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Jensen Beach is the author of two collections of short fiction, most recently Swallowed by the Cold. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, Ninth Letter, the Paris Review, and The New Yorker. He has degrees from Stockholm University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and teaches in the BFA program at Vermont State University, […]
Chanan Tigay is the author of The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible (Ecco/HarperCollins), along with a number of other works of nonfiction, including “The Special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army” (McSweeney’s) and “Nuclear Meltdown,”about a California nuclear facility built on four active fault lines. In April he […]
Molly Antopol’s debut story collection, The UnAmericans, won the a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and France’s Translation Prize. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award; was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the National Jewish Book […]
John Hennessy is the author of three collections, Coney Island Pilgrims, Bridge and Tunnel, and Exit Garden State (new from Lost Horse Press/Washington State UP), poems from which appear in multiple editions of The Best American Poetry, The Believer, Harvard Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. With Ostap […]
Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar, photographer, and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction […]
Susana Moreira Marques is the author of four books of literary non-fiction and one book for children. Her work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation (Colombia), the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), Art OMI (US), amongst others. She also writes for […]
Arthur Flowers, native of Memphis, is author of novels and nonfictions, including Another Good Loving Blues, Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman, and the graphicwork, I See The Promised Land from Tara Books, India. He is a Delta based performance poet, webmaster of Rootsblog, and has been Executive Director of various nonprofits and […]
Teolinda Gersão is author of 19 books, translated in 20 countries. Some of her works have been adapted to theatre and cinema. She received some of the most important Portuguese literary awards and was writer-in-residence at the University of California, Barkeley. English translations: The Word Tree (novel) Dedalus Books, UK; City of Ulysses (novel) Dalkey […]
Pedro Mexia was born in Lisbon in 1972. He writes reviews and a weekly column for Expresso, and also works for radio and TV. He published twenty books (collections of newspaper columns, journals, poetry), and coordinates the poetry collection of the publishing house Tinta-da-China. He was on the jury of the Camões Prize. A former deputy director of […]
Richard Zenith’s biography of Pessoa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. Education by Stone: Selected Poems by Brazil’s João Cabral de Melo Neto won the 2006 translation award from the Academy of American Poets. In addition to his voluminous translations of Pessoa’s work and the writings of other Portuguese poets, Zenith’s fiction […]