Authors
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Photo by Meredith Mashburndiv>Erika Almenara
Erika Almenara is assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Arkansas. She received her PhD in Romance languages and literatures (Spanish) from the University of Michigan in 2015. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production, especially in the cases of subaltern/marginalized subjects and communities. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Letras Femeninas, Revista Iberoamericana, Dissidences, and Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. Dr. Almenara’s book, The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru, is under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press for publication in 2022. Almenara is also a published author and teaches a course called Creative Writing in Spanish, which she created in 2017.
Shir Alon
Shir Alon is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research and reviews of modern Arabic and Hebrew cultures have appeared in WLT, boundary 2, Arab Studies Journal, Comparative Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues.
Courtesy of the University of Missouridiv>Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso graduated with an AB in English from Kenyon College in 2014 and was the first Turner Fellow in Poetry at Stony Brook University, where he received his MFA. He is a Gus T. Ridgel Fellow in English at the University of Missouri, where he is a PhD candidate studying the cultural transmission of nymphs and fauns in literature. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Noble/Gas Qtrly, Southampton Review, Levure Littéraire, and other journals. Honeyvoiced, his first book, was published by XOXOX Press in 2014, and his chapbook, The Lovers’ Phrasebook, was published by Red Flag Poetry Press in 2017.
Zeynep Alp
Zeynep Alp is a seasoned editor, translator, international copyrights manager, and curriculum developer with extensive experience spanning fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. She is currently translating Shereen Malherbe’s The Land Beneath the Light into Turkish and has previously translated Miko Peled’s The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. Dedicated to education and cultural preservation, she is actively developing a decolonized K–12 curriculum on Palestine’s history and culture, aimed at fostering deeper understanding and empathy through storytelling and innovative pedagogy. Her work bridges literature and education, ensuring that voices from diverse cultures are amplified and shared with global audiences.
Photo by Dina Assaddiv>Shahd Alshammari
Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti author, poet, and academic. She is the author of the books Notes on the Flesh and Head above Water as well as numerous other academic publications and papers. Her areas of research include gender studies, illness narratives, and disability studies.
Selçuk Altun
Selçuk Altun (b.1950) is a Turkish writer who writes novels. Three of his novels have been published in an English translation.
Photo: Andi Crowndiv>Ivy Alvarez
Ivy Alvarez’s collections include The Everyday English Dictionary (Paekakariki Press), Hollywood Starlet (dancing girl press), and Disturbance (Seren). Born in the Philippines and raised in Australia, she lived in Wales for a decade before arriving in New Zealand in 2014.
Stefani J. Alvarez
Stefani J. Alvarez (she/her) won the Philippine National Book Award for Ang Autobiografia ng Ibang Lady Gaga (2015) and was a finalist for her novel Kagay-an, At Isang Pag-Ibig sa Panahon ng All-Out War (2018). She is currently an Akademie Schloss Solitude fellow in Germany.
Photo by Alonso Sambolíndiv>Alejandro Álvarez Nieves
Alejandro Álvarez Nieves (b. 1976, Río Piedras) is a poet, narrator, and translator. As a poet, he has published El proceso traductor (2012) and Quiebre de armas. “#PuertoRicoRises” is included in its Spanish version in Galería de comandos (2019). As a translator, he collaborated with the rendering of Ntozake Shange’s Wild Beauty (2018) into Spanish.
Lauren Alwan
Lauren Alwan was born in New York City, raised in Los Angeles, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, numerous journals, and was recently anthologized in A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home (2020). She is a columnist at Catapult, a reviewer at Litstack, and a prose editor at museum of americana, an online literary review.
Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Guernica, and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and the Crab Orchard Series. Her debut novel, Salt Houses, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017 and won the Arab American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her newest novel, The Arsonist’s City, was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Liyanage Amarakeerthi
Liyanage Amarakeerthi is a contemporary Sri Lankan writer. His novel Atawaka Puththu (Half Moon Sons), won the Best Sinhala Novel award at the 2008 State Literary Festival. He is also the recipient of the National Award for Literature in 2000, Swarna Pusthaka Awards in 2014 and 2016, and the Vidyodaya Literary Award in 2014 for his fiction and prose works.
Ana Luísa Amaral
Ana Luísa Amaral was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1956. She has written poetry, plays, children’s books, and a novel. The recipient of several national and international awards, Amaral’s works have been translated into some twenty languages. She has two books in English: The Art of Being a Tiger (2016) and What’s in a Name (2019).
Maxim Amelin
Maxim Amelin is the 2017 recipient of Russia’s Poet Prize, the youngest writer so honored. His works include Cold Odes (1996), Dubia (1999), The Horse of the Gorgon (2003), and Bent Speech (2011), his collected poetry and prose. He lives in Moscow.
Arao Ameny
Arao Ameny is a Ugandan-born, US-based poet and writer who earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Baltimore. She has an MA in journalism from Indiana University and a BA in political science from the University of Indianapolis. Her first published poem, “Home Is a Woman,” appeared in the Southern Review in 2020 and won the James Olney Award. She was a winner of the 2020 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, a finalist for the 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and a nominee for the 2021 Best New Poets Anthology. Currently, she has a one-year contract role as a biography writer and editor at the Poetry Foundation.
Rea Amit
Rea Amit is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. He has published mainly on Asian media, aesthetics, and theory in several journals such as Philosophy East and West and Positions, as well as several book chapters in edited volumes. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Programed Viewership: Japanese Televisuality, Seriality, and Film as a Social Medium.
Kebir M. Ammi
Born in Taza, Morocco, Kebir Ammi currently lives in Paris. A novelist, essayist, and playwright, he is the author, notably, of Le Ciel sans détours, Les Vertus immorales, and Mardochée, all published by Gallimard. Ben Aïcha, published by Mémoire d’encrier (Montreal, 2019), was reviewed in the Winter 2020 issue of WLT. His latest novel, À la recherche de Glitter Faraday, was published by Éditions Project’îles (Paris, 2023).
Kebir Ammi
Born in Taza, Morocco, Kebir Ammi currently lives in Paris. A novelist, essayist, and playwright, he is the author, notably, of Le Ciel sans détours, Les Vertus immorales, and Mardochée, all published by Gallimard. His latest novel, Ben Aïcha, published by Mémoire d’encrier (Montreal, 2019), was reviewed in the Winter 2020 issue of WLT.
María Fernanda Ampuero
Writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero (b. 1976, Guayaquil, Ecuador) has been published in newspapers and magazines around the world and is the author of two narrative nonfiction titles and two short-story collections: Cockfight and Human Sacrifices. In 2012 she was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Latin Americans in Spain.
Ugochukwu Anadị
Ugochukwu Anadị is a contributor to African Theatre Magazine and book review editor at Afreecan Read. He has previously interned at Counterclock, Narrative Landscape Press, and Griots Lounge Publishing, Canada, where he currently works. A graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Anadị is chiefly concerned with the critical interventions in African literature across genres.
Anamika
Anamika is an established Hindi poet and essayist. She has won several national awards for her collections of poems, essays, and fiction and teaches English literature at Satyawati College (University of Delhi). Her trilogy woven around the characters of Pandita Ramabai, Dhela Bai, and Tara insightfully traces the meaning of mukti in its different registers. From salvation to liberation, from the divine call phenomenon to the call center and call girl phenomenon, Mukti travels a long way. Against the backdrop of the three phases of the Freedom movement, stree-mukti also has traveled far and wide. In its representation of different ontological and material issues, this novel in three parts has earned her wide acclaim.
Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya (b. 1937) is an American author who has written novels, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s books. Some awards he has received include the New Mexico Book Awards’ People’s Choice Award in 2007 and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2011.
Liliana Ancalao
Liliana Ancalao (b. 1961) is a member of the Mapuche-Tehuelche Nankulaven community in the Patagonian province of Chubut in southern Argentina. She is a leading Mapuche poet, and her academic investigations of Mapuche culture and indigenous musics are similarly acclaimed.
Michaela Anchan
Michaela Anchan (www.michaelaanchan.com) is a current student in VCFA’s International Master of Fine Arts, a low-residency program offering majors in fiction, nonfiction, and literary translation. Michaela is a New Zealander living in Hamburg, Germany.
Todd Anderson
For the last dozen years, with support from the National Science Foundation and United States Antarctic Program, artist Todd Anderson (with fellow artists Ian van Coller and Bruce Crownover) has been traveling the planet documenting the effects of the global climate crisis while creating collaborative artists’ books with varying scientists and scholars. See examples of Todd’s artwork at ToddAndersonArtist and TheLastGlacier.
Ashanti Anderson
Ashanti Anderson is a poet and screenwriter. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside. You can read more of her work in Poetry, Crab Fat Magazine, and Foothill. She currently lives in Texas.
Alison Anderson
Alison Anderson is a novelist and translator. Her most recent novel, The Summer Guest, based on an episode in the life of Anton Chekhov, was published this year, and her translation of Boualem Sansal’s 2084: The End of the World is forthcoming in January 2017. She lives in Switzerland.
