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Keisha Scarville - The Brooklyn Rail
Keisha Scarville is a photographic artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been widely exhibited and is held in several collections. She is currently a...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Lori-Waxman/
Lori Waxman - The Brooklyn Rail
Lori Waxman is the Chicago Tribune’s art critic and a senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her most recent book is “Keep Walking...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/winter-miller/
Winter Miller - The Brooklyn Rail
Winter Miller's musical Amandine debuted at the Cherry Lane in January 2013. A founding member of the Obie-winning playwriting collective 13P, her plays...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/An-My-Le/
An-My Lê - The Brooklyn Rail
An-My Lê is an artist. Educated at Stanford and Yale University, she has been the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/gerard-raymond/
Gerard Raymond - The Brooklyn Rail
Gerard Raymond is a Sri Lanka-born arts journalist based in New York City who’s a member of the Outer Critics Circle, the American Theater Critics/Journalists...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Jason-Fox/
Jason Fox - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/peter-zinn/
Peter Zinn - The Brooklyn Rail
Peter Zinn is a writer based in New Orleans.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Kyle-Dacuyan/
Kyle Dacuyan - The Brooklyn Rail
Kyle Dacuyan writes poetry and monologues. DAD ROCK premiered at The Shed in 2024, and Incitements is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/alex-chowaniec/
Alex Chowaniec - The Brooklyn Rail
ALEX CHOWANIEC is a painter, filmmaker, and new media artist based in Brooklyn.
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Aleksandar Duravcevic - The Brooklyn Rail
Aleksandar Duravcevic is an artist with a wide-ranging practice that stretches from video to installations and painstakingly-executed drawings. His works probe...
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Robert Walser - The Brooklyn Rail
Robert Walser is a radiantly original author.
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Katy Bolger - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/jillian-elisabetta-ciaccia/
Jillian Elisabetta Ciaccia - The Brooklyn Rail
Jillian Elisabetta Ciaccia has been making the mundane profound since 1982.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Jasper-Bernes/
Jasper Bernes - The Brooklyn Rail
Jasper Bernes teaches in the English Department at UC Berkeley. He is author of We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015) and The Work of Art in the Age of...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Erica-Getto/
Erica Getto - The Brooklyn Rail
ERICA GETTO is a writer based in Brooklyn.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/ivan-vladislavi/
Ivan Vladislavić - The Brooklyn Rail
Ivan VladislaviĆ was born in Pretoria in 1957 and lives in Johannesburg. His fiction includes The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View, Double Negative, 101...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/lori-lynn-turner/
Lori Lynn Turner - The Brooklyn Rail
Lori Lynn Turner's short fiction was published in the online food journal The Inquisitive Eater. She is an associate director of the The New School Writing...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Shadi-Ghaheri/
Shadi Ghaheri - The Brooklyn Rail
is a director and choreographer from Tehran, Iran based in New York. Credits: Untitled (Rattlestick Theatre), Lucretia (HERE), Death of Yazdgerd, Titus...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/mo-ogrodnik/
Mo Ogrodnik - The Brooklyn Rail
Mo Ogrodnik is a filmmaker, writer, and professor in the film department at NYU. She was the associate dean of the arts for NYU in Abu Dhabi and the director...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Jeffrey-Joe-Nelson/
Jeffrey Joe Nelson - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/joseph-liatela/
Joseph Liatela - The Brooklyn Rail
Joseph Liatela is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Using performance, sculpture, and video, he makes work that examines issues of...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Mark-McMorris/
Mark McMorris - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Geoffrey-Owen-Miller/
Geoffrey Owen Miller - The Brooklyn Rail
Geoffrey Owen Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist, color theory professor, and aquarium designer. Originally from New Mexico, he now lives in Long Island...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Tenaya-Nasser-Frederick/
Tenaya Nasser-Frederick - The Brooklyn Rail
Tenaya Nasser-Frederick lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His first chapbook Penumbra Highway is out from Gas Meter Books(2018).
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Margaret-M-Seiler/
Margaret M. Seiler - The Brooklyn Rail
Margaret M. Seiler is an educator and activist living in Brooklyn, New York. Besides her work with Witness at the Border, she volunteers with two NYC-based...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/todd-petty/
Todd Petty - The Brooklyn Rail
Todd Petty is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/keren-katz/
Keren Katz - The Brooklyn Rail
Keren Katz is the illustrating half of The Katz Sisters duo. She is also the half that is not fictitious. For more of her work visit: kerenkatz.carbonmade.com.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/peniel-e-joseph/
Peniel E. Joseph - The Brooklyn Rail
Peniel E. Joseph is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of the award-winning Waiting 'Til the...
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Joe Maggio - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/dan-bell/
Dan Bell - The Brooklyn Rail
Dan Bell is a writer based in Brooklyn.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/kathryn-walat/
Kathryn Walat - The Brooklyn Rail
KATHRYN WALAT is a playwright whose latest work is Small Town Values, inspired by Wilder's Our Town.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/ved-mehta/
Ved Mehta - The Brooklyn Rail
VED MEHTA is the author of 24 books. His latest book All for Love will be published this June.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/suzanne-mcconnell/
Suzanne McConnell - The Brooklyn Rail
Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Suzanne McConnell’s fiction has appeared in the Huffington Post, Provincetown Arts, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Water...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/peter-spielberg/
Peter Spielberg - The Brooklyn Rail
Peter Spielberg, a cofounder of the Fiction Collective, is the author of three novels: Twiddledum Twaddledum, Crash-landing, and Hearsay, as well as three...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2010/09/music/persuasive-percussion/
Persuasive Percussion - The Brooklyn Rail
When I was in the eighth grade, my music class consisted of singing off-pitch choral exercises and learning to play “Hot Cross Buns” on the ear-piercing...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/julie-kocsis/
Julie Kocsis - The Brooklyn Rail
JULIE KOCSIS is a Manhattan-based music critic. She is the associate editor and a music writer at ShortAndSweetNYC.com.
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Dance - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Pirooz-Kalayeh/
Pirooz Kalayeh - The Brooklyn Rail
Pirooz Kalayeh is a filmmaker, artist, and author. His films include SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL, THE HUMAN WAR, BRAD WARNER'S HARDCORE ZEN, ZOMBIE...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Nancy-Olnick/
Nancy Olnick - The Brooklyn Rail
NANCY OLNICK is Co-Founder of Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, NY
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/the-florence-johnson-collective/
The Florence Johnson Collective - The Brooklyn Rail
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Molly Gallentine - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/mario-benedetti/
Mario Benedetti - The Brooklyn Rail
MARIO BENEDETTI (September 14, 1920 – May 17, 2009), born in Pasa de los Toros, Tacuarembó Province, Uruguay, was one of Latin America’s most renowned and...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Joe-Milazzo/
Joe Milazzo - The Brooklyn Rail
Joe Milazzo is a writer, editor, educator, and designer. He is the author of the novel Crepuscule W/ Nellie (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) and two collections...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/annissa-malvoisin/
Annissa Malvoisin - The Brooklyn Rail
Dr Annissa Malvoisin is Associate Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Affiliated Faculty at the Bard Graduate Center. Her scholarship...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/lisa-selin-davis/
Lisa Selin Davis - The Brooklyn Rail
Lisa Selin Davis is a writer based in Park Slope.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/cora-fisher/
Cora Fisher - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/dara-greenwald/
Dara Greenwald - The Brooklyn Rail
Dara Greenwald is a writer, social artist, and media maker. You can check out her work at www.daragreenwald.com.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Alpesh-Kantilal-Patel/
Alpesh Kantilal Patel - The Brooklyn Rail
Alpesh Kantilal Patel is associate professor of contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. His art historical scholarship,...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Chris-Dercon/
Chris Dercon - The Brooklyn Rail
Chris Dercon is Director Emeritus of London's Tate Modern. This autumn he assumes the directorship of the Volks Theater in Berlin.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Merel-van-Helsdingen/
Merel van Helsdingen - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Jordan-A-Rothacker/
Jordan A. Rothacker - The Brooklyn Rail
Jordan A. Rothacker is the author of the novels: The Pit, and No Other Stories (Black Hill Press, 2015); And Wind Will Wash Away (Deeds, 2016); and My Shadow...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/charly-himmel/
Charly Himmel - The Brooklyn Rail
CHARLY HIMMEL is a D.J., artist, and Brooklyn College graduate from Chicago.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/naomi-s-antonakos/
Naomi S. Antonakos - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Suzanne-Silver/
Suzanne Silver - The Brooklyn Rail
Suzanne Silver is an artist living and working in Columbus, Ohio where she is Associate Professor of Art at The Ohio State University. Silver has exhibited her...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/KEVIN-KILLIAN/
Kevin Killian - The Brooklyn Rail
Kevin Killian (1952–2019) was a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. Recent books include Selected Amazon Reviews (2024) and the...
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The Brooklyn Rail Store
The store of the Brooklyn Rail and Rail Editions publishers of books of art, and literary criticism, poetry, experimental fiction, prose meditation, artists’...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Michael-Menchaca/
Michael Menchaca - The Brooklyn Rail
Michael Menchaca is an interdisciplinary Xicanx artist based in San Antonio, TX. They work in print media and new media formats to generate anti-colonial,...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/sarah-dziedzic/
Sarah Dziedzic - The Brooklyn Rail
SARAH DZIEDZIC holds an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University and has contributed to oral-history projects at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Krista-Gay/
Krista Gay - The Brooklyn Rail
Krista Gay is an artist, sound designer, writer, based in New York.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Tassity-Johnson/
Tassity Johnson - The Brooklyn Rail
Tassity Johnson is from Houston, Texas, and lives in Washington, D.C. She has previously been published in the Brooklyn Rail.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Hannah-Chang-Foster/
Hannah Chang Foster - The Brooklyn Rail
Hannah Chang Foster is a writer and former professional ballet dancer whose articles on everything from artist-flavored macarons to perfumed plays have...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/mark-swartz/
Mark Swartz - The Brooklyn Rail
Mark Swartz is a writer who lives in Brooklyn.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Amy-Gottfried/
Amy Gottfried - The Brooklyn Rail
Amy Gottfried is an author. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as Glimmer Train, Adirondack Review, Blunderbuss, and Passager, among others. She is the...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/laura-barcella/
Laura Barcella - The Brooklyn Rail
Laura Barcella is a freelance writer based in Park Slope.
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Annette An-Jen Liu - The Brooklyn Rail
Annette An-Jen Liu is a Taiwanese writer and early-career curator working between Taipei and New York City. Her practice is informed by her studies in...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/christopher-knight/
Christopher Knight - The Brooklyn Rail
Los Angeles Times art critic CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT is a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/zachary-r-mannheimer/
Zachary R. Mannheimer - The Brooklyn Rail
ZACHARY R. MANNHEIMER is the Artistic Director The Subjective Theatre Company.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/sabrina-seelig/
Sabrina Seelig - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/john-yau/
John Yau - The Brooklyn Rail
JOHN YAU has just completed a book of essays, The Wild Children of William Blake.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/hannah-sage-kay/
Hannah Sage Kay - The Brooklyn Rail
Hannah Sage Kay is an arts writer and critic based between New York and Los Angeles, who has contributed to Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Autre, BOMB, Financial...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/E-Minassian/
E. Minassian - The Brooklyn Rail
E. Minassian is a part of the publishing collective Niet!, as well as the blog Les Serpents de la Mer, both engaged in critical social theory. He spent several...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/michelle-memran/
Michelle Memran - The Brooklyn Rail
MICHELLE MEMRAN is a freelance writer and filmmaker living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Dana Kopel - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/sophia-al-marri/
Sophia Al-Marri - The Brooklyn Rail
SOPHIA AL-MARRI is a Qatari-American writer/cartoonist by day and bookstore clerk by night.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/paul-vangelisti/
Paul Vangelisti - The Brooklyn Rail
Paul Vangelisti has published more than thirty books of poetry and is a noted translator from Italian. He lives in Pasadena and Bagnone (Italy). In 2006, Lucia...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/roberto-c-ferrari/
Roberto C. Ferrari - The Brooklyn Rail
Roberto C. Ferrari is the Curator of Art Properties at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Dale-Martin-Smith/
Dale Martin Smith - The Brooklyn Rail
Dale Martin Smith is a poet. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with the poet Hoa Nguyen.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/eric-v-white/
Eric V. White - The Brooklyn Rail
Eric V. White is a writer living in Manhattan.
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December/January 2023–24 – The Brooklyn Rail
Featuring interviews with Kay Rosen, Tony Bechara, Tracey Emin, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Guest Critic Douglas Dreishpoon: “Still Striking: Art and Aging.”...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Allison-Moore/
Allison Moore - The Brooklyn Rail
Allison Moore is the author of Embodying Relation: Art Photography in Mali (Duke University Press, 2020) and recently earned an MFA in Poetry from Pacific...
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A. Hennighausen - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/robert-berlind/
Robert Berlind - The Brooklyn Rail
ROBERT BERLIND is a painter and writer who lives in New York and upstate in Sullivan County. He has received the American Academy and Institute of Arts and...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/john-zinsser/
John Zinsser - The Brooklyn Rail
Zinsser is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/ben-la-rocco/
Ben La Rocco - The Brooklyn Rail
Ben La Rocco is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/tara-sheena/
Tara Sheena - The Brooklyn Rail
TARA SHEENA is a dancer and writer from Detroit. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
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Irmgard Keun - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/steven-poser/
Steven Poser - The Brooklyn Rail
Steven Poser teaches clinical writing at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York. He has been an exhibiting painter for more than 20 years.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Hong-An-Truong/
Hồng-Ân Trương - The Brooklyn Rail
Hồng-Ân Trương is an artist, writer, and activist based in Durham, North Carolina. She is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/jean-giono/
Jean Giono - The Brooklyn Rail
Jean Giono was born in Manosque, in southeastern France, in 1895. He was largely self-taught. His experiences serving as an infantryman in World War I set the...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Seth-Brodsky/
Seth Brodsky - The Brooklyn Rail
Seth Brodsky is an Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities, and the director of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. He...
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/lytle-shaw/
Lytle Shaw - The Brooklyn Rail
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Our Supporters - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/gretchen-schmid/
Gretchen Schmid - The Brooklyn Rail
GRETCHEN SCHMID writes reviews and criticism about art, music, dance, and literature in translation. She works as a literary sub-agent and lives in Brooklyn.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Priscilla-Solis-Ybarra/
Priscilla Solis Ybarra - The Brooklyn Rail
Priscilla Solis Ybarra is a writer and a professor at the University of North Texas, and she enjoys walking around.
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Alana-Pockros/
Alana Pockros - The Brooklyn Rail
Alana Pockros is a New York-based writer and graduate student. Her writing on politics, art, and visual culture has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Cleveland...
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Aren K. Yama - The Brooklyn Rail
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Jana Prikryl - The Brooklyn Rail
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/10/artseen/willie-birch-up-on-the-roof/
Willie Birch: Up on the Roof - The Brooklyn Rail
The title of Willie Birch’s solo exhibition at Fort Gansevoort, Up on the Roof, is partly descriptive of the artist’s 2022 work, Two Roofers and a Ladder....
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https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/ariel-stess/
Ariel Stess - The Brooklyn Rail
ARI STESS is a Brooklyn-based playwright and director originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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