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Patrícia Reis’s most recent work is The Disobedient, a biography of Maria Teresa Horta, published in 2024. Horta is the only surviving author of the well-known “Three Marias,” the trio of intrepid writers who authored the Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), the feminist manifesto that echoed around the world and scandalized the Portuguese dictatorship. […]
Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. He is a writer and a playwright. His new novel is due out in May. The True Actor (published in the US by Dzanc, translation by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis) won the 2013 Domingos da Silva Teixeira Distinguished Literature Award […]
Denis Johnson is the author of several novels, plays, and books of verse. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award. He lives in North Idaho.
Alissa Nutting is author of the novel Tampa (Ecco/HarperCollins 2013) and the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The Norton Introduction to Literature, Tin House, Bomb, and Conduit; her essays […]
Padgett Powell has published six novels-–Edisto, A Woman Named Drown (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984 and 1987), Edisto Revisited (Henry Holt, 1996), Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), The Interrogative Mood (Ecco, 2009), You & I (Profile Books, 2011)-–and two story collections, Typical (FS&G, 1991)and Aliens of Affection (Holt, 1998). Edisto made TIME’s Best-of-Year Fiction […]
KATHERINE VAZ, a former Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, is the author most recently of the novel ABOVE THE SALT (Flatiron Books/Macmillan, 2023), a People Magazine Book of the Week, a Top 15 Pick of […]
New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his end of the year roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction […]
Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and […]
Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collection Venus Drive and three novels: The Ask, a New York Times Notable book for 2010, The Subject Steve and Home Land, also a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the first annual Believer Book Award. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, Lipsyte’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review,The Quarterly, […]
R. Dean Johnson is the author of the novel, Californium (Plume-Penguin), and the story collection, Delicate Men (Alternative Book). His essays and stories have appeared in Ascent, Cimarron Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Natural Bridge, Salt Hill, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. A professor at Eastern Kentucky University, he directs their low-res MFA in Creative Writing […]