Contributors

Libby Bachhuber, LCSW, provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision through her independent practice in Chicago and serves as clinical associate faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Her work engages with the social, political, and spiritual concerns that run through patients' lives, including issues involving gender, race, and climate. She has facilitated reflective processes with a range of groups, including activists, elementary school teachers, and psychotherapists.

Catherine Baker-Pitts, PhD, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City who cares a lot about body liberation, gender expansiveness, sexual freedom, and body nonconformity. She offers gender-affirmative care and practices from a harm-reduction model. She earned degrees from Duke University, the University of Texas at Austin, and New York University, in addition to multiple postgraduate psychoanalytic certificates. She has published scholarly articles and chapters for books in the field of gender and sexuality. She is a graduate and guest faculty at New Directions, a writing program with a psychoanalytic edge in Washington, DC.

Philip Brunetti writes innovative fiction and poetry, and much of his work has been published in various online or paper literary magazines, including the Boiler, the Wax Paper, and Identity Theory. His debut novel, Newer Testaments, published in 2020 by Atmosphere Press, has been described in the Independent Book Review as “an innovative existential novel told through hallucinatory poetics” and is available for purchase.

Richard Grose, PhD, is a psychoanalyst who is a member of ROOM's editorial board and book review editor for ROOM. He is interested in how culture and psychoanalysis can illuminate each other. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.

Mirjam Meerschwam Hadar translates Hebrew texts on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and culture studies, and sometimes fiction, into English. She works in Tel Aviv