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Editorial Team

Nicole Terez Dutton
The David H. Lynn Editor

Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Associate Editor

Nayt Rundquist
Managing Editor

Danilo John Thomas
Assistant Managing Editor

Elizabeth Wagner
Chief Copy Editor

Sara Carminati
Copy Editor

Assistant Editors
Michael Coppola
Claire Oleson

Kenyon Review Fellows
Nicole Arocho Hernández
Hannah V Warren

Senior Editors
Andrew Grace
Geeta Kothari
Orchid Tierney
Katharine Weber

Contributing Editors
Molly McCully Brown
Oliver de la Paz
Richie Hofmann
Misha Rai

Readers
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Victoria Bosch Murray
Alyssa Quinn
Jamie Lyn Smith

Editors at Large
Ross Gay
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

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Director of Youth Programs and Fellowships

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Megan Foster
Marilyn Gates
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Pearl Tran
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Lillie Waltz
Kora Whelan
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Andrea Danese
Patricia Dunn
Carly de Castro
Christopher Eaton
James P. Finn
Ben Goldberger
Laura Gross
Mark Hollingsworth
Linda Kass
Victoria Douglass Kingdon
William Lowry
Victoria Smith McKenzie
David Munves
Jennifer Ash Rudick
Larae Schraeder
Nikki Selden
R. Alastair Short
David Hale Smith
Andrew Tint
Christopher Toft

Trustees Emeriti

Marci Barr Abbot
John Adams
David Banks
James H. Brandi
Mary Elizabeth Bunzel
Jacqueline Dryfoos
Randy Fertel
Peter Flaherty
Jean Graham
Alva G. Greenberg
Robert E. Hallinan
Paul B. Healy

Grace Keefe Huebscher
Pamela Feitler Hoehn-Saric
Daniel J. Kramer
Betty B. Robbins
Abigail Wender

Matthew Winkler
Peter White
Don Zacharia

Ex Officio

Aileen Hefferren
Julie Kornfeld

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John Crowe Ransom
Founding Editor

David H. Lynn
Editor Emeritus

Past Editors
Robie Macauley
George Lanning
Ellington White
Ronald Sharp
Frederick Turner
Philip D. Church
Galbraith M. Crump
Robert W. Daniel
William F. Klein
T.R. Hummer
Marilyn Hacker

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