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Christopher Cerf is an author, producer, composer-lyricist, semi-bestselling humorist, and co-founder and president of the educational media company, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., where he co-created and co-produced the multiple award-winning PBS children’s literacy show, Between the Lions. Cerf has won three Emmys and two Grammys for his musical contributions to Sesame Street; was a senior editor […]
Molly Antopol’s debut story collection, The UnAmericans, won the a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and France’s Translation Prize. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award; was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the National Jewish Book […]
Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, and Slow Burn. Her short story collection The Caprices was the winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award. Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charilie Chan is Dead II: An […]
John Hennessy is the author of three collections, Coney Island Pilgrims, Bridge and Tunnel, and Exit Garden State (new from Lost Horse Press/Washington State UP), poems from which appear in multiple editions of The Best American Poetry, The Believer, Harvard Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. With Ostap […]
Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar, photographer, and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction […]
M. T. Anderson writes both for young people and adults, with his output ranging from picture books to pieces in the New York Times. His satirical novel FEED was a Finalist for National Book Award and a winner of the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His Gothic novel of the American Revolution, THE POX […]
Susana Moreira Marques is the author of four books of literary non-fiction and one book for children. Her work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation (Colombia), the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), Art OMI (US), amongst others. She also writes for […]
Afonso Cruz, born in 1971, is a multidisciplinary artist, author of more than 40 books, among novels, theatre plays, picture books, juvenile novellas, poetry, phototext and essays. His books have been published in more than 20 languages and have received many awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature for the novel Kokoschka’s Doll.
Pedro Mexia is a writer and a literary critic who lives in Lisbon. He writes reviews and a weekly column for Expresso, and also works for radio and TV. He has published twenty books (including collections of newspaper columns, journals, and poetry), and coordinates the poetry collection of the publishing house Tinta-da-China. His books of […]
Elaine Avila is the Playwright in Residence at Quest University Canada, and has had residencies at Pomona College, Western Washington University and the Playwrights Theatre Centre. Her plays have been produced in Panama City, Sintra, Pico, Costa Rica, London, New York, Los Angeles, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria and include: Jane Austen, Action Figure (Winner, Best New Play, Festival de los Cocos, Panama City) Lieutenant […]