Casey Cep (“On Native Grounds,” p. 28), a staff writer, is the author of “Furious Hours.”
Parul Sehgal (“The Phantasm,” p. 14), a staff writer since 2021, teaches in the graduate creative-writing program at New York University. She received a Silvers-Dudley Prize for literary criticism in 2023.
Cynan Jones (Fiction, p. 50) is a writer from the west coast of Wales. His novels include “Cove,” “The Dig,” and, most recently, “Stillicide.”
Faith Ringgold (Cover), an artist, a writer, and a teacher, is known for her pictorial quilts. She died last month.
Robert Sullivan (The Talk of the Town, p. 10) is the author of, most recently, “Double Exposure.”
Paul Tran (Poem, p. 32), a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, published their début poetry collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling,” in 2022. They…