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Claire Lombardo is the author of the nationally-bestselling novel Same As It Ever Was. Her debut, The Most Fun We Ever Had, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Reese's Book Club pick. Her novels have been translated or are forthcoming in over a dozen languages.

Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare (Omnidawn, 2015) and of Saturday (The Song Cave, 2024). Her poems and translations have appeared in Granta, Harper’s, The Paris Review,...

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Ada Zhang's short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. The Sorrows of Others, her first story collection, was published by A Public Space Books. She is a 2024 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction and 2023 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.

Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated...

Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Karen Parkman will read from her new novel, The Jills. Listed by both PEOPLE Magazine and CrimeReads as a "best book of February," The Jills is praised by Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, as "a nuanced, incisive exploration of the world of NFL cheerleading—and the complex power of sisterhood, both familial and chosen," while Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ferry Out and We Were Never Here, says:...

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Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/4th Estate), winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. A Lucky Man: Stories (2018, Graywolf Press) was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and winner of a PEN...