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Janice Margolis is a Los Angeles-based writer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She is the author of the short story collection, Termination Shocks, which won the 2018 Juniper Prize for Fiction (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), and has finished her first novel, World Full of Noise.

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Maria Lioutaia was born in Moscow, and now lives and writes in Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Conjunctions, Master’s Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. 

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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a modernist writer, essayist, and feminist known for her innovative use of stream-of-consciousness, particularly the novels Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.

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Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was a novelist and short story writer known for his subjective works and influence on writers like William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. He had a varied career, working as a businessman and advertising writer, before a mental breakdown in 1912 led him to become a full-time writer. His most famous work, Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of interconnected short stories exploring small-town life.

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Marie-Helene Bertino is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of three novels, Beautyland, Parakeet, and 2AM at the Cat's Pajamas, and two short story collections, Exit Zero, and Safe as Houses. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Prize for her short stories.

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John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock, and the novels American Purgatorio and Out of My Skin. He’s also the author of The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts. His work has also appeared in A Public Space, n+1, Conjunctions, and McSweeney’s.

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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was a celebrated novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for his concise, understated writing style. His novels, including A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, are considered American classics. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times. Her debut novel, Eleutheria, was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and her first story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. She currently teaches at Smith College.

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher, renowned for his transcendentalist beliefs and his writings on nature and simple living. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon his two-year experience living in a cabin at Walden Pond, and his essay, “Civil Disobedience.”

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William Faulkner (1897–1962) was a novelist and short-story writer, best known for his works set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, including The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying. Faulkner received two Pulitzer Prizes and the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.