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Louie Palu is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and World Press Photo Award. Based in Washington, DC, he has covered US foreign policy and politics for twenty years.

Nyuol Lueth Tong is a writer and editor born in South Sudan and educated at Duke University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Yale University. A Truman Capote Fellow and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, his work has appeared in Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, The Baffler, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is the editor of There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan (McSweeney’s, 2013) and In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement (McSweeney’s, 2018).

Tommy Orange is the New York Times bestselling author of There There (Knopf), winner of the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. There There was deemed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and won the John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. There There was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His sec­ond novel, Wandering Stars, was published by Knopf in February 2024; it was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He is cur­rently finishing his third novel, Pretendian (Knopf). He is a 2025 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant winner. Born and raised in Oakland, California, Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.

Kayla Jean Murphy is from Pennsylvania. She received her MFA from Virginia Tech. Her debut novel, More Abundantly, is forthcoming (West Virginia UP, 2027). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland Magazine, Soft Union, Blue Arrangements, and elsewhere. 

Wale Ayinla is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He is the author of To Cast a Dream (O, Miami, 2021). A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, his poems have appeared in Poet Lore, RHINO, Cherry Tree, TriQuarterly, Ruminate, Guernica, and elsewhere.