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From left to right: Minh Nguyen, Abdellah Taïa, and Zoé Samudzi

Public Parking Publication is delighted to announce the participants in our 2026 editorial residency. For this program, we aim to work with thinkers who are adjacent to or outside the realm of the arts as part of Public Parking’s ongoing efforts to broaden the scope of ideas we feature and the communities we reach. This project invites guest editors to serve as residents of the publication for an extended 12-month period. Throughout this time, they will work with our team to publish a series of texts, either self-written or in collaboration with other writers of their choosing. Previously, we've hosted eunice bélidor, Tammer El-Sheikh, Amy Fung, Nasrin Himada, and Shiv Kotecha.

This year we are honoured to have host Minh Nguyen, Abdellah Taïa, and Zoé Samudzi.

Minh Nguyen is a writer and curator. She is the director and curator of Dogma Collection in Ho Chi Minh City, and is on the editorial team of e-flux journal. She has organized exhibitions and film programs at Metrograph, Wing Luke Museum, Gene Siskel Film Center, and Chicago Cultural Center. Her art and film criticism has appeared in publications such as e-flux, Mousse, and Momus, and she has received a Warhol Arts Writers Grant and Fogo Island Arts Writing Award. She is the author of Memorial Park (2025).

Abdellah Taïa is a French-Moroccan novelist and filmmaker. His acclaimed autobiographical novels and stories, widely translated from French, often foreground queer narratives within Arab communities. Some of his published works include 'Infidels', 'An Arab Melancholia', 'A Country for Dying', 'Living in Your Light', and 'Salvation Army', which he adapted for a full-length film. His other films, which have premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, include 'Cairo Streets' (2025), 'Cabo Negro' (2024), and 'Never Stop Shouting' (2023). His writing has also been recognized by the prestigious Prix Goncourt and Prix de Flore. He currently lives and works in Paris.

Zoé Samudzi is a Provost’s Fellow to Faculty postdoc in the Department of African-American and Africana Studies and a Global Blackness Fellow with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg. Her work contends with genocide memory and denialism, mythologies of the postcolonial African state, and the politics of visuality. Samudzi is also a writer and associate editor of Parapraxis Magazine, as well as a co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press, 2018). She is a 2026 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant grantee for her project, “The Citizen and the Anthropophage: Postwar/Postcolonial Italian Memory and the Cannibal Boom,” a 2026 resident at La Becque’s Principal Residency Program, and an awardee of the 2026 Fire Station Studios' International Curator Residency.