Contributors

Kim Addonizio’s recent books are Mortal Trash: Poems (W.W. Norton) and Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). She lives in Oakland, CA.

Mindy Aloff’s most recent book is Why Dance Matters, published by Yale University Press. Her editing is also represented in In Balanchine’s Steps: How the George Balanchine Foundation Preserves His Genius (Tide-Mark Press) and in Buddhist Dances: Movement & Mind by Joseph Houseal (Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House), both published in 2025.

Jennifer Baumgardner is the editor of LIBER and the Lucille Geier Lakes writer-in-residence at Smith College. She is producing The Body of Mary: A Play in Three Acts (of God), a new play by Katie Cappiello.

Jessica Baumgardner is a writer who lives in Los Angeles.

Kian Braulik is a freelance writer and an editorial assistant at Boston Review.

adrienne maree brown is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. Some of her books include Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, and the speculative fiction trilogy Grievers. She is the editor of the Emergent Strategy Series.

Katie Cappiello is a playwright, director, and acting teacher in New York. She was the creator and showrunner of the Netflix series Grand Army.

Cindy Crabb is a therapist and feminist zine writer. She lived in the Bay Area in the early to mid-1990s, an experience that informed her forthcoming oral history The Bearded Lady Truckstop Cafe: An Oral History of the San Francisco Dyke Scene. Her zine Doris is widely cited as among the most influential zines of the ’90s, and her diaries and papers are archived at the Radcliffe Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

Cindy Frenkel’s writing has appeared in publications ranging from The New Yorker to WIRED to The New York Ob-server, where she was a columnist. She served as writer/editor of the Detroit Institute of Arts magazine (DIA) and a writer-in-residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Project. She is the co-author of 100 Essential Books for Jewish Readers and author of the chapbook, The Plague of the Tender-Hearted (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Kelsay Books.

Diane Gelon is an American entertainment attorney based in London as well as a producer and the board president of Through the Flower, the non-profit foundation created in 1977 by the artist Judy Chicago.

Anna Godbersen is the author of the New York Times bestselling series The Luxe, among other novels for young adults and older adults.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen books of poems, most recently Calligraphies (Norton, 2023), as well as the translator of twenty-four books by French and Francophone poets, including Samira Negrouche and Claire Malroux.

Kathleen Hurlock is a feminist teacher and writer based in Athens, GA, whose work focuses on reproductive justice, women’s literature, and contemporary applications of second-wave feminist theory.

Tinamarie Ivey is a performing artist and scholar in Dallas. Her writing has appeared in Iconic: Drag Celebrities and Queer Communities, Routledge Focus: Ecodramaturgies, and TxETA Higher Education Research.

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is a literary biographer and the former Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, California. Her book Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb will be published fall 2024 by the University of California Press.

Dylan Jordan is the editorial assistant for LIBER. They are currently pursuring an BA in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality with a concentration in Archives from Smith College. They are a recent intern of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. They are from Dallas, Texas

Jana Leo is an artist and writer who lives in New York. She is the author of Rape New York. Her work has been shown internationally in museums such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the International Center of Photography in New York.

Pat Lipsky is a painter and writer. Her art has been exhibited in the André Emmerich Gallery and more recently the James Fuentes Gallery, among others. Her writing appears in Tablet, The New Criterion, The East Hampton Star, The Awl, and Public Books. Her book Brightening Glance will be published in October 2025 by University of Iowa Press. She lives in Chelsea, New York.

Noelle McManus is a writer-poet-linguist from Long Island, New York. Their work has appeared in Eclectica, Redivider, Vagabond City Press, and elsewhere. In addition to working as an editorial assistant at LIBER, they are a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow.

Aline Mello is a writer and editor originally from Brazil. She is an Undocupoet fellow and a graduate student at The Ohio State University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. Her debut poetry collection, More Salt than Diamond, was published by Andrews McMeel in March 2022. 

Lori O’Dea is a fiction writer and literary critic living in Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Rain Taxi, Bridge, the Gay & Lesbian Review, and other publications. She reviews contemporary literature with a focus on works in translation and/or by LGBTQ authors and is currently writing a novel.

Jeanne-Marie Osterman is the author of four collections of poetry, including Who Killed Marta Ugarte? (Broadstone Books), Shellback (Paloma Press), and All Animals Want the Same Things.She was a 2018 finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. At home in New York City, Jeanne-Marie is poetry editor for Cagibi, a journal of poetry and prose.

Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, and essayist living in Toronto. Her next poetry collection, The Widow’s Crayon Box, is forthcoming from Norton in November.

Tara Perkins is a writer and artist manager. 

Alissa Quart is an American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet, and the ​​executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that funds independent reporters covering social inequality

Evangeline Riddiford Graham is the author of the poetry chapbooks la belle dame avec les mains vertes and Ginesthoi. Her recent and forthcoming writing can be found in Electric Literature, Divagations, Landfall, Art News, and Poets & Writers. She is host and producer of the poetry podcast Multiverse and senior managing editor of Public Seminar

Rebecca Saltzman’s writing appears in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from NYU and lives in New York City.

Jill Solnicki has published two collections of poetry, This Mortal Coil and The Fabric of Skin, as well as a memoir of teaching at-risk students titled The Real Me Is Gonna be a Shock: A Year in the Life of a Front-Line Teacher. Her third collection of poems, The Darkening House, is forthcoming in 2027.

Mya Spalter is a poet, editor, and the author of Enchantments (The Dial Press, 2022) and the chapbook Crush Reactor (2019). She performed with the 25th anniversary tour of Sister Spit (in 2022) and has been awarded fellowships from Brooklyn Poets and Cave Canem.

Debbie Stoller is the cofounder of BUST magazine and served as its editor-in-chief from 1993-2023. She holds a PhD in the Psychology of Women.

Laurie Stone is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now, long-listed for the the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She writes the acclaimed Substack Everything Is Personal. 

Nino Testa teaches Women’s and Gender Studies at West Virginia University. His research is on histories of queer arts and activism.

Bekah Waalkes is a PhD candidate in literature at Tufts University.

McKenzie Wark is professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the New School. Her books include Raving, Capital Is Dead, Reverse Cowgirl, and Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker.

Bett Williams is the author of The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey (Dottir Press, 2020), which has been optioned for television by Amblin Entertainment. Her other books are Girl Walking Backwards (St. Martin’s Press) and The Wrestling Party (Alyson Press). 

Deborah Williams is a clinical professor of liberal studies at NYU and author of  The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2023). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Rumpus, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere. 

Mary-Kate Wilson is a Washington, D.C- based writer and editorial intern of LIBER. Her previous historical writing has been published on Boundary Stones. 

Carmen Winant is a photographer and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University. Her installation The Last Safe Abortion is part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial.