Nicole Acheampong’s (she/her) writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Aperture, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She's an editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine and is based in Brooklyn.

Kyle Chayka (he/him) is a staff writer at The New Yorker who writes Infinite Scroll, a column about culture on the internet. His second book, Filterworld, on the flattening effects of algorithmic feeds, will be published by Doubleday in January 2024. His first book, The Longing for Less, on the legacy of minimalism in art and life, was published in 2020.

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Anna E. Clark (she/her) is a writer, critic, and academic. Her essays and reviews appear in Alta, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, and Public Books, among other outlets, while her scholarly work has been published in journals such as ELH and Victorian Review. In 2019, she edited an edition of the Wilkie Collins novella The Dead Alive for Broadview Press. She received a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where her work considered character and voice in the 19th-century novel. She lives in San Diego, Calif., where she teaches writing and literary studies.

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Natashia Deón (she/her) is a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature, Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nominee in Fiction, a practicing criminal attorney, and author of the critically acclaimed novels, GRACE and The Perishing. GRACE was named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and awarded Best Debut Novel by the American Library Association’s Black Caucus. A PEN America Fellow, Deón has also been awarded fellowships and residencies at Yale, Prague’s Creative Writing Program, Dickinson House in Belgium and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a professor of creative writing at Yale, UCLA, and Antioch University. Her personal essays have been featured in The New York Times, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, American Short Fiction, BuzzFeed News, and other places.

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Johanna Fateman (she/her) is a writer, art critic, and musician. She writes regularly for 4Columns, and often for Bookforum and The Whitney Review. She is a former contributing editor for Artforum and her reviews appeared weekly in the “Goings On About Town” section of The New Yorker for many years. Last summer, her band, Le Tigre, toured for the first time since 2005.

@johannafateman

Isaac Fellman (he/him) is a writer and archivist from San Francisco. He is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Notes From a Regicide, upcoming in 2025, as well as Dead Collections, The Two Doctors Górski, and The Breath of the Sun. You can follow him on Bluesky and subscribe to his newsletter.

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Tajja Isen (she/her) is the author of the essay collection Some of My Best Friends, named a Best Book of the Year by outlets including Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, and CBC Books. The former editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine, she has also co-edited the anthology The World as We Knew It and edited for The Walrus, where she is currently a contributing writer. Her next book, Tough Love, is a memoir of mentorship, ambition, and obsession. She’s based in Brooklyn but is spending spring 2024 in Las Vegas as a Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellow.

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Dan Kois (he/him) is a longtime writer and editor at Slate. He's the author of three nonfiction books, Facing Future, The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), and How to Be a Family. His first novel, Vintage Contemporaries, was published in 2023; his second, Hampton Heights, will be published in the fall of 2024. He lives in Arlington, Va., with his family.

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Stephen Krause (he/they) has been selling books for over a decade. Most recently he worked at Malvern Books and is currently a book buyer and cofounder of Alienated Majesty Books in Austin, Texas. He has also worked for Dalkey Archive, Deep Vellum, and The New York Review of Books.

@franzlatke

Elizabeth Minkel (she/her) is a journalist and editor who’s written about books, fandom, and digital culture for WIRED, The New Yorker, The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Millions, and more. She’s the co-host of the long-running Fansplaining podcast and co-curator of The Rec Center, a weekly fan culture newsletter that was a finalist for the Hugo Award. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Orlando.

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Leah Schnelbach (they/them!) is the features editor for Tor.com and a fiction editor for No Tokens. Their fiction, nonfiction, and interviews have appeared in The Rumpus, Joyland, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Electric Literature, among other estimable places. Turn-ons include Cate Blanchett’s Ocean’s 8 wardrobe, good espresso, and exhaustively researched oral histories of obscure topics; turn-offs include the phrase “elevated horror,” unnecessary prequels, and the death of the author.

@cloudy_vision

Dan Sheehan (he/him) is a writer and editor from Dublin, Ireland. His debut novel, Restless Souls, was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Great Debuts of 2018. His writing has appeared in The Irish Times, Oprah.com, GQ, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is the editor-in-chief of Book Marks at Literary Hub, and lives in western Wyoming with his wife, daughter, and dog.

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Dan Sinykin (he/him) is an assistant professor of English at Emory University and the author of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed Book Publishing and American Literature.

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Lucy Tan (she/her) is author of the novel What We Were Promised, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a Best Book of 2018 by The Washington Post. A recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Lucy is originally from New Jersey. She lives and writes in Seattle.

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Rufi Thorpe (she/her) received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009. She is the author of The Girls From Corona Del Mar, Dear Fang, With Love, and her most recent, The Knockout Queen, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. Her fourth novel, Margo’s Got Money Troubles is forthcoming from William Morrow at HarperCollins in June 2024. She lives in California with her husband and two sons where she teaches at The Book Incubator.

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Steffan Triplett (he/him) is the author of Bad Forecast, forthcoming on Essay Press, and the chapbook Constraints on DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press. Steffan teaches at the University of Pittsburgh where he is the managing director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP). He is an Essay Editor at The Offing and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Outpost, Lambda Literary, and the National Book Critics Circle.

steffantriplett.wordpress.com

TMN co-founder Rosecrans Baldwin is the bestselling author of Everything Now. Other books include The Last Kid Left and Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down. He writes a weekly Substack about beautiful things.

rosecransbaldwin.com

Meave Gallagher keeps busy in Brooklyn, NY, knitting baby clothes, fostering kittens, and trying to become a public librarian while the libraries still have funding. In another life, she worked far too long in journalism. She’s honored to have contributed to The Morning News since 2005, and been the Tournament of Books community moderator and a judgment commentator since 2019.

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Kevin Guilfoile is the author of two novels, Cast of Shadows and The Thousand, that have been translated into more than 20 languages. His latest book, a memoir, is A Drive Into the Gap. He is also co-screenwriter of the feature film Chasing the Blues.

@kevinguilfoile

Alana Mohamed is a writer and librarian from Queens, NY. Her writing can be found in the Atlantic, Literary Hub, Longreads, and an assortment of now-defunct publications.

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John Warner writes weekly about books for the Chicago Tribune and at his weekly newsletter, The Biblioracle Recommends, where he’ll be happy to tell you what you should read next based on the last five books you’ve read. His next book, coming early 2025, is More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI.

@biblioracle

Andrew Womack is a co-founder of the Tournament of Books and The Morning News and writes a weekly newsletter about new music.

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