Contributors

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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’s most recent book is Streaming Now. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large for NPR’s Fresh Air, Laurie currently has a Substack called Everything Is Personal. 

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

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. 

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.