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Chip Rossetti
Chip Rossetti has a doctorate in modern Arabic literature from the University of Pennsylvania. His published translations include Beirut, Beirut, by Sonallah Ibrahim; Metro: A Story of Cairo, by Magdy El Shafee; and Utopia, by Ahmed Khaled Towfik. He is currently editorial director for the Library of Arabic Literature at NYU Press.
Henk Rossouw
Henk Rossouw is from Cape Town, South Africa. His debut, Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize. The African Poetry Book Fund included his chapbook The Water Archives in Tano, the 2018 New-Generation African Poets box set. Poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Massachusetts Review, and Boston Review, among other places.
Henriette Rostrup
Henriette Rostrup is a Danish writer of both adult and children’s fiction. Her novel A Year of Funerals (2015) was longlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016 and chosen as Aller Favorite in 2016. Her graphic novel The Lake was nominated for best debut in the Ping Prize for 2018. Her short story “The Final Chapter” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Adam Rovner
Adam Rovner (www.adamrovner.com) is an associate professor of English and Jewish literature at the University of Denver. His articles, essays, translations, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications. His narrative history of the Territorialist movement, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel, was published by NYU Press in 2014.
Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy is the author of two works of nonfiction, How I Became a Tree and Provincials, as well as Missing: A Novel, My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories, and two collections of poems, Out of Syllabus and VIP: Very Important Plant. She teaches at Ashoka University in Sonipat, Haryana.
Photo by Slav Zatokadiv>Tomasz Różycki
Tomasz Różycki rose to both critical and popular prominence as an important voice of his generation in Poland when his fifth book, Twelve Stations, won the Kościelski Prize in 2004. Różycki was first introduced to anglophone readers with Mira Rosenthal’s translation of a selected poems, followed by his sonnet collection Colonies, which won the 2014 Northern California Book Award and was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
Aaron Rudolph
Aaron Rudolph is an instructor of composition at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. He authored the collection Sacred Things (Bridge Burner’s Publishing, 2002) and has poems in the anthologies Two Southwests (Visual Arts Collective, 2008) and Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010).
Brandon Rushton
Brandon Rushton’s poems appear in Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Bennington Review, CutBank, Sonora Review, and Passages North among other journals. In 2016 he was the winner of both the Gulf Coast Prize and the Ninth Letter Award for Poetry. In 2017 he served as the Theodore Roethke Fellow at the Marshall Fredericks Museum. Born and raised in Michigan, he now lives and writes in Charleston, South Carolina, and teaches writing at the College of Charleston.
Photo by Edyta Dufajdiv>Michał Rusinek
Michał Rusinek (b. 1972) is a lecturer in literary theory, rhetoric, and creative writing at Jagiellonian University as well as the translator of many books for children (by such writers as A. A. Milne and J. M. Barrie) and adults (including Edward Gorey). He writes essays, limericks, short stories, radio plays, television scripts, and song lyrics. He was secretary to the Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska and runs the literary foundation named for her.