Critics / Writers

Sylvia Arthur is a British-Ghanaian narrative nonfiction writer whose work explores identity, diaspora, politics, and place. She lives in Accra where she has turned...

Ahlem Kebir, 25 years old. PhD student in cultural heritage and co-founder of Ineffable art & culture. Ineffable art and culture is a digital Magazine,...

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she...

Boško Begović is a conceptual artist that combines visual art and his writing to reflect on existential issues. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, where he...

Lamis Saidi (born on 4 September 1981) is an Algerian poet and translator. In 2004, she graduated as a computer science engineer from the university...

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of...

Christine Kitano is the author of the poetry collections Sky Country (BOA Editions, 2017) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House, 2011), and co-author of the oral...

Andrea Scrima was born in New York City and studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Hochschule...

Sarah Rose Nordgren is a poet, teacher, and multiform text artist. Her two books of poetry are Best Bones (2014), winner of the Agnes...

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She received her PhD in English and American...

Dr. Ignassen Mather engages in the study of history, literature, film and social communications, which led him to create a diet for the mind,...

Philip Metres is the author and translator of ten books and a handful of chapbooks, including The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and...

Natasha Ria El-Scari is a poet, performer, writer, Cave Canem fellow, 2016 Ragdale Residency recipient and educator for over a decade. Her poetry, academic...

William J. Simmons is Provost Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Southern California and Mellon Fellow in Women’s History at the New-York...

Nathaniel Popkin is the author of five books, including the new novel Everything is Borrowed (New Door Books), called “utterly absorbing” by the writer Robin Black,...