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Mia Couto, born in Beira/Mozambique in 1955, is among the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa. After studying medicine and biology in Maputo, he worked as a journalist. Besides writing, he is now a biologist and teaches at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. In 2013, Mia Couto was awarded the Camões Prize for Literature 2013 and the prestigious Neustadt International […]
Inquisitive by nature in her words and her choices, a lover of freedom of thought and feeling, Alice Neto de Sousa is, among other crafs, a Portuguese poet with roots in Angola. In 2022, she was distinguished by Bantumen as one of the one hundred most influential black personalities in the lusophone world.Invited to the […]
Gisela Casimiro is a Portuguese-Guinean writer, artist, performer, translator and activist. She is the author of “Erosão” (poetry), “Giz” (poetry), “Casa com Árvores Dentro” and “Vida: Uma Aplicação” (theatre plays), Estendais (nonfiction), Privilégio Negro ( upcoming antiracist manual) and “Recursos Humanos” (tv episode for the upcoming series “Novas Narrativas de Caça”). She translated Audre Lorde’s […]
António Pedrosa is a photographer based in Porto, Portugal, whose work primarily focuses on documentary photography, exploring themes of social inequality and the relationship with the territory. In 2014, he founded COLECTIVO, a platform dedicated to experimental approaches in documentary photography. His projects enjoy frequent publication in international magazines and newspapers, and he has received […]
Margarida Vale de Gato translates, writes, and teaches Translation and US Literature in Universidade de Lisboa, School of Arts and Humanities, where she coordinates the major and minor in American Studies. She is also a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and her academic work is centered on Translation, Luso-American Studies, […]
Young Smith is the author of In A City You Will Never Visit, a collection of poems published by Black Zinnias Press of San Francisco in 2008. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council, as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ […]
As a writer and educator of East African descent based in New York, my writing and teaching revolves around stories of and connections between places and people. I collaborated with underground fashion icon Daniel R. Day on Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem, a 2019 New York Times bestseller. My fiction has appeared in Callaloo, Witness, […]
Timothy Liu is the author of numerous books of poems, including Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain (1992-2017) and Down Low and Lowdown: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues, both out from Barrow Street. His poems have been translated into a dozen languages, and his journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. […]
Chang-rae Lee is the author of six novels: Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, On Such a Full Sea (2014) which was a Finalist for the NBCC and won the Heartland Fiction Prize, and his most recent novel, My Year Abroad […]
Lili Loofbourow is a staff writer at Slate. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2019, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New York Times Magazine, among many others, and she is a two-time recipient of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Staige D. Blackford Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is working on a book of creative […]