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Grady Hendrix is the cofounder of Subway Cinema and the New York Asian Film Festival, as well as the author, most recently, of These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (with Chris Poggiali).

Laura Kern is a writer, editor, and horror programmer based in New York. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Film Comment, and Rolling Stone.

Roxane Gay is a writer of books, essays, short stories, comic books, graphic novels, film, and television. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New York, and that’s something she never thought she would say.

Robert Daniels is associate editor at RogerEbert.com and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Reverse Shot, and Screen Daily. He lives in Chicago.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the New York Times best-selling author of the critically acclaimed speculative novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Signal to Noise, Certain Dark Things, and The Beautiful Ones; the crime novel Untamed Shore, and the noir...

Michael B. Gillespie is author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film and coeditor of Black One Shot, an art criticism series on ASAP/J. He is an associate professor of film at the City College of...

Sam Lipsyte is the author of four novels, including Hark, The Ask (New York Times Notable Book for 2010), Home Land (New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of the Believer Book Award), and The Subject Steve, as...

Amanda Lee Koe is the author of Ministry of Moral Panic and Delayed Rays of a Star. Born in Singapore, she has spent time in Beijing and Berlin. She now lives in New York.

Bryan Washington is the author of Lot and Memorial, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a columnist for the New York Times Magazine.

Lindsay Zoladz is a cultural critic and a frequent contributor to the New York Times.