Authors

Beth Brown Preston

Beth Brown Preston is a poet and novelist with two collections of poetry from the Broadside Lotus Press and two chapbooks of poetry, including Oxygen II (Moonstone Press, 2022). She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Writing Program of Goddard College. She has been a CBS Fellow in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bread Loaf Scholar. Her work has been recognized by the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, the Writer’s Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and by the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in many literary and scholarly journals and magazines.

Edith Bruck

Edith Bruck is a transnational Italian writer and the author of two dozen novels, short-story collections, books of poetry, and works of nonfiction. Born in Hungary in 1931, she has been publishing works of literature in Italian since 1959, five years after permanently settling in Italy.

Andrea Bryant

Andrea Bryant is a PhD candidate (ABD) in German at Georgetown University. Combining insights from critical discourse analysis, critical race theory, and culturally sustaining pedagogy, her dissertation project interrogates how discourses of diversity affect representation and treatment of Blackness in the teaching of German language(s) and literature(s) in the United States.

Ahlam Bsharat

Ahlam Bsharat is a Palestinian novelist, poet, children’s author, and teacher of creative writing. She is a prominent and highly regarded author in the Arab world and internationally. Her books have been included in IBBY lists, shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award (UK), and finalists for the Etisalat Award for Children’s Literature (UAE).

Christopher Buckley

Mark Budman

Mark Budman (markbudman.com) is a writer, inventor, engineer, translator, interpreter, and photographer. He is the publisher of the flash-fiction magazine Vestal Review and the author of the novel My Life at First Try. Born in the former Soviet Union, he now lives in Boston. 

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Irene Bulla

Irene Bulla is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Oklahoma. She is interested in representations of the supernatural and the monstrous in modern and contemporary fiction. She serves as contributing editor for Italian at World Literature Today and works as a literary translator.

Carina Burman

Carina Burman is a writer and literary researcher affiliated with Uppsala University. She made her debut in 1993 with Min salig bror Jean Hendrich and has written a total of ten novels—most recently, Death Takes a Holiday (2025). In 2023 her essay collection on Golden Age crime novels, Drottningar och pretendenter: Om guldålderns deckarförfattarinnor, was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy’s prize for nonfiction book of the year.

Parker Buske

Parker Buske is WLT’s art director.

Peter Buwalda

Peter Buwalda is a Dutch journalist, novelist, and editor at various publishing houses.

Rumena Bužarovska

Rumena Bužarovska is the author of three short-story collections: Čkrtki (Scribbles, 2007), Osmica (Wisdom tooth, Blesok, 2010), and Mojot maž (My husband, 2014). She is a literary translator from English into Macedonian, and her translations include Lewis Carroll, J. M. Coetzee, Truman Capote, and Richard Gwyn. She is assistant professor of American literature at the State University of Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia, where she was born in 1981.

Ariell Cacciola

Ariell Cacciola is a writer whose work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, and Publishers Weekly, among others. She is the world literature editor at The Mantle and is finishing her first novel.

César Andrés Caicedo

César Andrés Caicedo is a professor and educational consultant with a background in literary and cultural studies. His current work explores narratives of migration, decolonial theory, and testimonial writing in peace processes. He is also the founder of Ser Escuela Foundation, a pedagogical consultancy focused on social weaving and educational transformation.

Esthela Calderón

Esthela Calderón (b. 1970, Nicaragua) is the author of Soledad (2002), which won the Juegos Florales Centroamericanos prize; Amor y conciencia (2004), and Soplo de Corriente vital: poemas etnobotánicos(2008). She also wrote a novel set during the 1979 Nicaraguan insurrection, 8 caras de una moneda (2006), co-authored Culture and Customs of Nicaragua (2008), and is currently general coordinator of the municipal theater in León, Nicaragua.

Wendy Call

Wendy Call is co-editor of two anthologies, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide and Best Literary Translations, author of the award-winning book No Word for Welcome, and translator of three poetry collections. She lives in Seattle and Oaxaca.

Pablo Calvi

Pablo Calvi (PhD, Columbia University, 2011) is an assistant professor at the Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College, where he teaches courses on multiplatform journalism and comparative narrative nonfiction. He is a guest lecturer in Columbia University / Universitat de Barcelona masters program in Barcelona, Spain, and has taught comparative Latin American and Anglo-American narrative journalism at CELSA, the Graduate School of Communications at Sorbonne University, in Paris, France. Calvi is also a professional journalist and a published author. He has worked for newspapers and investigative magazines in Argentina, Colombia, México, Brazil, and the United States. In 2001 he was the first Latino to earn a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship in the history of the Pulitzer Prizes. He was also the recipient of the 2010 Greenberg Research Prize for Literary Journalism Studies and the winner of the 2010 CELSA-Sorbonne Writing Fellowship. His main interests are Latin American narrative journalism, crónica, and the correlation between democracy and the free press.

Italo Calvino

Bibiana Camacho

Bibiana Camacho (b. Mexico City, 1974) is a former ballerina, editor, translator, and bookbinder. Her novels are Tras las huellas de mi olvido (2010) and Lobo (2017); her collections of short stories are Tu ropa en mi armario (2010) and La sonámbula (2014). In 2007 she received an honorable mention in the Juan Rulfo First Novel Prize for Tras las huellas de mi olvido. Her grandmother always seemed to her a great literary figure, so she writes using her name.

Lauren Camp

Lauren Camp is the author of four books, most recently Turquoise Door. She is the recipient of the Dorset Prize, a fellowship from Black Earth Institute, and a finalist citation for the Arab American Book Award. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.

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Merve Çanak

Merve Çanak was born in 1994 and grew up in Istanbul. She studied English language and literature at Yeditepe University and published her first poetry book, Hiçölüm, in 2018. She has worked at Norgunk Publishing House as an editor and is passionate about avant-garde and experimental writing.

Norma Cantú

Norma E. Cantú currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio. She recently received the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. She is the author of the award-winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera. She has published poetry in a number of venues including Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, and the Latina/Chicana Studies Journal. Her novel Cabañuelas, A Love Story will be out in spring 2019. She is cofounder of CantoMundo, a space for Latin@, poets and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.

Matías Capelli

Matías Capelli (b. 1982, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He has published two books of short stories, two novels, and has directed a documentary essay about monuments and politics in Buenos Aires.

Paola Capriolo

Paola Capriolo (b. 1962) is an Italian novelist, a reviewer for Corriere della Sera, and a translator of German fiction. Her own work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch, and Japanese.