, and public speaker. Her third book, A Map into the World, will be published in '.
Owen King is a writer based in New York and the co-author, most recently, of Sleeping Beauties.
Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, and archivist/myth scientist, as well as the author of Hollywood Forever, Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues and Negro League Baseball. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.
Rick Moody is a novelist, short story writer, and artist in residence at New York University. His most recent novel, Gardens of North America, was published in 2015.