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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.
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 […]
Rosalind Porter is the editor of two anthologies: Four-Letter Word: New Love Letters and The Seven Deadly Sins: A Celebration of Virtue and Vice. She has worked as a book editor for Random House UK and Oneworld Publications and is currently the Deputy Editor of Granta Magazine.
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 […]
Annie Liontas is the trans-genderqueer author of the memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA’s 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award. Their debut novel Let Me Explain You was a New York Times Editors Choice book. They co-edited the anthology A Manner […]
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 […]