Little Rebellions

Nate Corddry is an actor, comedian, and writer who has recently been featured on the television series Fosse/Verdon, Mindhunter, For All Mankind, and Perry Mason. Additional film and television credits include Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; United States of Tara; Harry’s Law; Childrens Hospital; TRON: Uprising; St. Vincent; The Heat; Mom; The Hindenburg Explodes!; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; The Circle; New Girl; Ghostbusters; Tammy’s Tiny Tea Time; Standing Up, Falling Down; and as a correspondent on The Daily Show.

Ann Dowd won the 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. For her work on the show, she also won a Critics’ Choice Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, as well as multiple Screen Actors Guild awards. Dowd previously received an Emmy nomination for her role on the beloved HBO series The Leftovers. On the big screen, Dowd was honored with a Best Supporting Actress Award from the National Board of Review for her performance in the psychological thriller Compliance, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and Critics' Choice Award. Additional film credits include Hereditary, Philadelphia, Captain Fantastic, Marley & Me, The Manchurian Candidate, and the upcoming Rebecca. Dowd’s television career highlights include an acclaimed performance in Olive Kitteridge, recurring roles on Good Behavior, Masters of Sex, Quarry, Nothing Sacred, Judging Amy, Third Watch, Freaks and Geeks, and memorable appearances on True Detective, Louie, Girls, House, Chicago Hope, The X-Files, and NYPD Blue. She has portrayed nine different characters in the Law & Order franchise. In 2019, Dowd co-starred in the Foxtel series Lambs of God, which was nominated for 18 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, including a lead actress nod for Dowd. Upcoming projects include Shoot the Rooster and The President Is Missing.

Roxane Gay is the author of numerous essay collections and works of fiction, including Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger, as well as the comic series World of Wakanda. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Tin House, The New York Times, Rumpus, Oxford American, Salon, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Time. She is the founder of Tiny Hardcore Press and founding editor of PANK, and editor of collections including Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture and the 2018 edition of TheBest American Short Stories. She is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Purdue University. Recent works include Graceful Burdens, The Banks with artist Ming Doyle, the graphic novel The Sacrifice of Darkness, and as editor of The Selected Works of Audre Lorde.

Haruki Murakami is the author of numerous best-selling novels, short story collections, and works of nonfiction, including The Elephant Vanishes, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Underground, Kafka on the Shore, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, 1Q84, Men Without Women, and most recently, Killing Commendatore. His stories have appeared in English in The New Yorker, Granta, and numerous other publications. He has been honored with the Franz Kafka Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, among others. Murakami’s work has been translated into 50 languages.

Randall Park is an actor, writer, director, and producer best known for his leading role on Fresh Off the Boat, for which he was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. Additional film and television credits include The Interview, Veep, Trainwreck, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Aquaman, and Always Be My Maybe, which he also wrote and produced. Park recently launched the production company Imminent Collision. He can currently be seen in Marvel Studios series WandaVision.

Robert Sheckley (1928 - 2005) was a science fiction and fantasy writer. He published numerous novels and short story collections, and his work has been featured in science fiction magazines including Galaxy, Imagination, Weird Tales, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among other publications. Sheckley collaborated with many writers throughout his career and briefly served as the science fiction editor of OMNI magazine. Several of Sheckley’s novels and short stories have been adapted as films and television movies, such as The 10th Victim, which was based on the story “The Seventh Victim.” In addition to his original work, Sheckley wrote adaptational novelizations set in the Alien, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Babylon 5 universes.

Elizabeth Winthrop is the author of more than sixty works of fiction for all ages. Her award-winning titles for children include The Castle in the Attic series, Counting on Grace, and the picture books Shoes and Dumpy La Rue. Her short story “The Golden Darters” was a selection of American Short Fiction and Best American Short Stories. She has recently completed a memoir entitled Daughter of Spies: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies about growing up in the politically charged atmosphere of Cold War Washington. The daughter of the political journalist Stewart Alsop, she divides her time between New York City and the Berkshires.