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Jake Ricafrente
Jake Ricafrente’s poetry has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere.
Photo: Anne Richterdiv>Anne Richter
Anne Richter (b. 1939) is a prominent Belgian author, editor, and scholar of the fantastic. Her first collection, Le fourmi a fait le coup, was written at the age of fifteen and translated as The Blue Dog by Alice B. Toklas. She is known for her twice-reprinted international anthology of female fantastical writers, whose introductory essay she expanded into a study of the genre. Her four collections have won her such Belgian honors as the Prix Franz De Wever, the Prix Félix Denayer, the Prix du Parlement, and the Prix Robert Duterme.
Tim Riley
NPR critic Tim Riley has written books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Madonna, and the history of rock gender. He publishes the riley rock report, an audio newsletter, where big ideas go to make the world smaller. He teaches digital journalism at Emerson College.
José Luis Rivas
José Luis Rivas (b. 1950, Tuxpan, Veracruz) was elected to the Mexican Academy of Language in 2013. A prolifically published poet, translator, and essayist, he has been awarded many national literary prizes for his books of poetry and for his translations of major poets from Europe, the US, and the Caribbean. The poem above is taken from Por mor del mar (2002).
Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera is the author of the young-adult novels The Education of Margot Sanchez and Dealing in Dreams (both by Simon & Schuster), and the middle-grade novel Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit (Little Brown Books for Young Readers). She lives in Los Angeles.
Cristina Rivera Garza
Author, translator, and critic Cristina Rivera Garza’s recent novels include The Taiga Syndrome (trans. Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana, 2018), The Iliac Crest (trans. Sarah Booker, 2017), and Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué (2016). She is distinguished professor and founder of the PhD in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Jehan L. Roberson
Jehan L. Roberson is a writer, educator, and artist using text as the basis of her interdisciplinary practice. She is a PhD student at Cornell University in English literature, where she explores transnational Black literary production. She holds an MA from New York University in humanities and social thought and has worked previously as the collections specialist for the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a video archive of performance practices in the Americas. Her work appears in Apogee, Public Books, Women & Performance, VICE, and Autostraddle, among others.
Erin Rodoni
Erin Rodoni is the author of two poetry collections: Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss (NFSPS Press, 2017), winner of the Stevens Award sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Cimarron Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Adroit Journal, among others. In 2017 she won the Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and the Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Linda Rodriguez
Linda Rodriguez’s newest book, Plotting the Character-Driven Novel, is based on her popular workshop. Her Skeet Bannion mystery novels—Every Hidden Fear, Every Broken Trust, and Every Last Secret—and her books of poetry—Skin Hunger and Heart’s Migration—have received critical recognition and awards, such as the St. Martin’s Press / Malice Domestic Best First Novel.
Photo: Valley Photo Pictures in Harlingen, Texasdiv>Chelsea Rodríguez
Originally from the Rio Grande Valley, Chelsea Rodríguez is a sophomore at Trinity University. An aspiring writer and artist, she participated in a 2017 Mellon Summer Undergraduate Research Program with Dr. Cantú.
Photo © Arlene Mejoradodiv>Luis J. Rodriguez
Luis J. Rodriguez has published fifteen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. He is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press, co-founder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore, and Los Angeles’s former Poet Laureate. Seven Stories Press will publish his latest book in early 2020: From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Musings and Imaginings.
Rob Roensch
Rob Roensch is the author of a short-story collection, The Wildflowers of Baltimore (Salt), and a novel, In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie (Belle Point Press). He is a professor of English and the Clary Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Oklahoma City University.
Kate Rogers
Kate Rogers’s poem “Baba Yaga’s Child” won second place in the 2018 Big Pond Rumors Contest (Canada). Her work was shortlisted for the 2017 Montreal International Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in Algebra of Owls (UK). Her poems have appeared in the Guardian.
Zack Rogow
Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His poetry collections include Irreverent Litanies as well as The Number Before Infinity and Talking with the Radio. He is currently completing a personal anthology of international poetry. Rogow’s blog, Advice for Writers, has more than two hundred posts. He serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.
Photo by Justin Yeediv>Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan is the author of The Weight of Him (St. Martin’s Press, 2017), In the Event of Contact (Dzanc Books, 2021), and Sing, I (TriQuarterly Books, 2024).
Courtesy of Barbara Romanowiczdiv>Zofia Romanowicz
Zofia Romanowicz (Radom, Poland, 18 October 1922 – Lailly-en-Val, France, 28 March 2010) was arrested by the Nazis in January 1941 and imprisoned for resistance activities. In April 1942 she was deported to Ravensbrück, and in September 1943 she was transferred to Neu-Rohlau. There, while working in a china factory, she wrote the premonitory poem “For My Little Girl . . .” She escaped in the spring of 1945 during an evacuation march and was taken to Rome. In 1946 she settled in Paris. Together with her husband, Kazimierz Romanowicz, they managed the bookstore and publishing house Libella and the Galerie Lambert for nearly fifty years. She wrote eleven novels and numerous short stories and poems. She was awarded the Kościelski Award in 1964 and the Prize of the Polish Ministry of Culture & National Heritage in 2001 for the totality of her work.
Photo by Valerie Blockdiv>Alexis Romay
Alexis Romay is the author of two novels and two books of poetry. He has translated novels into Spanish by Ana Veciana-Suarez, Margarita Engle, and Stuart Gibbs and a novel into English by Miguel Correa Mujica.
Levi Romero
New Mexico Centennial poet laureate Levi Romero is the author of Sagrado: A Photopoetics across the Chicano Homeland, A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works, and In the Gathering of Silence. He is from the Embudo Valley of northern New Mexico. He teaches in the Chicana/o Studies program at the University of New Mexico.
Diti Ronen
Diti Ronen is an Israeli poet and editor. She has published six full-length collections of poetry as well as numerous essays and articles. Her poetry has been translated and received international and national awards and published in literary magazines and anthologies worldwide, including the November issue of WLT.
Photo by Jamie Borlanddiv>Mira Rosenthal
Mira Rosenthal is the author of The Local World and translator of two books by Polish poet Tomasz Różycki. Her work has received numerous awards, including an NEA Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and the Northern California Book Award. She is assistant professor of poetry writing at Cal Poly.
Alireza Roshan
Alireza Roshan (b. 1977, Tehran) is the author of Becoming You, The Book of Absence, Cage Poetry, The Dot & 19 Other Stories, Fade, Kasreh, Leyli’s Shadow, A Little Book of Love, Moonstone, Soveyda, Underground Stories, and Us. He now lives in Turkey and tweets @AlirezaRoashan (sic).
Hephzibah Roskelly
Hephzibah Roskelly is professor emerita at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she taught writing and rhetoric, American literature, and women’s and gender studies. She now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and teaches occasional courses in literary study.