Winter 2019

Monika Bulaj is a Polish photojournalist, reporter, and documentary filmmaker based in Italy. Her work has been published in Granta, National Geographic, the New York Times Lens, TIME Lightbox, the Guardian, and elsewhere. Her most recent book is Where Gods Whisper (Contrasto, 2018). Her awards include a Grant in Visual Arts from the European Association for Jewish Culture; a Bruce Chatwin Special Award for Photography; an Aftermath Project Grant; a TEDGlobal Fellowship; and a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* writer, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House, 2017). He was a 2017–2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies.

Photo by Walid Mohanna

Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator living in New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Longreads, LitHub, Bookforum, the New YorkerOnline, Frieze, and elsewhere. She won Gulf Coast’s 2016 Prize for her translations of poetry by Marigloria Palma, and coedited the bilingual anthology Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous, 2019). She is at work on her first book, a psychogeography of Puerto Rican culture, forthcoming from Riverhead.

Kate Zambreno is the author, most recently, of Drifts (Riverhead, 2020) and To Write as if Already Dead (Columbia UP, 2021). Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review, the White Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, she teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley chair in environmental writing at Sarah Lawrence College. The Light Room is forthcoming (Riverhead, 2023).