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Lena Bezawork Grönlund
Lena Bezawork Grönlund is a writer from Sweden, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her first novel, Slag, was published in Sweden in 2017. She has also published poetry in several journals.
Photo: Zoe Grindeadiv>Hagit Grossman
Hagit Grossman, a writer living in Tel Aviv, is the author of Trembling of the City (Shearsman, 2016). She has been shortlisted for the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award. Her poems in translation have appeared in the New Yorker and in Poetry International.
Charo Guerra
Cuban writer Charo Guerra (b. María del Rosario Guerra Ayala; Limonar, Matanzas, 1962) is author of the poetry collections Un sitio bajo el cielo (1991;, Vámonos a Icaria (1998), winner of the prestigious New Pines Prize; and Luna de los pobres (2011), awarded the José Jacinto Milanés Prize. She has also written the short-story collection Pasajes de la vida breve (2007).
Victoria Guerrero Peirano
Victoria Guerrero Peirano is a poet, teacher, and feminist activist. Her recent publication Y la muerte no tendrá dominio (2019) won the 2020 National Literature Prize. She is the author of five poetry collections, including a compilation of her poetry, Documentos de Barbarie (poetry 2002–2012) (2013), which won ProART in 2015. She cares about her dog and cat. She survives by teaching at the university.
Leila Guerriero
Leila Guerriero (b. 1967) is a journalist and editor whose work regularly appears in Spanish and Latin American publications (see WLT, Sept. 2022, 27). She has received numerous prizes, including the Gabriel Garcia Márquez Journalism Award, and is the author of over a dozen books, including A Simple Story. Her writing has been translated into multiple languages.
Marame Gueye
Marame Gueye is associate professor of African and African diaspora literatures at East Carolina University. Her work is on verbal art, gender, language, and immigration. Dr. Gueye is also a scholar-activist of women’s rights in Senegal and its American diaspora.
© Nobel Prize Outreach / Photo by Hugh Foxdiv>Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is emeritus professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent. Born in Zanzibar, he is the author of the acclaimed novels Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise, Admiring Silence, By the Sea, Desertion, The Last Gift, and Gravel Heart. His latest book, Afterlives, was published in 2020. He served on the jury of the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, nominating J. M. Coetzee for the award.
José Ángel Gutiérrez
José Angel Gutiérrez (b. 1944) is considered one of the Four Horsemen of the Chicano Movement and founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas–Arlington. The author or co-author of seventeen books, he was most recently honored with the 2018 National Hispanic Hero Award from the US Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago.
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (b. 1986, Caguas) is the author most recently of the novel Los días hábiles (2020) and the book of short stories Preciosos perdedores (2019). He has received the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña’s National Novel Prize in Puerto Rico (2012) as well as the Festival de la Palabra’s Premio Nuevas Voces (2015), a recognition of up-and-coming local writers. In 2017 he was selected by the Hay Festival as part of Bogotá39, a list of the best Latin American writers under the age of forty.
Sean Guynes-Vishniac
Sean Guynes-Vishniac (@guynesvishniac) is a PhD candidate in English at Michigan State University. He is editor of Punking Speculative Fiction (a special issue of Deletion, May 2018); co-editor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (forthcoming) and Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017); editor of The SFRA Review; and book reviews editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.
Photo by José Arturo Ballester Pannelidiv>Sandra Guzmán
A Caribbean-born, Afro Indigenous daughter of Boriké, Sandra Guzmán is an award-winning author, editor, documentary filmmaker, and anthologist whose work explores identity, land, memory, race, coloniality, spirituality, culture, and gender. She is the editor of the landmark anthology Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023), featuring the texts of 140 women from fifty nations who write in more than two dozen languages (see WLT, Nov. 2023, 68). She produced and was the interviewer for The Pieces I Am, the acclaimed documentary film about the art and life of her literary mentor, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Her essays have appeared in Audubon magazine and the anthologies So We Can Know, edited by Aracelis Girmay, and Some of My Best Friends, edited by Emily Bernard. Her work has appeared in CNN, NBC News, and El Diario / La Prensa, among others, and her documentary work has aired on PBS for American Masters, HBO, and Netflix. She won an Emmy for a program on the US Cuba embargo while working as a producer at Telemundo. She is presently associate editor at Studio Gannet.