Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate and the author of the memoir Children of the Land.

Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. She is also the author of Homesick.

Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. He has two books out this year: This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of two books of poetry and one book of short stories. For The Paris Review she writes a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood entitled HAPPILY.

Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, most recently Holy Moly Carry Me.

Alicia Ostriker, a poet and critic, has published sixteen volumes of poetry.

Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish Nobel laureate writer, activist, and public intellectual.

New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn's This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (W.W. Norton, 2020)

Nick Flynn’s Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations (ZE Books, 2020)

New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Erika Meitner

Holy Moly Carry Me by Erika Meitner

Ballerz 2K20, An Anthology (O, Miami, 2020)

Poet Rebecca Gayle Howell

New Books Written by and Recommended by Sabrina Orah Mark

Wild Milk by Sabrina Orah Mark

Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Algonquin, 2016)

New Books Written by and Recommended by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Children of the Land (Harper Collins, 2020)

New Books Written by and Recommended by Alicia Ostriker

The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 (Pitt Poetry Series)

Ideas of Order and Disorder (Ghostbird Press, 2020)

New Books Written by and Recommended by Jennifer Croft

Homesick (Unnamed Press, 2019)

New Books Written by and Recommended by Olga Tokarczuk

Flights (Riverhead, 2019)

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