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Rachel Yoder
Rachel Yoder is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. She holds M.F.As from the University of Arizona (fiction) and the University of Iowa (nonfiction), where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow...

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Nightbitch

Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honors. His first book, I Contain ...

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I Contain Multitudes

David Yoon
David Yoon grew up in Orange County, California, and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Nicola Yoon, and their daughter. He drew the illustrations for Nicola's #1 New York Times ...

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Super Fake Love Song

Emily Jungmin Yoon
Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes, the 2017 winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize by Tupelo Press. Yoon was born in Busan, Republic of Korea and received her BA at the ...

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A Cruelty Special to Our Species

Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn and lives in Los Angeles with her family. She's also a hopeless romantic ...

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The Sun Is Also a Star

Paul Yoon
Paul Yoon is the author of two story collections, Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and The Mountain, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year. His novel Snow Hunters won the ...

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Run Me to Earth

Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto is the author of the international bestseller Kitchen. She has published ten books in English translation, including Goodbye Tsugumi, Asleep, and Moshi Moshi. Her work has been ...

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The Lake
Dead-End Memories

Monica Youn
Monica Youn was raised in Houston, Texas. A former Stegner Fellow, she has published poems in numerous anthologies and journals, including Agni, Fence, and Poetry. She currently lives in Manhattan, ...

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