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Gisela Casimiro is a Portuguese-Guinean writer, artist, performer, translator and activist. She is the author of “Erosão” (poetry), “Giz” (poetry), “Casa com Árvores Dentro” and “Vida: Uma Aplicação” (theatre plays), Estendais (nonfiction), Privilégio Negro ( upcoming antiracist manual) and “Recursos Humanos” (tv episode for the upcoming series “Novas Narrativas de Caça”). She translated Audre Lorde’s […]
António Pedrosa is a photographer based in Porto, Portugal, whose work primarily focuses on documentary photography, exploring themes of social inequality and the relationship with the territory. In 2014, he founded COLECTIVO, a platform dedicated to experimental approaches in documentary photography. His projects enjoy frequent publication in international magazines and newspapers, and he has received […]
Margarida Vale de Gato translates, writes, and teaches Translation and US Literature in Universidade de Lisboa, School of Arts and Humanities, where she coordinates the major and minor in American Studies. She is also a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and her academic work is centered on Translation, Luso-American Studies, […]
Young Smith is the author of In A City You Will Never Visit, a collection of poems published by Black Zinnias Press of San Francisco in 2008. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council, as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ […]
Kevin Moffett is the author of two story collections, as well as The Silent History, a narrative app for mobile devices. Only Son, a novel, is forthcoming from McSweeney’s Books in 2025. His work has been awarded the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment […]
As a writer and educator of East African descent based in New York, my writing and teaching revolves around stories of and connections between places and people. I collaborated with underground fashion icon Daniel R. Day on Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem, a 2019 New York Times bestseller. My fiction has appeared in Callaloo, Witness, […]
Timothy Liu is the author of numerous books of poems, including Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain (1992-2017) and Down Low and Lowdown: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues, both out from Barrow Street. His poems have been translated into a dozen languages, and his journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. […]
Chang-rae Lee is the author of six novels: Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, On Such a Full Sea (2014) which was a Finalist for the NBCC and won the Heartland Fiction Prize, and his most recent novel, My Year Abroad […]
Lili Loofbourow is a staff writer at Slate. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2019, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New York Times Magazine, among many others, and she is a two-time recipient of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Staige D. Blackford Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is working on a book of creative […]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris […]