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T Kira Māhealani Madden is a hapa-Kanaka Maoli writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, NYSCA/NYFA, and Yaddo. Her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, […]
Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in SLAM magazine, the Huffington Post, Springhouse Journal, and elsewhere. He was awarded the 2016 Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award for Fiction and the 2015 Summer Literary Seminars Montreal Flash Fiction Prize. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His most recent novel, The New Naturals, was published […]
Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and the nonfiction book Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a Whiting […]
Thomas Swick grew up in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and received a BA in English from Villanova University. From 1989 to 2008 he was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Swick is the author of a travel memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland; a collection of travel stories, A Way to See the […]
Susana Ferreira is a Portuguese-Canadian freelance reporter, producer, and longform writer for magazines and film. As a correspondent and stringer, she has filed from throughout the world for major dailies, wires, television news networks and radio. She speaks five languages —six, if you count “Toronto English.”
Beebe Bahrami is an award-winning freelance writer, anthropologist, and book author, including of two recently released travel memoirs set in France, Café Oc—A Nomad’s Tales of Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France and Café Neandertal—Excavating the Past in One of Europe’s Most Ancient Places, and several travel guides, including the just-released Moon guidebook Camino de […]
Afonso Reis Cabral published his first book of poetry at fifteen (Condensation). He has a degree in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, a master’s degree in the same field and a post-graduate degree in Fiction Writing. He went twice to Germany in search of a story, the first time at the age of thirteen. He worked […]
Dulce Maria Cardoso is a Portuguese writer who spent her childhood in Luanda, Angola after her parents moved there when she was an infant. Her family returned to Portugal following the Angolan War of Independence in 1975. She studied law at the University of Lisbon and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. […]
Isabela Figueiredo was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, now Maputo, in 1963, the daughter of Portuguese from the Center-West region of Portugal. After independence from Mozambique, in 1975, she came to Portugal. She graduated in Modern Languages and Literature, variant of Portuguese Studies, at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and […]
Tatiana Faia lives and works in Oxford. She is the author of one book of short stories and three books of poems, most recently Um quarto em Atenas/A Room in Athens (2018). She holds a PhD in Ancient Greek Literature and has translated Homer and Anne Carson into Portuguese. She also shares editorial responsibilities in […]