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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 […]
Afonso Cruz, born in 1971, is a multidisciplinary artist, author of more than 40 books, among novels, theatre plays, picture books, juvenile novellas, poetry, phototext and essays. His books have been published in more than 20 languages and have received many awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature for the novel Kokoschka’s Doll.
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 […]
João Tordo was born in Lisbon in 1975. He is the author of ten books, divided between the novel, the detective story and the essay. He won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2009, with the novel As Três Vidas, and the Fernando Namora Literary Prize in 2021, with Felicidade. He was also a finalist […]
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 […]
In the past few years Lopes’ work has been seen in the U.S. at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, at El Museo del Barrio, ApexArt and the America’s Society in New York, at the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, among other venues. In the same period his work was also seen in France, Germany, […]
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 […]
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 […]