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Fredy Chikangana
Quechua poet and speaker Fredy Chikangana is from the Yanakuna Mitmak Nation in the Yurak Mayu territory of Colombia. His Indigenous name is Wiñay Mallki, which means “root that remains over time.” The prizewinning author of two verse collections, he has participated in national and international poetry events in Indigenous languages, and his poems have been translated into multiple languages. He has worked on strengthening Quechua Yanakuna Mitmak identity and oralitura, work that he shares with his Native brothers and sisters throughout the Americas.
Alberto Chimal
Alberto Chimal is a Mexican author of short stories, novels, and children’s books. In addition to his work as a screenwriter, he is the first Mexican to write a Batman story for DC Comics. He has received national and international awards and is considered a prominent figure of contemporary Latin American literature.
Frank Chin
Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley. He received an American Book Award in 1989 for a collection of short stories, The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., and another in 2000 for Lifetime Achievement. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Chin is considered to be one of the pioneers in Asian American theatre. He founded the Asian American Theatre Workshop, which became the Asian American Theater Company in 1973. He first gained notoriety as a playwright in the 1970s. His play The Chickencoop Chinaman was the first by an Asian American to be produced on a major New York stage. Stereotypes of Asian Americans, and traditional Chinese folklore are common themes in much of his work.
In addition to his work as an author and playwright, Frank Chin has also worked extensively with Japanese American resisters of the draft in WWII. His novel, Born in the U.S.A., is dedicated to this subject.Chin is also a musician. In the mid-1960s, he taught Robbie Krieger, a member of The Doors how to play the Flamenco guitar.
Sandro Chiri
Sandro Chiri (b. 1958) is a representative poet of the “Generation of 1980” in Peru. He has published four books of poetry: El libro del mal amor y otros poemas (1989), Y si después de tantas palabras (1992), Viñetas (2004) and Poemas de Filadelfia / Philadelphia Poems (2006). His poetry has been translated into English, Portuguese, and Italian.
George Choundas
George Choundas’s work has appeared in over fifty publications. His story collection, The Making Sense of Things (FC2), was awarded the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and shortlisted for three other prizes. Winner of the New Millennium Award for Fiction, he is a former FBI agent and half-Cuban/half-Greek.
Urszula Chowaniec
Urszula Chowaniec is a senior teaching fellow in Polish at University College in London and a professor at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University. She is also the author of Melancholic Migrating Bodies: Polish Contemporary Women’s Writing (Cambridge Scholars, 2015).
Adrienne Christian
Adrienne Christian is a writer and fine art photographer. Dr. Christian is the author of three poetry collections: Worn (2021), A Proper Lover (2017), and 12023 Woodmont Avenue (2013). Common themes in her work are family, love, and African American life.
Necia Chronister
Necia Chronister is an associate professor of German at Kansas State University and the editor of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. Her research focuses on contemporary German literature, primarily by women writers. She has published on Jenny Erpenbeck, Judith Hermann, Angela Krauss, and Antje Rávic Strubel.
Eddie Chuculate
Eddie Chuculate (Creek/Cherokee) is the author of the story collection Cheyenne Madonna (Black Sparrow Press, 2010) and a winner of the O. Henry Prize. He held a Wallace Stegner creative writing fellowship at Stanford University and graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He later earned a master’s of fine arts degree at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.
Derek Chung
Derek Chung is an acclaimed poet, essayist, and critic from Hong Kong. He is the recipient of numerous Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature, among other accolades. His poetry collections include The Growing House, Umbrellas That Blossom on the Road, and A Bright House Standing in Light Rain.
Eun-Gwi Chung
Eun-Gwi Chung is an associate professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. She earned her PhD in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. Her translations of Korean poetry with Brother Anthony have been published as The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry (2014) and Fifteen Seconds Without Sorrow (2014) in the US. This research was supported by a research grant from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Sonya Chyu
Sonya Chyu studied fiction at Cornell University. Her work has been awarded first place in the Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize in Fiction, published in Rainy Day and Anak Sastra, and received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers.
Kayla E. Ciardi
Kayla E. Ciardi grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, and recently graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oklahoma, earning a bachelor’s degree in English. She currently interns for World Literature Today, and she has been accepted to the Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford in fall 2019. With interests in writing, editing, and visual design as well as a lifelong love of literature, Kayla plans to pursue a career in publishing.
Photo © Astrid Purkertdiv>Janet Clark
Janet Clark worked as a university lecturer and head of marketing in Belgium, England, and Germany. After a successful career in the industry, she started over from scratch as a writer. Since 2011, she has had nine novels published and campaigns for authors’ rights as the president of Mörderische Schwestern e.V.
Nick Roger Clarke
Nick Roger Clarke is a writer, videographer, and marathon runner from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His first collection, Positive Reinforcements for Negative People, appeared in 2018. He has also been published in The Age, Soft Quarterly, and Runners Tribe.
Rosie Clarke
Rosie Clarke is director of public programming at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in lower Manhattan, a social enterprise and event venue that raises money to support Housing Works’ lifesaving services for people living with HIV/AIDS in New York.
Wallace Cleaves
Wallace Cleaves is an associate professor of teaching and associate director of the University Writing Program at the University of California at Riverside. He has also taught courses in medieval, Renaissance, and Native American literature at Pomona College in Claremont, at Cal State Fullerton, and at UC Riverside. He is a member of the Gabrielino / Tongva Native American tribe, the indigenous peoples of the Los Angeles area.
Colleen Lutz Clemens
Colleen Lutz Clemens is professor of non-Western literatures and director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Kutztown University. Her current work focuses on best practices for teaching world literature to encourage dialogue on social justice and intersectionality.
Harry Clifton
Harry Clifton (born 1952) is an Irish poet. He was born in Dublin, but has lived in Africa and Asia, as well as more recently in continental Europe. He has published five collections of poems in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including The Liberal Cage (1988) and The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973–1988 (1992).
Photo by Jonathan Bloomdiv>Moria Dayan Codish
Moria Dayan Codish is a literary scholar and editor, creative writing teacher, and a writer. Her novel Turtles was published in 2018 by Kinneret Zmora Dvir.
Oliverio Coelho
Oliverio Coelho (b. 1977, Buenos Aires) has published the novels Tierra de vigilia (2000), Los invertebrables (2003), Borneo (2004), Promesas naturales (2006), Ida (2008), Un hombre llamado Lobo (2011), Bien de frontera (2015), and the story collections Parte doméstico (2009) and Hacia la extinción (2013).
Jessica Cohen
Jessica Cohen translates contemporary Israeli prose and poetry. Her translations include David Grossman’s critically acclaimed To the End of the Land and works by Amir Gutfreund, Yael Hedaya, Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon, and Tom Segev.
Photo by Marcus Jacksondiv>Aaron Coleman
Aaron Coleman is the author of Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2025), among other titles, and the translator of Nicolás Guillén’s The Great Zoo (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Coleman is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.
Xixuan Collins
Xixuan Collins is the author of the novel Flowing Water, Falling Flowers (MWC Press, 2020) and a finalist in the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series. Her writings have appeared in PastTen, Overachiever Magazine, London Reader, Zibby Mag, and others. She is a regular contributor to Asian Cha: A Literary Journal.
Narcís Comadira
Narcís Comadira (b. 1942) is a highly prized contemporary Catalan poet. He has an extensive poetic oeuvre but is also a playwright, a cultural and literary critic, a translator of English and Italian poets, and a dedicated painter. In 2018 he was awarded a doctor honoris causa by the University of Girona for his rich and varied cultural contributions to Catalonia.
Dustin Condren
Dustin Condren is assistant professor of Russian and a core member of the Romanoff Center for Russian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film (Cornell University Press, 2024).