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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 latest book, Notes from the Third Floor, is forthcoming in English by And Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation […]
Afonso Cruz, born in 1971, is a multidisciplinary artist, author of more than 40 books, including novels, theatre plays, picture books, young adult novels, poetry, photo-text, 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 […]
Alexander Chee is a recipient of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Ledig House, the Hermitage, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. His first novel, Edinburgh (2001), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the […]
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestselling essay collection, and a novel, The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Oxford American, A Public Space, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, and the New York Times, […]
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, as well as the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don’t Cry. Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the feature film of the same name. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, […]