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Deanne Fitzmaurice is a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photojournalist renowned for her compelling visual storytelling. With a deep sensitivity and emotional depth, her work captures the resilience of the human spirit, exemplified by her powerful portrayal of Saleh, a young Iraqi war victim, which earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. A highly decorated photographer, Deanne has received […]
Jennifer Acker is founder and editor-in-chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations and reviews are forthcoming from, or have been appeared in, Amazon Original Stories, The Washington Post, n+1, Harper’s and Ploughshares, among other places. She has an MFA in fiction and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches literature and editing at Amherst. Her debut novel, The Limits of […]
Maria Teresa Horta was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1937. In addition to journalism, plays, and fiction, she is most renowned as a poet. She has published 21 works of poetry, from Espelho Inicial (First Mirror) in1960) to Anunciações in 2016, none of which have been translated into English. Soon after the publication of her […]
With her first novel, And the Night Spins (2012), a failed love story set in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Alexandra Lucas Coelho received the Portuguese Association of Writers’ prestigious literary prize. Her second novel, My Sunday Lover (2014), a short satire, was translated into French by Éditions du Seuil. In 2016 she published her […]
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida is a writer. She is the author of the novels Esse Cabelo, Três Histórias de Esquecimento, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, As Telefones and Ferry. She teaches at New York University.
Luke Neima is the online editor of Granta Magazine, the United Kingdom’s best-known quarterly journal of literature and long-form non-fiction, originally founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University. He is also the Deputy Editor of Review 31, an online review of the latest nonfiction, literary fiction and poetry. Before coming to Granta, he worked […]
Jarita Davis is a poet and fiction writer with a B.A. in classics from Brown University and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She was the writer in residence at the Nantucket Historical Association and has received fellowships from the Mellon Mayes program, Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, […]
Shane Hinton’s debut story collection Pinkies was selected as a finalist for a 2016 Firecracker Award in Fiction by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. He is the editor of the anthology We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida and the author of the forthcoming novella Radio Dark. He teaches writing at the […]
Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour, and the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award. His essays and fiction have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Guernica and BuzzFeed. His latest […]
Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. At-Risk was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award, The First Horizon Award, and the Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction Award. Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the International Latino Book Award, the […]