Hugh Dancy played Will Graham in Hannibal, for which he earned a Saturn Award and two Critics’ Choice nominations. Additional film and television credits include Black Hawk Down, Ella Enchanted, King Arthur, Adam, the television mini-series Elizabeth I, for which he received an Emmy nomination, Blood and Chocolate, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Big C, Deadline Gallipoli, The Path, Late Night, Homeland, The Good Fight, and Downton Abbey: A New Era. On stage, he starred off-Broadway in The Pride and Apologia, and on Broadway in Venus in Fur and the revival of Journey’s End. Dancy currently stars in the reboot of Law & Order and is the voice of Otto Octavius in the animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
Laura Gómez is an actress and writer best known for her role as Bianca Flores on Orange Is the New Black. She has been featured on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Samba, for which she was nominated for the La Scilla Award for Best Supporting Actress, Exposed, Upon Entry, Safari, and the 2024 films Mariposas Negras and La Cocina. Gómez has directed three short films, The Iron Warehouse, Hallelujah, and To Kill a Roach, which won the NYU Technisphere Award in 2012. She is a member of Women Artists Writing, a non-profit group giving voices to female theater artists. Gómez can be seen in the forthcoming short film Juanita.
Greg Jackson is the author of the story collection Prodigals, for which he received the Bard Fiction Prize and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, Conjunctions, and The Point, among other places, and his nonfiction has been anthologized in The Best American Essays. In 2017 Granta selected him for their list of Best Young American Novelists. His novel The Dimensions of a Cave will be published in October 2023.
N. K. Jemisin is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author whose works include the novels The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Killing Moon, The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky, The City We Became, The World We Make, and the short story collection How Long ’Til Black Future Month? Jemisin is the first author to win three consecutive Hugo Awards, as well as the Locus and Nebula awards. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Weird Tales, WIRED, Helix, Strange Horizons, Popular Science, and TheNew York Times Book Review, among other publications. She also collaborated with artist Jamal Campbell on the comic book series Far Sector.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, among other books. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel. Wolitzer hosts the radio show and podcast of Selected Shorts.
CREDITS
“The Elevator Dancer” by N.K. Jemisin, from How Long ’Til Black Future Month? (Orbit, 2018). Copyright © 2018 by N.K. Jemisin. Used by permission of the author.
“The Hollow” by Greg Jackson. Copyright © 2021 by Greg Jackson. Originally appeared in The New Yorker. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the author.
