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Sydney Stutler
Sydney Stutler is a student at the University of Oklahoma. She will graduate in 2021 with a degree in English literature and a minor in linguistics. She spends her free time reading, baking, and watching The Great British Bake Off. She is currently working as a copyeditor at the OU Daily and hopes to work in publishing after graduation.
Karla Suárez
Karla Suárez (b. 1969, La Habana) is the author of several novels as well as the short-fiction collections Carroza para actores and Espuma. In 2019 she won the Julio Cortázar award for best Iberoamericano Short Story. In 2007 she was among the thirty-nine young writers chosen as the best from Latin America. She now lives in Lisbon, Portugal, where she coordinates the Cervantes Institute Reading Club and is a professor of creative writing at the Madrid Writers School. Photo by Francesco Gattoni.
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Born in Tumeremo, Bolívar, in 1933, Venezuelan writer Guillermo Sucre is also an essayist, translator, literary critic, and educator. A cofounder, in 1957, of the literary group Sardio, he has taught at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Simón Bolívar, and University of Pittsburgh. He was awarded, in 1976, the Premio Nacional de Literatura for his nonfiction volume La máscara, la transparencia (Mask and translucence, 1975). Among his books are En el verano cada palabra respira en el verano (In the summer, each word breathes in summer, 1976), Serpiente breve (Brief serpent, 1977), and La vastedad (Vastness, 1990). He also wrote Borges, el poeta (Borges, the poet, 1967), a study on the work of the Argentine author of “The Aleph.”
Heather I. Sullivan
Heather I. Sullivan is professor of German and comparative literature at Trinity University. She is co-editor of German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene (2017); The Early History of Embodied Cognition from 1740–1920 (2016); and of special journal issues on ecocriticism in New German Critique (2016), Colloquia Germanica (2014), and ISLE (2012).
Photo by Ann Townsenddiv>Pireeni Sundaralingam
Pireeni Sundaralingam is a cognitive scientist and poet. Educated at Oxford, her poems appear in over thirty journals and have been translated into five languages. She is a Fellow at the Exploratorium, a Salzburg Global Fellow, and Principal Advisor on Human Potential for UN Live, the Museum for the United Nations, where she leads research on issues such as climate change engagement. She is currently writing a book of lyric essays about the brain.
Oleg Suslov
Oleg Suslov is the editor in chief of Odesa Evening News, the oldest continually running newspaper in Odesa.
Brian Swann
Brian Swann has published many books in various genres—poetry, fiction, children’s books, translations, Native American Studies, etc. His most recent publications are Sunday Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2018) and Not the Real Marilyn Monroe (MadHat Press, 2018), who next year will publish Sunday Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Fiction. The poems printed here are from a new manuscript. He teaches at the Cooper Union in NYC.
Thea Swanson
Thea Swanson is a feminist atheist who holds an MFA in writing from Pacific University in Oregon and is the founding editor of Club Plum literary journal. Her flash-fiction collection, Mars, was published by Ravenna Press in 2017. Her hybrid essay and poem collection, How to Be a Woman, was longlisted for the 2021 Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. Her poetry, short stories, and essays are published in many journals.
Photo by Katy Swarovskayadiv>Feodor Swarovski
Feodor Swarovski was born in Moscow in 1971. He emigrated to Denmark in 1990 at the age of nineteen but returned to Moscow in 1997. He is a journalist who has worked for Russian television as well as print media. Swarovski's first book of poetry, Vse khotiat byt' robotami (2007; Everyone wants to be a robot), received the Moskovsky Schet prize and was short-listed for the Andrei Belyi prize. He was short-listed for the Andrei Belyi prize again in 2009 for his poetry collection Puteshestvenniki vo vremeni (Time travelers). Swarovski's poetry has been translated into English, Bulgarian, Danish, Polish, Slovenian, and Ukranian.