Rachel Kushner is an author, and her latest novel, The Flamethrowers, was published in April 2013 to great critical acclaim. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, winner of the CA Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Trinie Dalton is an author, editor, and curator. Recent titles include Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, Mythtym, and Baby Geisha. Dalton writes critically about art, books, and music for numerous magazines and websites such as Bookforum, Artforum.com, The Believer, Bomb, and many more. Walead Beshty is Los Angeles-based photographer represented by Regen Projects. Linda Norden is a distinguished curator, writer, and art historian. Norden is Director of the Amie and Tony James Gallery at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has served as Visiting Professor in the Department of Art at Yale University and Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies. Mark Godfrey teaches History and Theory of Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He writes for frieze, Artforum, OCTOBER and Parkett. Suzanne Hudson is assistant professor of art history at University of Southern California.