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Sarah Frances Hardy, a Mississippi native who calls Oxford home, earned a law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law, earned an art degree from Davidson College, and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris. She has exhibited her paintings in galleries throughout the Southeast as well as in … Continued

Eddie Johnson is a tribal member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, has served as the Special Projects/Media Program coordinator in the Department of Chahta Immi, and is now the tribal archivist. He is the author, with Jay Wesley, of Choctaw Traditions: Stories of the Life and Customs of the Mississippi Choctaw.

Tom Junod is senior writer for ESPN, where his work has won an Emmy and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. He is a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and a winner of the James Beard Award for essay writing. Previously he was a staff writer at GQ and at Esquire. The film A … Continued

Nicholas Lemann is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Journalism School. He is the author of The Promised Land, The Big Test, Redemption, and Transaction Man. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, he lives in New York. Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries is his latest book.  

Sarah Thankam Mathews is the author of All This Could Be Different, which was shortlisted for the Discover Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and 2022 National Book Award in fiction. Mathews’s debut novel was also a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, The … Continued