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  • Babak Mazloumi

    Babak Mazloumi is an Iranian literary translator and critic. He has translated works by Robert Coover, Dave Eggers, Steven Galloway, Ismail Kadare, and many other writers into Persian. His critical essays have appeared in both Iranian and American journals. He is currently a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, working at the intersection of literary theory and translation studies.


  • Miha Mazzini

    Miha Mazzini is the author of twenty-nine books in nine languages. His short stories have been published in many anthologies, including the 2011 Pushcart Prize anthology. Also a screenwriter and film director, Mazzini wrote the screenplays for two award-winning feature films.



  • Victoria McArtor

    A former adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa, Victoria McArtor (victoriamcartor.com) holds an MFA from Oklahoma State University, is a luxury residential mortgage loan officer, and co-founded MUSED. Organization, a poetry and collaborative arts nonprofit in Oklahoma and California. Her book of poems, Reverse Selfie, is coming soon.


  • Marcie McCauley

    Marcie McCauley writes and reads in Tkaronto (Toronto) and N’Swakamok (Sudbury) on the homelands of Indigenous peoples—including the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Wendat—land still inhabited by their descendants. Her writing has been published in American, British, and Canadian magazines and journals, in print and online.



  • Allison L. McClung

    Allison L. McClung received her bachelor of arts from the University of Oklahoma in 2023. Her research interests include modern Japanese literature, feminist literature, and postcolonial studies. She is currently an assistant language teacher in Nagasaki Prefecture as a member of the JET Program.



  • Olivia McCourry

    Olivia McCourry is a journalist from Norman, Oklahoma. She has interned for both World Literature Today and Oklahoma Today and recently graduated with a master of science degree from Columbia University.



  • Gretchen McCullough

    Gretchen McCullough is currently on the faculty at the American University in Cairo. Her bilingual book of short stories in English and Arabic, Three Stories from Cairo, translated with Mohamed Metwalli, was published in 2011 by AFAQ Publishing House, Cairo. A collection of short stories about expatriate life in Cairo, Shahrazad’s Tooth, appeared in 2013. Her co-translation of Mohamed Metwalli's volume of poetry, A Song by the Aegean Sea, was published by Laertes Press in 2022. McCullough's novel, Confessions of a Knight Errant, a comedy featuring Cairo and Texas, was published by Cune Press the same year, followed by Shahrazad's Gift (2024), a collection of short stories. Articles, essays, and reviews from numerous journals are posted on her website.


  • Tyler McElroy

    Tyler McElroy graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in English in 2019. He enjoys reading, listening to music, and writing in his spare time. He intends to make a career out of his love for the written word and is usually busy planning his next big adventure.



  • Clayton McKee

    Clayton McKee is a writer and translator currently splitting time between Pennsylvania and Nice, France. He has recently taken over as director of Trafika Europe after working as an editor for the project since 2015.



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    Stephanie McKenzie

    Stephanie McKenzie has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and lived in Jamaica and Guyana for short periods. With Carol Bailey, she edited Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2022). McKenzie has published three collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry and is full professor in the English Programme at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.



  • Gerard McKeown

    Gerard McKeown is an Irish writer who has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and longlisted for the Irish Book Awards’ Short Story of the Year. He has been featured in a number of journals and anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.



  • Connor Lee McLean

    From San Jose, Connor Lee McLean has creative nonfiction published in Catamaran and fiction published in 3:AM Magazine.



  • Alexandra McManus

    Alexandra McManus is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma studying communications with minors in editing and publishing as well as sociology. She has served as a nonfiction editor for the Tulsa Review and as a culture reporter for the OU Daily.



  • Dan Taulapapa McMullin

    Dan Taulapapa McMullin is an artist and poet from American Samoa. His recent book of poems, Coconut Milk (University of Arizona Press, 2013), was on the American Library Association’s Rainbow List Top Ten Books of the Year. His current projects include Aue Away, an art installation commissioned by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and 100 Tikis, an art appropriation video addressing the intersection of tiki kitsch and indigenous sovereignty.



  • Kat Meads

    A North Carolina native, Kat Meads is the author of six novels (one written as Z. K. Burrus), three essay collections, two short fiction collections, an epistolary memoir, and a hybrid fiction. She has also published several chapbooks of poetry and prose. Her short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Toronto (Canada), and elsewhere. Her writing has been recognized by two Independent Publisher (IPPY) medals, an NEA fellowship, a California Artist fellowship, and two Silicon Valley artist grants. A five-time Foreword Reviews Book of the Year finalist, she has received five Best American Essays notable citations and writer residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Millay, Blue Mountain Center, and Montalvo Center for the Arts. She lives in California.


  • Paula Meehan

    Paula Meehan was born and reared in the north inner city of Dublin. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and received an MFA degree from Eastern Washington University. She has published five collections of poetry and numerous stage and radio plays. She has been the recipient of many awards, among them the Butler Award for Poetry from the Irish American Cultural Institute, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, and the Denis Devlin Memorial Award for her most recent collection of poems, Dharmakaya (Wake Forest University Press). She is a member of Aosdána, the Irish Academy for the Arts, and teaches in a project for stabilized drug users and in other community contexts. A fine-art edition of new work (with Theo Dorgan and Tony Curtis) is forthcoming from Brooding Heron Press (located on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State).



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    Sandra Meek

    The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, and three Georgia Author of the Year awards, Sandra Meek has published six books of poems, including Still (Persea, 2020), An Ecology of Elsewhere, Road Scatter, and the Dorset Prize–winning Biogeography.


  • Leeya Mehta

    Leeya Mehta is a prizewinning poet and essayist. Her column “The Company We Keep” runs with The Independent. She has just finished a novel, Extinction.


  • Nebiy Mekonnen

    Nebiy Mekonnen is a renowned poet, journalist, playwright, and translator living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who has published poetry books and various essays. Mekonnen is best known for Negem lela ken new, a translation into Amharic of the novel Gone with the Wind, which he wrote on three thousand cigarette-paper pieces while in prison for a decade during the Derge regime. He is also editor in chief of the popular weekly newspaper Addis Admass.



  • Gabriela Melinescu

    Gabriela Melinescu (b. 1942) is an essayist, writer, poet, and translator. She published seven poetry collections in Romania and continued writing after she emigrated to Sweden in 1975, where she was the recipient of several literary prizes. She was in a relationship with the celebrated Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu and inspired many of his poems.



  • João Cabral de Melo Neto

    João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. After moving to Rio de Janeiro in 1942, he published his first collection of poems, entitled Pedra do Sono. In 1947 he was assigned to his first diplomatic post in Spain, where he continued to write. Most of Cabral's life was spent as a diplomat, which afforded him the opportunity to travel the world. Through all of his travels, he continued to write poetry, and at the end of his life, he had published over fifteen collections. He is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.



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    G. Mend-Ooyo

    Gombojavin Mend-Ooyo was born in Dariganga Province, Mongolia, in 1952. A poet, novelist, calligrapher, and cultural scholar, he is the director of the Mongolian Academy of Culture and Poetry in Ulaanbaatar.



  • Norge Espinosa Mendoza

    Poet, playwright, and cultural critic Norge Espinosa Mendoza (b. 1971, Santa Clara) is widely considered one of Cuba’s most important LGBTQ activists. His plays have premiered in Cuba, Puerto Rico, France, and the United States.



  • Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III

    Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III is the author of the novel Aklat ng mga Naiwan (2018), co-editor and co-translator of Wiji Thukul’s Balada ng Bala, translator of Mga Himutok sa Palikuran (2021), the Filipino-language edition of Eka Kurniawan’s collection of stories, and co-editor of Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines.


  • Ana Menéndez

    Ana Menéndez is the author of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, Loving Che, and The Last War. “You Are the Heirs of All My Terrors” is part of a new short-story collection, Adios Happy Homeland!, to be published by Grove/Atlantic’s Black Cat imprint in 2011. She lives in Miami and Amsterdam.



  • Filippo Menozzi

    Filippo Menozzi is a lecturer in postcolonial and world literature at Liverpool John Moores University and author of two books, Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance (2014) and World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time (2020).



  • Antonio Alessandro Mercadante

    Antonio Alessandro Mercadante (1962–2018) was an Italian art historian and critic specializing in twentieth-century Italian painting. His essays appeared in art catalogs by renowned Italian art publishers. In 2009 he began a collaboration with publisher Lussografica of Caltanissetta and produced five books of art history fundamental to the reconstruction of Sicilian art from the 1800s to the present. 


  • Michael Merriam

    Michael W. Merriam is an archaeologist specializing in displaced literature and children’s media. His work has been featured in Time Out, the New Yorker, n+1, and in a forthcoming anthology from Faber & Faber, City by City. He is currently at work on a translation of The Canterbury Tales.


  • Rima Najjar Merriman

    Rima Najjar Merriman is a professor of English literature at Al Quds University. She is one of the contributing writers for the recently published Al Jazeera English - Global News in a Changing World, and she contributed a chapter on Palestinian children in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide.



  • Henri Meschonnic

    Henri Meschonnic (1932–2009) is a key figure of French “new poetics,” best known worldwide for his translations from the Old Testament and the 710-page Critique du rythme. During his long career, Meschonnic generated controversy in the literary community. His poetry has received prestigious awards, including the Max Jacob International Poetry Prize, the Mallarmé Prize, the Jean Arp Francophone Literature Prize, and the Guillevic-Ville de Saint-Malo Grand Prize for Poetry. He was also nominated for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.