Contributors

Jennifer Baumgardner is the editor of LIBER. She is the former executive director at the Feminist Press, the publisher of Dottir Press, and the Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College.

Jessica Baumgardner is a writer who lives in Los Angeles.

Kian Braulik is a freelance writer and an editorial assistant at Boston Review.

adrienne maree brown is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. Some of her books include Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, and the speculative fiction trilogy Grievers. She is the editor of the Emergent Strategy Series.

Charis Caputo is the senior editor of LIBER. She lives in Queens, New York.

Diane Gelon is an American entertainment attorney based in London as well as a producer and the board president of Through the Flower, the non-profit foundation created in 1977 by the artist Judy Chicago.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen books of poems, most recently Calligraphies (Norton, 2023), as well as the translator of twenty-four books by French and Francophone poets, including Samira Negrouche and Claire Malroux.

Kathleen Hurlock is a feminist teacher and writer based in Athens, GA, whose work focuses on reproductive justice, women’s literature, and contemporary applications of second-wave feminist theory.

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is a literary biographer and the former Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, California. Her book Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb will be published fall 2024 by the University of California Press.

Jana Leo is an artist and writer who lives in New York. She is the author of Rape New York. Her work has been shown internationally in museums such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the International Center of Photography in New York.

Pat Lipsky is a painter and writer. Her art has been exhibited in the André Emmerich Gallery and more recently the James Fuentes Gallery, among others. Her writing appears in Tablet, The New Criterion, The East Hampton Star, The Awl, and Public Books. Her book Brightening Glance will be published in October 2025 by University of Iowa Press. She lives in Chelsea, New York.

Noelle McManus is a writer-poet-linguist from Long Island, New York. Their work has appeared in Eclectica, Redivider, Vagabond City Press, and elsewhere. In addition to working as an editorial assistant at LIBER, they are a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow.

Aline Mello is a writer and editor originally from Brazil. She is an Undocupoet fellow and a graduate student at The Ohio State University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. Her debut poetry collection, More Salt than Diamond, was published by Andrews McMeel in March 2022. 

Lori O’Dea is a fiction writer and literary critic living in Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Rain Taxi, Bridge, the Gay & Lesbian Review, and other publications. She reviews contemporary literature with a focus on works in translation and/or by LGBTQ authors and is currently writing a novel.

Diem Okoye is a writer and teacher. She lives with two German Shepherds and two neurotic cats. She moonlights as a copyeditor and loves spending time with her family and friends. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Gay & Lesbian Review, Reckoning, and elsewhere.

Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, and essayist living in Toronto. Her next poetry collection, The Widow’s Crayon Box, is forthcoming from Norton in November.

Tara Perkins is a writer and artist manager. 

Alissa Quart is an American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet, and the ​​executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that funds independent reporters covering social inequality

Evangeline Riddiford Graham is the author of the poetry chapbooks la belle dame avec les mains vertes and Ginesthoi. Her recent and forthcoming writing can be found in Electric Literature, Divagations, Landfall, Art News, and Poets & Writers. She is host and producer of the poetry podcast Multiverse and senior managing editor of Public Seminar

Rebecca Saltzman is the assistant editor of LIBER. Her writing appears in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from NYU and lives in New York City.

Mya Spalter is a poet, editor, and the author of Enchantments (The Dial Press, 2022) and the chapbook Crush Reactor (2019). She performed with the 25th anniversary tour of Sister Spit (in 2022) and has been awarded fellowships from Brooklyn Poets and Cave Canem.

Debbie Stoller is the cofounder of BUST magazine and served as its editor-in-chief from 1993-2023. She holds a PhD in the Psychology of Women.

Laurie Stone is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now, long-listed for the the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She writes the acclaimed Substack Everything Is Personal. 

Bekah Waalkes is a PhD candidate in literature at Tufts University.

McKenzie Wark is professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the New School. Her books include Raving, Capital Is Dead, Reverse Cowgirl, and Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker.

Hilde Weisert is a poet, writer, and teacher. Her poems have appeared in Ms., Prairie Schooner, The Sun, and Southern Poetry Review. She is a Geraldine Dodge Poet and a 2009, 2016, and 2020 resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Bett Williams is the author of The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey (Dottir Press, 2020), which has been optioned for television by Amblin Entertainment. Her other books are Girl Walking Backwards (St. Martin’s Press) and The Wrestling Party (Alyson Press). 

Deborah Williams is a clinical professor of liberal studies at NYU and author of  The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2023). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Rumpus, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere. 

Mary-Kate Wilson is a Washington, D.C- based writer and editorial intern of LIBER. Her previous historical writing has been published on Boundary Stones. 

Carmen Winant is a photographer and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University. Her installation The Last Safe Abortion is part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial.