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  • Katherine Schoeffler

    Katherine Schoeffler is a recent graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where she majored in English with minors in chemistry and Spanish. She plans to pursue a career in medicine after graduation and loves traveling, working with children, photography, ballet, and a long mystery novel complete with a chai tea latte.



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    Don Schofield

    Don Schofield’s poetry volumes include In Lands Imagination Favors (Dos Madres Press, 2014); Before Kodachrome (FutureCycle Press, 2012); The Known: Selected Poems (of Nikos Fokas), 1981–2000 (Ypsilon Books, 2010); Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece (Truman State University Press, 2004); Approximately Paradise (University Press of Florida, 2002); and Of Dust (March Street Press, 1991). A recipient of the 2010 Criticos Prize (UK), he has also received honors from, among others, the State University of New York, Anhinga Press, Southern California Anthology, and Princeton University, where he was a Stanley J. Seeger Writer-in-Residence. He has been a resident of Greece for many years.



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    Dekel Shay Schory

    Dekel Shay Schory is an Israeli-born literary scholar and editor who teaches in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2016 Schory founded, with Yigal Schwartz and Moria Dayan Codish, a series of fiction books, Ruach Tzad (Side Wind). Over twenty books, published to critical and public acclaim, have appeared in the last three years.



  • Liesl Schwabe

    Liesl Schwabe is a writer, educator, and two-time Fulbright-Nehru Scholar. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, LitHub, and elsewhere. She currently oversees the Writing Center at Berkshire Community College and will be spending the 2024–25 academic year in Kolkata, India.



  • Saba Sebhatu

    Saba Sebhatu is a writer, photographer, and educator. She also worked as a peace-building practitioner in conflict-resolution initiatives after moving to Eritrea. Saba has received writing fellowships from Callaloo, AWP, and MVICW and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is currently working on a collection of essays. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction at the New School.



  • Fatoumata Seck

    Fatoumata Seck teaches and researches literatures and cultures of Africa and its diasporas. She is at work on a book, tentatively titled Materializing Imaginaries in Postcolonial Senegal, a cultural history of the Senegalese left, which offers insights into how literature and popular culture impact everyday life by bringing about political, economic, and urban imaginaries in Senegal and beyond.



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    David Sedaris

    David Sedaris is the author of the books Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Barrel Fever. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International’s This American Life. He lives in England.



  • DeNel Rehberg Sedo

    DeNel Rehberg Sedo is a professor at Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada).


  • Monica Seger

    Monica Seger is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Oklahoma. She works on landscape and environment in contemporary Italian literature and film. Her first book, Landscapes in Between, is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press.



  • Rhona Seidelman

    Rhona Seidelman is the Schusterman Chair of Israel Studies in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. Her scholarship is on the history of immigration, medicine, and public health in Israel. Her book Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate was published by Rutgers University Press in 2020.



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    Mika Seifert

    Mika Seifert works as first concertmaster for the Northeast German Symphony Orchestra. His short stories have recently been published in the Chicago Review, Image Journal, Antioch Review, Salt Hill, Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. 



  • SarahBelle Selig

    SarahBelle Selig is a freelance writer living in South Africa. She is the South African office head and publicist for Catalyst Press, a North American publisher of African authors, and recently completed her MFA in creative writing at University of Cape Town.



  • Ena Selimović

    Ena Selimović is a writer and translator who works from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian (BCMS) into English. In 2020 she was awarded the American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship for her translation of Maša Kolanović’s Sloboština Barbie (Underground Barbie). Currently she is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and associate research scholar at Yale University.


  • Inela Selimović

    Inela Selimović holds a PhD in Latin American literature and teaches at Wellesley College. This piece was largely inspired by her students at the Albright Institute in January 2014, who asked insightful questions about the power that aesthetic representations might have in war and postwar settings.



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    Zsuzsa Selyem

    Zsuzsa Selyem is a novelist, poet, translator, and associate professor in the Department of Hungarian Literature, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania. Her 2006 novel 9 kiló (Történet a 119. zsoltárra) (9 Kilos [Story on Psalm 119]) represented Hungary at the 2007 European First Novel Festival. In addition, she has published two volumes of short stories and five volumes of essays.



  • Sudeep Sen

    Sudeep Sen’s prizewinning books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980–2015 (London Magazine Editions), EroText (Vintage), Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms (Bloomsbury), and Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann). He has edited influential anthologies, including The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi), and he guest-edited the “Writing from Modern India” issue of WLT (Nov. 2010). Blue Nude: Ekphrasis & New Poems (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) and The Whispering Anklets are forthcoming. Sen’s works have been translated into over twenty-five languages. His words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Financial Times, Herald, Poetry Review, Literary Review, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on BBC, PBS, CNN IBN, NDTV, AIR, and Doordarshan. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), Leela: An Erotic Play of Verse and Art (Collins), Indian Love Poems (Everyman), Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe), Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell), and Name Me a Word (Yale). He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS, editor of Atlas, and currently the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Museo Camera. Sen is the first Asian honored to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and read at the Nobel Laureate Festival. The government of India awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of culture/literature.”



  • Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano

    Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano has short fiction recently appearing in the journal Banwa and Words Without Borders’ special issue on writing from the Philippines. 


  • Clemens Setz

    Clemens Setz (b. 1982, Graz) is an Austrian poet, novelist, playwright, and translator. He is the author of the novels Söhne und Planeten (2007; Sons and planets) and Die Frequenzen (2009; Frequencies). His play Mauerschau (View from the walls) premiered in Vienna’s Schauspielhaus. He was awarded the Ernst-Willner-Preis (2008), the Bremer Literaturpreis (2010), and the Outstanding Artist Award (2010). His novel Die Frequenzen was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2009 (see Ross Benjamin’s review on page 65 of the print edition). In his recent interview with Peter Constantine, Setz discusses the in-betweenness of writing both poetry and fiction.



  • Constantin Severin

    Constantin Severin is a Romanian writer and visual artist, founder and proponent of Archetypal Expressionism, a new art movement. A graduate of Iowa’s International Writing Program, he has published thirteen books of poetry, essays, and fiction. One of his recent books is the novel The Librarian of Hell.


  • Bewketu Seyoum

    Bewketu Seyoum is from Gojjam, Ethiopia, southwest of Addis Ababa. He studied psychology at Addis Ababa University and published his first collection of poems, Nwari Alba Gojowoch (Unmanned houses), in 2000, a year after graduating. He has published two further verse collections and two novels. His poetry has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and Callaloo. In 2008 he received the best young writer award of Ethiopia from the president. In 2011 he was attacked and badly beaten by a church deacon for writing a “blasphemous” article (“A Saint with No Legs,” www.thereporterethiopia.com). His story “Waiting” and two poems appear in WLT’s September 2012 print edition.



  • Mona Nicole Sfeir

    Mona Nicole Sfeir was born in New York City and grew up in five countries. She is both a poet and a visual artist and recently created an installation of fifty panels for the Los Angeles Immigration Law Center. The three poems are part of a manuscript, The Alphabet of Empire, that draws from the US DOD military dictionary and a dictionary from 1898.



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    Elif Shafak

    Elif Shafak is Turkey’s most-read woman writer and an award-winning novelist. She has published thirteen books, including nine novels and a nonfiction memoir, Black Milk. Her latest novel, The Architect’s Apprentice, was published by Penguin UK in November 2014. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages. Shafak is also active on social media (@Elif_Safak), with more than 1.6 million followers.


  • Arif Shah

    Arif Shah was born in Faisalabad pre-Partition. He is a Punjabi poet with a published volume of poetry. His poetry regularly appears in left-leaning political magazines, and he is often found reciting his poetry at political rallies.



  • Yudit Shahar

    Yudit Shahar grew up on the border of Sh’chunat HaTikvah, “the neighborhood of hope,” in Tel Aviv. She is the author of the prizewinning poetry collections It’s Me Speaking (2009) and Every Street Has Its Own Madwoman (2013) and recently won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize in Hebrew Literature for her body of work. Holy Illusion, her third collection, was published in January 2021.



  • Adeeba Shahid Talukder

    Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018), and her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets fellowship from Poets House.


  • Vera Shamina

    Vera Shamina is a full-time professor in the Department of World Literature at Kazan Federal University. She is a lecturer in English and American studies and the author of three monographs and over one hundred essays on different aspects of anglophone literature and drama.



  • Fatemeh Shams

    Fatemeh Shams’s third collection, When They Broke Down the Door, translated by Dick Davis, received the 2016 Latifeh Yarshater Award. She was recognized as one of the leading voices of exile when she won the Jaleh Esfahani poetry prize for the best young Iranian poet in 2012.



  • S. Shankar

    S. Shankar is a novelist, scholar, and translator. His third novel, Ghost in the Tamarind, set against the background of the anticaste movement in South India during the twentieth century, was published in 2017. The award-winning critical book Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular was published in 2012. Shankar is the editor of Caste and Life Narratives (2017). He teaches English at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa and blogs at his website, sshankar.net.


  • Robert Shapard

    Robert Shapard is editor, with James Thomas and Christopher Merrill, of an anthology of very short fiction forthcoming from W. W. Norton, Flash Fiction International. Another recent world anthology is Sudden Fiction Latino, very short fictions from Latin America and the United States, which he edited with James Thomas and Ray Gonzalez in 2010. He lives in Austin, Texas.



  • Lyudmila Sharga

    Lyudmila Sharga is a poet, prose writer, and head of the Diligance literary studio.