 | Elatia HarrisElatia Harris is a personal chef and cooking teacher in Cambridge, Massachusettes. Website: http://www.lucysmomcuisine.com Email: elatia [at] lucysmomcuisine.com |
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Kevin Scott Baldwin
 | Kevin Scott Baldwin is an Associate Professor of Biology at Monmouth College in Western Illinois, where he lives with his wife and three children. He has written previously for The Evolutionary Review. Email: kbaldwin [at] monm.edu List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Maniza Naqvi
 | Maniza Naqvi writes fiction. Her novels are: Mass Transit (OUP, Karachi, 1998); On Air (OUP, Karachi, 2000); Stay With Me (SAMA, Karachi 2004; Tara Press, India 2005); A Matter of Detail (SAMA, 2008; Tara Press, 2008); Sarajevo Saturdays (SAMA, 2009). Her short story “An Impossible Shade of Home Brew” is included in the anthology And then the World Changed (Feminst Press, 2008). Her short story “A Brief Acquaintaince” is included in Neither Night Nor Day (Harper Collins, 2007). Email: manizanaqvi195 [at] hotmail.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order: |
Hasan Altaf
 | Hasan Altaf, a graduate of New York University and Johns Hopkins University, is a writer currently based in Washington, DC. Email: hasan.altaf [at] gmail.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Tom Jacobs
 | Tom Jacobs is an assistant professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where he teaches a range of classes in writing and literature. He received a Ph.D from New York University in American Literature and lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Email: tjacob02 [at] nyit.edu List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order: |
Haider Shahbaz
 | Haider is a Pakistani. An undergraduate. At Yale. All these things baffle him. He spends most of his time trying to cope with his bafflement at these and other things. He copes with it by talking to things and people around him and taking various colorful intoxicants. When sane, Haider enjoys South Asian History, English Literature and Film because they allow him to read a lot of books, watch a lot of movies and then act painfully pretentious about them. He, also, tries very hard not to eat cute furry animals and his dream is to obliterate their suffering. That is not his only dream though. Since having spent two years in the countryside in Wales he wants to live atop a mountain with lots of sheep and secretly wants his cottage to become a pilgrimage site after he dies. Email: hshahbaz [at] gmail.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Alyssa Pelish
 | Alyssa Pelish has studied modernist literature and neuroscience, is an itinerant instructor of literature and writing, a frequent reviewer for Rain Taxi, and is currently at work on a novel. Email: alyssa.pelish [at] gmail.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Azra Raza
 | Azra was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and is an oncologist and research scientist by profession. She lives in Manhattan with her daughter Sheherzad. In these scoundrel times, she is convinced that the best way “to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world” is by promoting and publicizing the achievements of humanity in science, art, and literature. She is specially moved by fine poetry. Email: araza [at] aptiumoncology [dot] com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order: |
Jenny White
 | Jenny White is an associate professor of social anthropology at Boston University and author of the prize-winning Islamist Mobilization in Turkey (University of Washington) and Money Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey (Routledge). She also writes mystery/thrillers set in nineteenth-century Istanbul: The Sultan’s Seal (W. W. Norton, 2006), The Abyssinian Proof (2008), and The Winter Thief (2010). The Sultan’s Seal was translated into fourteen languages and shortlisted for the 2006 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award. Jenny grew up in Germany and New York, spent eight years in Turkey, and now lives in the Boston area. She also writes a blog about contemporary Turkey: http://kamilpasha.com. Email: jennywhit [at] gmail.com Website: http://jennywhite.net List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Dave Maier
 | Dave Maier spent many years as a radio DJ, but after even public radio turned hostile to esoteric music, he left to study philosophy at Columbia. Now, after earning a Ph. D. in the subject, he spends far too much time reading and not nearly enough time writing. He blogs, or has blogged, at duckrabbit.blogspot.com, where at least there is some good stuff in the archives. Email: duck1887 [at] hotmail.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Tauriq Moosa
 | Tauriq Moosa is contributing editor to Secular Humanist Bulletin, the newsletter for the Council for Secular Humanism. He is also a contributor to Skeptic magazine and Butterfliesandwheels.com. He has been published and translated for a number of European humanist organisations, including the Swedish Humanist Association and the Polish Rationalist Association. He has appeared on radio and local media. He obtained a B.Soc.Sci from the University of Cape Town. He is currently doing a Masters in Philosophy, specialising in Bioethics, at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Stellenbosch University. Email: tauriq.moosa [at] fsi.org.za List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Robert P. Baird
 | Robert P. Baird recently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and is the former editor of Chicago Review. His work has appeared in Poetry, Narrative, Slate, Bookforum, and the New York Observer. Find links to his writing at robertpbaird.com or follow him on Twitter @bobbybaird. He lives in Kampala, Uganda. List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order: |
Sughra Raza
 | Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra, and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and inspite of Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away. Email: sraza1 [at] partners.org |
Omar Ali
 | Omar Ali MD is a Pakistani-American academic physician with a research interest in the genetics and epigenetics of obesity. He is also interested in peace in South Asia and moderates the Asiapeace discussion group. Other interests include history and the public understanding of science. In a previous life, Dr Ali was also a book reviewer for the Pakistani magazine “Herald”. Email: omarali502000 [at] yahoo.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Jonathan Halvorson
 | Jonathan has degrees in Philosophy from Columbia University and Reed College. After teaching at Washington University, he left academia, made an abortive foray into campaign politics, then hit on the obvious choice to join a health insurance company, where he presently serves as a Director. Jonathan splits his time between New York City and Easton, PA, with his exemplary wife and two superlative children. Email: jonathan.halvorson [at] gmail [dot] com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Tolu Ogunlesi
 | Tolu Ogunlesi works as a journalist in Lagos, Nigeria. He was awarded a 2009 CNN Multichoice African Journalism Prize, in the Arts & Culture category. Before now he has worked as a pharmacist, a management consultant and a corporate communications executive. In 2008 he was a Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden; and in 2009 a Cadbury Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham, England. His work has been translated into Dutch, Latvian, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish. He owns one digital camera, two lenses and plenty of hope for a successful career in photography. When he isn’t travelling he is busy looking forward to travelling. The rest of the time he is to be found contemplating starting a novel. Email: tolu.ogunlesi [at] gmail.com Website: www.toluogunlesi.wordpress.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order: |
James McGirk
 | James McGirk is an MFA student at Columbia University. His bylines include TIME Asia, More Intelligent Life, Foreign Policy and The L Magazine. For more information you are welcome to visit his website at jamesmcgirk.com. Email: james.mcgirk [at] caa.columbia.edu List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Dave Munger
 | Dave Munger is a writer living in Davidson, North Carolina. He is a columnist for SEEDMAGAZINE.COM and editor of ResearchBlogging.org. Dave co-founded ResearchBlogging.org, which collects blog posts about peer-reviewed research, in 2007. The site now has over 1,500 registered blogs and features over 16,000 posts in six languages. For five years, Dave and his wife Greta maintained the psychology blog Cognitive Daily, which was chosen three times to appear in the Open Laboratory, an annual anthology of the top science blog posts on the web. It has appeared on numerous top ten lists including ranking seventh on Nature’s 50 popular science blogs list. The site has had over 2.5 million visits. Dave is the author of several college textbooks. Email: dsmunger [at] gmail.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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Justin E. H. Smith
 | Justin E. H. Smith is an American essayist, journalist, and satirist based in Montreal. He doesn’t want to write satire, but, as Juvenal said, the world leaves him no choice. He is a regular contributor to Counterpunch, and has written for numerous other online publications, including N+1. His work has been linked or cited in the online editions of the Guardian, the Atlantic Monthly, the Stranger, the Washington Post, and (probably a mistake) the National Review. His archive, www.jehsmith.com, brings together writing of his available on the Internet. Quite apart from all this, Smith is also a professor of philosophy and a specialist on the life and work of G. W. Leibniz. To see his academic profile, please visit www.jehsmith.com/philosophy. Email: [email protected] List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order: |
Akim Reinhardt
 | Akim Reinhardt is an associate professor of History at Towson University in Maryland. Born and raised in the Bronx, he has also lived in Michigan, Nebraska, and Arizona. He currently resides in a Baltimore row home that he shares with a very old but surprisingly resilient cat. He is the author of Ruling Pine Ridge (2007) and blogs regularly at ThePublicProfessor.com. Email: yankeeslim [at] gmail.com List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:
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