The Nonschool

Michael Bible is a novelist and screenwriter living in Manhattan. He is the author of the novels Sophia, Empire of Light, The Ancient Hours (Melville House) and Little Lazarus (Clash Books). His books are translated into Spanish (Gatopardo Editions) and into Italian (Adelphi Editions). His work can be seen in The Oxford American, The Baffler, Paris Review Daily, New York Tyrant, and Forever Magazine. He wrote the feature film Dogleg, now streaming on MUBI. 

Izzy Casey is a poet and writer published in the Yale Review, the Columbia Review, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Corriere della Sera, and more. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded runner-up for the John Logan Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature & the Arts, Bennington College, and the Poetry Foundation.  

Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. Her work has appeared in GQ, Interview Magazine, Flaunt, Nylon, Grand, and the Whitney Review of Books. She teaches in the Writing program at Pratt Institute and edits Forever Magazine. Her first book, FLAT EARTH is out Fall 2025 from Catapult.