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ROBERT OLMSTEAD is the author of seven novels, the memoir STAY HERE WITH ME, and RIVER DOGS, a collection of short stories. His three most recent novels, known as the Childs Trilogy: COAL BLACK HORSE, FAR BRIGHT STAR, and THE COLDEST NIGHT, have been optioned by Casey Affleck. FAR BRIGHT STAR, declared one of the […]
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 […]
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 books of poetry: When Rap Spoke Straight to God, winner of the 2018 Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for Poetry; The Small Blades Hurt, winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize; and, Big-Eyed Afraid, winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Orion, Revel, The […]
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 […]
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 […]
Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and […]