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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 is the author of six poetry collections: Lugano (2011), Street Theatre (2013), A Room in Athens (2018), Leopard and Abstraction (2020), Hadrian (2022), and Resource and Poverty (2025), as well as a collection of short stories, St. Louis of the Burning Portuguese (2016). In 2019, A Room in Athens received the Portuguese PEN […]
Nuno Brito was born in Porto. He has a BA in History and an MA in Medieval and Renaissance History. He also attended the Institute for Medieval Studies in Rome where he pursued studies on Abelard. He published a book of short stories and his poems are published in various literary magazines. He now lives […]
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the author of five collections of poetry, Domestic Work (2000), Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002), Native Guard (2006)—for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize—Thrall, (2012) and, most recently, Monument: Poems […]
Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019) and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the New York Public Library and George Washington University. Her work has been published in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Tin House, A Public Space, and the […]