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Photo: Michael Markl div>Mandakini Pachauri
Mandakini Pachauri is an Indian poet writing in English. She lives in Vienna and is currently pursuing the Pan-European MFA at Cedar Crest College.
Ben Packham
Ben Packham lives in Sydney, Australia, working as an accountant. In his spare time, he indulges his hobbies of photography, woodworking, and riding his motorbike. He spent a year living and working in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with the United Nations between 2011 and 2012.
Deena Padayachee
Deena Padayachee is a native of Durban, South Africa, and works as a medical doctor in an Apartheid-era township in the city. During Apartheid, when the publishing of such tales was virtually impossible in the mainstream South African magazines, his short stories were published mainly in New York (Short Story International). During Apartheid, he published a book of prose poems called A Voice from the Cauldron (1987). His prizewinning book, What’s Love Got to Do with It? was prescribed for Kwa Zulu Natal matric students in 2004. His short stories have been widely anthologized.
Alexandra Pagán Vélez
Alexandra Pagán Vélez is the author of the story collections El diccionario y el Capitán (2010), Amargo (2014, 2018), Eneida y Martín: dos coquíes muy distintos (2018), Horror-REAL (2017, 2020), and Relatos de domingos (2014). She has also published the poetry collections Del Alzheimer y otros demonios (2014) and Cuando era niña hablaba como niña (2014).
Courtesy of NHPR (http://nhpr.org)div>Tom Paine
Tom Paine’s story “Oppenheimer Beach” appeared in the November 2012 issue of WLT. His poetry is upcoming or published in The Nation, Glasgow Review of Books, Volt, Fence, Blackbox Manifold (Cambridge), The Common, Epiphany, Green Mountain Review, Forklift, Tinderbox, Hunger Mountain, Hotel Amerika, Gulf Stream, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. Stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New England Review, The Boston Review, Best New Southern Stories, The O. Henry Awards and twice in the Pushcart Prize anthology. He has won fellowships from Sewanee, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf and written for Francis Ford Coppola. His first collection, Scar Vegas (Harcourt), was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway finalist. A graduate of Princeton and the Columbia MFA program, he is an associate professor in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire ([email protected]).
Frank Paino
Frank Paino’s poems have appeared in a variety of literary publications, including North American Review, Briar Cliff Review, and Lake Effect. He has received a Pushcart Prize, the Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature, and a 2016 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. His third book, Obscura, is forthcoming from Orison Books in 2020.
Al Panteliat
Al Panteliat is a poet and literary translator from Kharkiv. His work has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation (UK) as well as such journals as Krechatik, Deti Ra, and Novoya Yunost.
Stephanie Papa
Stephanie Papa is a poet and translator living in Paris, France. She is the poetry co-editor of Paris Lit Up literary magazine and holds an MFA in poetry from the Pan-European program. Her work has been published in World Literature Today, Niche, NOON, great weather for media, Four Chambers Press, and more.
Photo: Francesco Gattonidiv>Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Winner of multiple international awards including Ghana’s ACRAG award and France’s Prix Laure Bataillon, Nii Ayikwei Parkes is the author of Tail of the Blue Bird (novel) and The Makings of You (poetry). He is currently working on a crowd-funded collection of short stories, The City Will Love You (2018).
Photo: Shane Eppingdiv>Keija Parssinen
Keija Parssinen is the author of the novels The Ruins of Us, which received the Michener-Copernicus Award, and The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, which earned an Alex Award from the American Library Association. She is currently an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Kenyon College.
Elise Paschen
Elise Paschen is a member of the Osage Nation. She is the author of The Nightlife (forthcoming), Bestiary, and Infidelities (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner). Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, including the New Yorker and Poetry. Co-editor of Poetry Speaks and Poetry in Motion, she teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Photo © Marta Eloy Cichockadiv>Edward Pasewicz
Edward Pasewicz is a Polish poet and composer born in 1971. A Buddhist, he is the author of six books of poetry, including Verses for Róy Filipowicz (2004), th (2005), Songs of Henry Berryman (2006) (after John Berryman’s Dream Songs), Death in a Darkroom (2007), Fine! Fine! (2008), and Bertolt Brecht’s Palace (2011). Since 2010 he has lived in Kraków, where he is director of the performance space Scena 21.
Abdulla Pashew
Arguably the most popular living Kurdish poet, Abdulla Pashew draws audiences in the thousands when he gives readings. In addition to his eight volumes of poetry, Pashew is a prolific translator, fluent in Russian and English, responsible for bringing Whitman and Pushkin to Kurdish readership. He holds a master’s degree in pedagogy and a doctorate in philology.
Photo:Joelly Rodríguez div>Mara Pastor
Mara Pastor is a leading Puerto Rican poet, editor, and scholar. Pastor is the author of several collections of poetry, including Natal Debt, translated by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong, which was selected for the 2020 Ambroggio Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets, and is forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press. She is an associate professor of Spanish at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce.
J. R. Patterson
J. R. Patterson was born on a cattle and grain farm in rural Manitoba, Canada. He has worked as a farm laborer, factory worker, and writer. He has written for a variety of international publications, including National Geographic, Literary Review of Canada, and LARB.
J. R. Patterson
J. R. Patterson was born on a cattle and grain farm in rural Manitoba, Canada. He has worked as a farm laborer, factory worker, and writer. He has written for a variety of international publications, including National Geographic, Literary Review of Canada, and the LARB.
Cecilia Pavón
Cecilia Pavón has lived in Buenos Aires since the 1990s. She is a writer, editor, translator, and cofounder of the art gallery and publishing house Belleza y Felicidad. She is the author of four collections of short fiction and several poetry collections. Four of her books are available in English translation: Little Joy: Selected Stories (2021), A Hotel with My Name (2015), Nine Ways to Cry (2023), and Licorice Candies (2016). In 2020 she founded Microcentro, a space dedicated to poetic experimentation through workshops and readings.
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz (1914-1988) was born and raised in Mixcoac, a present-day part of Mexico City. His family supported Emiliano Zapata, and after his assassination, were forced into exile in the United States. Paz was only nineteen years of age when he published his first collection of poetry, entitled Luna Silvestre (Wild Moon). Throughout his career, Paz founded two literary journals,Barandal (1932) and Taller (1938). In 1945 he began working as a diplomat for the Mexican government, and traveled to such places as Paris, Tokyo, Geneva, and Mumbai. His travels influenced much of his work, and he published many of his books while working abroad.
Edmundo Paz-Soldán
Edmundo Paz-Soldán (b. Bolivia, 1967) is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and editor. His work has won multiple awards, including the Premio Nacional de Novela (Bolivia). He is Professor of Latin American Literature and Chair of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Paz-Soldán nominated Mario Vargas Llosa for the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Photo by Roni Frydmandiv>Sigal Naor Perelman
Sigal Naor Perelman (b. 1968) is a literary scholar and editor, founder and co-director of the Derech Ruach organization for the promotion of the study of the humanities in Israel, and teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Haifa University. She has published two research books on Natan Zach and Noah Stern. Her first volume of poetry, Machluta, was published in 2020.
Jaime Pérez González
Jaime Pérez González is a bilingual Tseltal-Spanish speaker from Mexico and a linguist who writes literature in his spare time. He is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz (2021–23). In 2022 he started an assistant professorship in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara.
Carlina Perna
Carlina Perna is an MFA candidate at UC Riverside, where they are managing editor of the Santa Ana River Review. Carlina is a poet, screenwriter, filmmaker, and educator who holds a BA in Spanish literary studies and religious studies from Occidental College and an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania. Carlina has also completed a Fulbright teaching grant at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil.
Photo: Denise Noonediv>Sasenarine Persaud
Sasenarine Persaud is the author of twelve books of fiction and poetry. He defines his aesthetics as Yogic Realism. His most recent book is Love in a Time of Technology (2014). Persaud’s next book, Monsoon on the Fingers of God, will be published in 2018. He lives in Florida.