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Mehrdad Fallah
Mehrdad Fallah (b. 1960) is one of the most influential Iranian poets of recent decades. The author of ten books of poetry, Fallah has also published a translation of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and a collection of critical essays on contemporary Iranian poetry.
Fan Yusu
Fan Yusu came from Xiangyang City in Hubei Province. She was a member of the Picun Literature Group and attended the Writers’ Seminar organized by the Lao She Literature Academy. Currently she is the editor in chief of New Workers Literature. Once a live-in nanny, now Fan works as a janitor in Beijing.
Kit Fan
Kit Fan was born and educated in Hong Kong before moving to the UK at twenty-one. His second collection, As Slow as Possible, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, one of the Guardian’s fifty biggest books in 2018, and The Irish Times Poetry Book of the Year.
Brian Fanelli
Brian Fanelli’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in a number of magazines and journals, most recently Oklahoma Review, Spillway, Boston Literary Magazine, Portland Review, and Third Wednesday. Fanelli is the author of one chapbook, Front Man (Big Table Publishing), and the full-length collection All That Remains, forthcoming soon from Unbound Content. Prior to working as a full-time English instructor at Lackawanna College, Fanelli worked a number of jobs, including country clerk, factory worker, and adjunct instructor. He has an MFA from Wilkes University and is currently a PhD student at SUNY Binghamton.
Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah (b. 1945) was born in the Italian-ruled southern region of Somalia, Baidoa. His mother was a traditional storyteller, and his father was a merchant who later worked for the British government as an interpreter. Farah lived in a multilingual environment and learned to speak Somali, Amharic, English, Italian, and Arabic. When he began to write, Farah chose English as the language of his works. His first novel, From A Crooked Rib (1970), depicts the authoritarian role of patriarchy in African society and earned Farah praise as a "male feminist." The publication of his second novel, A Naked Needle (1976), angered the Somalian dictatorial regime and finally forced Farah into exile after receiving death threats. Farah would not return to live in Somalia again, but his lifelong pursuit is to keep his country through his writing.
Jeanne Farewell
Jeanne Farewell is the author of six novels and the short-story collection Nantucket Snow. Also a pianist, Farewell has performed in the US, Europe, and China. She gives lecture-recitals about music and its associations with art and literature.
Mohd Farhan
Mohammad Farhan teaches English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He’s a regular contributor to various reputed newspapers and literary magazines including Wasafiri, among others.
Photo © www.mahmag.orgdiv>Forugh Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967) was an Iranian poet and filmmaker. Her published works include The Captive, The Wall, Rebellion, Reborn, and Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season. She broke with many traditional conventions and thus exercised an immeasurably important influence on modern Iranian poetry.
James Fawcett
James Fawcett studies computer science and human-computer interaction at the University of Oklahoma. He is also an English minor and an intern at WLT. He is a microhobby enthusiast with recent interests in ceramics, screen-printing, French, and yoga. He also co-leads Outdoor Adventure, a hiking club for Honors students.
Photo by Vinciane Lebrundiv>Mélanie Fazi
For her two novels and three story collections, Mélanie Fazi (b. 1976) has won the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, the Prix Masterton, and the Prix Merlin each several times. Active in the contemporary French speculative-fiction community, she lives in Paris and is a member of the Deep Ones, a collective of musicians and writers who give live readings with musical accompaniment.
Photo © Petra Szőcsdiv>Renátó Fehér
Renátó Fehér (b. 1989, Szombathely, Hungary) has published two collections of poetry in Hungarian: Garázsmenet (2014) and Holtidény (2018). A defining voice in the new generation, Fehér’s first collection sought out the identity of a country, a family, and a postsocialist Hungarian generation. His latest collection acknowledges the continual presence of past events and asks, Where to next?
C. E. Feiling
C. E. Feiling (1961–1997) was an Argentine writer, journalist, linguistics professor, literary critic, and translator. He died prematurely at age thirty-six after having published only three novels, each one rooted in a different literary genre. El mal menor (The lesser evil), published in 1996, shortly before his death, is considered a cult classic of Argentine horror fiction.
Feng Jicai
Feng Jicai (b. 1942) is a contemporary Chinese writer, painter, and cultural scholar. He was also a professor at Tianjin University. Feng started publishing literary works in 1977. His most important works include Shenbian (1984; The wonder queue), which won the National Outstanding Novella Prize; the short story “Shitou Shuohua” (1998; The stone talks), which won China’s October Literature Prize; and the short-story collection Sushi Qiren (2018; Rarities in the secular world), which won the Lu Xun Literary Prize.
Enrica Maria Ferrara
Enrica Maria Ferrara is a writer, translator, and scholar in Italian literature and film working at Trinity College Dublin. Recent publications include Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave, 2020), of which she is the editor, and Reading Domenico Starnone, a special issue of Reading in Translation (co-edited with Stiliana Milkova, 2021).
César Ferreira
César Ferreira is a professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he teaches contemporary Latin American literature.
Jorge Ferrer
Havana-born Jorge Ferrer is a writer, editor, and award-winning translator. Among the authors he has translated into Spanish are Alexandr Herzen, Ivan Bunin, Svetlana Alexievich, Vasily Grossman, Guzel Yakhina, and Vasily Rozanov. In 2012 he received the Boris Yeltsin Foundation’s “Russian Literature in Spain” prize. He lives in Barcelona.
Feyziyye
Feyziyye was born in 1982. She works as a newspaper journalist in Baku. She has published one book of poetry, Message. Her poetry takes up themes of war and displacement.
Photo by Radek Kobietskidiv>Julia Fiedorczuk
Julia Fiedorczuk (b. 1975) is a Polish poet, prose writer, translator, and lecturer in American literature at the University of Warsaw. She has published five books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and two novels. Her Pushcart-nominated poem “Lands and Oceans” appeared in the November 2014 issue of WLT. Her most recent book, Nieważkość, was nominated for the Nike Prize. Oxygen, a volume of selected poetry translated by Bill Johnston, is forthcoming from Zephyr Press in 2017.
Elizabeth Fifer
Elizabeth Fifer is a professor of English (emerita) at Lehigh University. She writes on contemporary world literature.
Mahmoud Fikry
Mahmoud Fikry is an Egyptian author, born in the Suez province. The author of novels and award-winning short fiction, he has numerous publications in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror/thriller genres. These include Malgia (an adventure story involving both science fiction and myths/magic) and Metaverse (in the cyberpunk genre but also fantasy/historical). Both books were presented at the Cairo International Book Fair, and Metaverse attained the status of the most widely read novel by its publishing house.
Vera Filenko
Vera Filenko writes feature scripts, prose, and poetry in Russian and English. Her prose has been published in Belarusian and Russian independent media and literature almanacs (Snob, Makulatura, AST). She received a grant from the Union of Belarus Writers for publishing her shorty-story collection Transfer Me (2018).
Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke’s newest collection, The Infinity Room, won the Wheelbarrow Books Prize for Established Poets (Michigan State, 2019). Earlier collections have been published by Arkansas, Ohio State (2003, OSU/The Journal Prize), BkMk, Zoland, Stephen F. Austin (2011, SFA Prize), and Jacar (2015 Book Prize). Other book-length work has won the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction, the Robert C. Jones Prize, and the Elixir Press Fiction Prize.