Winter 2017

Lydia Davis is the author of seven books of short fiction, two books of essays, and one novel. She is also the translator of numerous works from French and other languages. Her latest collection of stories, Our Strangers, is forthcoming (Bookshop, 2023).

Aaron Huey is a photojournalist working primarily for National Geographic. Huey is also a Stanford d.school Media Experiments Fellow working on ways to bring stories to new spaces outside the traditional media routers. In 2002 Huey walked 3,349 miles across America in 154 days with his dog Cosmo. They walked every step.

Katie Orlinsky has received grants from the Magnum Foundation, Getty Images, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and the Pulitzer Center as well as numerous photographic awards from institutions such as the Art Directors Club, PDN’s 30, Visa pour l’Image, Pictures of the Year International, and most recently the 2016 Paris Match Female Photojournalist of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Geographic, the Guardian, and Smithsonian Magazine. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Koye Oyedeji’s work has appeared in a number of publications including Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Wasafiri magazine, the Believer, and elsewhere.

Trevor Quirk is a writer living in Asheville, NC, and is working on a book about nihilism in American culture.