Contributors

Alexia Nader is a freelance writer from Miami who is now living in New York. She is currently a graduate student in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University, and has contributed to the New Yorker, Smithsonian , and the Village Voice.

Farid Nassif was born in Boston, studied Literature at Bennington College in Vermont and is now getting his MA in English at Brooklyn College. He regularly reads from his profane yet compelling book, "Civilized Man" at Cornelia St. Cafe, Sycamore Bar, Freddie's, and numerous literary...

Alana Newhouse is the arts and culture editor at the Forward newspaper.

Eric Nusbaum lives in Mexico City. His fiction has been published in Hobart, elimae, and Needle. His nonfiction in ESPN the Magazine, Deaspin, Slate, and The Best American Sports Writing. Reach him on Twitter @ericnus .

Lorna Owen is a writer, editor, and author of the popular blog Mouse Interrupted . Previously she was Senior Editor for Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. She received an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, studied studio arts and art history, and served a year's stint...

Luke Pearson is a soon-to-graduate illustration student and comics artist from the UK. He has been writing and drawing his own comics seriously for about a year and intends to continue doing so alongside his illustration career.

Dale Peck is the author of The Law of Enclosures , Now It's Time to Say Goodbye , What We Lost: Based on a True Story , Martin and John , Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction . In August 2006: FSG will reissue Martin and John as part of the FSG Classics series. January 2007: Drift...

Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His first novel, Prague , was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and has been translated into seven languages. The Egyptologist was published in 2004 and...

Matt Pieknik bookmongers in Manhattan and writes in Brooklyn, and his writing has recently appeared in The Paris Review Daily and The American Reader. He's currently at work on a not-quite-sci-fi novella set in vast absence of Detroit...

Leland Pitts-Gonzalez has been published in Open City, Drunken Boat, Fence and Fourteen Hills , among other literary magazines. He has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Columbia University where he wrote a collection of short stories, The Blue Dot . He's working on a novel tentatively...