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Laila Lalami
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Laila Lalami

How to pronounce Laila Lalami: LAY-luh LAH-luh-mee

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    Scott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused on the relationship between memory, ... (more)

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  • Ling Ma

    Ling Ma

    Ling Ma was born in Sanming, China, and grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She attended the University of Chicago and received an MFA from Cornell University. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and an ... (more)

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  • Nnedi Okorafor

    Nnedi Okorafor

    Nnedi Okorafor is the author of multiple award-winning and New York Times bestsellers, including the Binti trilogy, Who Fears Death, and Lagoon, currently in development at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. She has won... (more)

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    Noor
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