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Mark Nowak

Mark Nowak, a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of Shut Up Shut Down, a New York Times Editor’s Choice.

Philip Metres has won two NEA fellowships, two Arab American Book Awards, and the PEN/Heim Translation Grant.

NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe.

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978.

Tope Folarin is the 2013 Caine Prize winner for his short story, “Miracle.”

Okwiri Oduor teaches creative writing to young girls at her alma mater in Nairobi, and is currently working on her first full-length novel.

Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic and scholar born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1956.

Namwali Serpell is the winner of the Caine Prize for 2015. She is associate professor of English at University of California, Berkeley.