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Jonathan Dee is the author of five novels, most recently The Privileges, which The Washington Post called scintillating.  He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper’s, and a former senior editor of The Paris Review.  He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and the New School.

Adam Haslett is the author of the novel Union Atlantic and the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and has been translated into fifteen languages.  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, and residences at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.  His essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, and National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts.

Peter Akinti writes with a powerful, resonant voice in his debut novel, Forest Gate, set in London’s impoverished East End, where he grew up.  He read Law at London University and founded and edited Untold Magazine, the first independent British magazine for black men.  He has written for The Guardian newspaper and worked for HM Treasury Chambers.  Most recently, he spent eighteen months in Nigeria, running a restaurant, beer parlour, and cinema in Ondo Town before settling in Brooklyn.

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Behind the Book is a literacy nonprofit working with low-income students in NYC public schools.  Our mission is to excite children and young adults about reading.  Working in the 1st -12th grades, we bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and a new generation of book readers.  www.behindthebook.org