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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 […]
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 […]
Francisco Vilhena is assistant editor at Granta. He writes short essays and translates from the Portuguese. His translations include works by Gonçalo M. Tavares, Paulo Scott and Ricardo Lísias and can be found in Modern Poetry in Translation, clinic, Wasafiri, Brooklyn Rail, Granta and elsewhere. He serves on the advisory board of the Poetry Translation […]
David Leavitt’s novels and story collections include Family Dancing, The Lost Language of Cranes, Arkansas, The Indian Clerk, and The Two Hotel Francforts, set in Lisbon in the summer of 1940. He is also the author of two works of nonfiction, Florence, A Delicate Case and The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and […]
Camille Bordas is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels in English, The Material (Random House, 2024), and How to Behave in a Crowd (Tim Duggan Books, 2017). Her earlier two books, Partie Commune and Les Treize Desserts, were written in her native French. Her fiction has appeared in The […]
Chris Feliciano Arnold has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Times, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Vice News, The Believer, Folha de S. Paulo and more. The recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has published fiction in Playboy, The Kenyon Review, Ecotone and other […]
Jenny Offill is the author of two novels, Last Things and Dept. of Speculation. Dept. was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2014 by the NY Times and was shortlisted for the Pen/Faulkner and the Dublin Literary Award. She is the 2019 writer-in-residence at Vassar College. Photo: Emily Tobey