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Nathan Heller, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is at work on a book about the Bay Area and the past fifty years of American life.

Fanny Howe is a widely published poet and writer whose most recent book is Night Philosophy, from Divided Publishing in Belgium.

Neyat Yohannes is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in MUBI Notebook, Bright Wall/Dark Room, KQED Arts, Cleo Film Journal, and the Chicago Review of Books, among other publications. She also sometimes tweets at @rhymeswithcat.

Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels, including Innocents and Others, Stone Arabia, and Eat the Document.

Jay Caspian Kang is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine.

Ben Elias is a director and cinematographer from New Zealand. He lives in Brooklyn.