Stephanie Wambugu was born in Mombasa, Kenya in 1998 and grew up in Rhode Island. She lives and works in New York, where she received her MFA from Columbia University. Learn more >
Kaveh Akbar'spoems appear in The New Yorker, the New York Times, TheParis Review, TheBest American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine and, with Paige Lewis, co-editor of Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction & Deliverance. His debut novel, Martyr!, was a New York Times bestseller, one of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year, the 2024 recipient of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Prize finalist, and a National Book Award Finalist. Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in Iowa. His work has been translated into over 30 languages.
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Stephanie Wambugu was born in Mombasa, Kenya in 1998 and grew up in Rhode Island. She lives and works in New York, where she received her MFA from Columbia University. She is an editor of Joyland Magazine. Lonely Crowds is her first novel.
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