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Nuno Brito



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



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



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



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



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



Camille Bordas is a novelist, short story writer, and translator. She was born in France and grew up between there and Mexico. She’s the author of two novels in her native French, but wrote her third, How to Behave in a Crowd (Crown/Tim Duggan Books) in English. Her short fiction has appeared in the New […]

Chris Feliciano Arnold



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



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

Justin Torres



Justin Torres’ first novel We the Animals, a national best seller, has been translated into fifteen languages and is currently being adapted into a feature film.  He has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and other publications, as well as non-fiction pieces in publications […]

Emily Nemens



Emily Nemens joined The Paris Review as editor in 2018. Previously, she’d been coeditor of The Southern Review; stories published during her tenure were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the inaugural edition of PEN America Best Debut Fiction. Her debut novel, The […]