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Terri Witek’s many books of poetry include her 2023 collection, Something’s Missing in This Museum and a new chapbook: copies: I loved you in the hard old way (2024 Sigilist Press). Down Water Street is forthcoming from aboveground press in 2025, W/\ SH , a collaboration with poet Amaranth Borsuk ,loops the eco-emergency as a crisis of rain […]
The Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970 and grew up in Portugal. Beside his work as writer, he teaches Theory of Science at a university in Lisbon. Since 2001, Tavares has surprised his readers with the variety of his books and has been awarded an impressive number of literary prizes […]
José Luís Peixoto (1974) is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling novelists. His first novel Nenhum Olhar (published as Blank Gaze in the UK by Bloomsbury and as The Implacable Order of Things in the USA by Doubleday/Anchor/Random House) won the Jose Saramago Literary Award, granted every two years for the best novel written […]
Erica Dawson is the author of three collections of poetry: The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize, and Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Prize, and When Rap Spoke Straight to God, published by Tin House in 2018. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and […]
Patrícia Reis’s most recent work is The Disobedient, a biography of Maria Teresa Horta, published in 2024. Horta is the only surviving author of the well-known “Three Marias,” the trio of intrepid writers who authored the Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), the feminist manifesto that echoed around the world and scandalized the Portuguese dictatorship. […]
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 […]
Denis Johnson is the author of several novels, plays, and books of verse. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award. He lives in North Idaho.
Alissa Nutting is author of the novel Tampa (Ecco/HarperCollins 2013) and the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The Norton Introduction to Literature, Tin House, Bomb, and Conduit; her essays […]
Padgett Powell has published six novels-–Edisto, A Woman Named Drown (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984 and 1987), Edisto Revisited (Henry Holt, 1996), Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), The Interrogative Mood (Ecco, 2009), You & I (Profile Books, 2011)-–and two story collections, Typical (FS&G, 1991)and Aliens of Affection (Holt, 1998). Edisto made TIME’s Best-of-Year Fiction […]
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 […]