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John Frey is a graduate of the William Esper Studio for Actors in New York City (Meisner Technique) under the teaching of William Esper, and has worked as an actor in theater, film, and television in Europe and the United States for the past fifteen years. He has also taught acting in Lisbon, Copenhagen, and […]
Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press, 2011) and the chapbook Silt (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Her debut crime novel, The Red Chameleon, will be published next year by Pegasus Books. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, […]
Catherine Tice has worked at the The New York Review of Books for over two decades as the Associate Publisher. She lives in Brooklyn, and has made slender contributions to the St. Petersburg Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, and most recently, Granta.
Patrícia Portela is a writer and performance maker born in 1974, living between Belgium and Portugal. She studied set and costume design in Lisbon and in Utrecht, film in Ebeltoft, Denmark, and Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2003 she has worked on her own performances and installations in collaboration with international artists. She has achieved […]
Adam Levin is the author of the novels The Instructions, Bubblegum, and Mount Chicago, as well as the story collection, Hot Pink. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and Playboy. He has been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, […]
Rui Zink was born in Lisbon in 1961, where he is now a writer and university lecturer. He was a regular guest on late-night TV discussion programmes and he has become popular as an agent provocateur in Lisbon’s cultural scene. Zink is the author of more than twenty books, including A arte suprema, the first […]
Terri Witek’s most recent books of poetry include her 2023 collection, Something’s Missing in This Museum (Anhinga Press) and 2 chapbooks: copies: I loved you in the hard old way (2024 Sigilist Press) and Down Water Street (2025 aboveground press). W/\ SH , a collaboration with Amaranth Borsuk, loops the eco-emergency as a crisis of rain and smoke between […]
Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970 and teaches Theory of Science in Lisbon. Since 2001 he has surprised his readers with the variety of books he has published and has won a number of impressive awards. In 2005 he won the José Saramago Prize for young writers under 35. In his speech […]
Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. He is a writer and a playwright. His new novel is due out in May. The True Actor (published in the US by Dzanc, translation by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis) won the 2013 Domingos da Silva Teixeira Distinguished Literature Award […]
KATHERINE VAZ, a former Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, is the author most recently of the novel ABOVE THE SALT (Flatiron Books/Macmillan, 2023), a People Magazine Book of the Week, a Top 15 Pick of […]