Authors
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Michael Cope
Michael Cope (b. 1952) is a jeweler, writer, and karate teacher living in Cape Town, South Africa. He is married to Julia Martin and has three children. He has published three novels, two volumes of poems, and a memoir.
A. E. Copenhaver
A. E. Copenhaver is a writer, editor, and science communicator. Her debut novel, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, winner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, was published by Ashland Creek Press in 2022. Her flash fiction “Let Them Eat Trees” was published in the anthology Kirstofia.
Rachel Cordasco
Rachel Cordasco is a Wisconsin-based independent scholar, artist, and translator of Italian speculative fiction. Her book Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium is out from the University of Illinois Press. Find her at SFinTranslation.com.
Will H. Corral
In addition to books on Vargas Llosa and Bolaño, Will H. Corral’s work on the Spanish American novel includes Los novelistas como críticos (2 vols., 1991, with Norma Klahn), Cartografía occidental de la novela hispanoamericana (2010), and The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After (2013, co-author). He has been writing reviews and essays for WLT for nearly forty years. His Nueva cartografía occidental de la novela hispanoamericana is forthcoming.
Luis Correa-Díaz
Luis Correa-Díaz is a member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Chile) and Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes de Córdoba (Spain), poet and professor of digital humanities and human rights at the University of Georgia, and the author of several books, articles, and special dossiers, including Novissima verba: huellas digitales/cibernéticas en la poesía latinoamericana (2019). His poetry books include Americana-lcd (2021), metaverse (2021), Haikus nada más (2021), Los Haikus de Gus (2021 y 2020), Maestranza de San Eugenio (2020), Diario de un poeta recién divorciado (2000, 2005), . . . del amor hermoso (2019), impresos en 3D (2018), clickable poem@s (2016), Cosmological Me (2010, 2017), Mester de soltería (2006, 2008). He is a member of several editorial boards of European, Latin American, and US journals and has been a visiting professor at SUNY Albany, Instituto Iberoamericano – Berlín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, University of Liverpool, Universidad de Salamanca, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Bolivia, and Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaiso, Chile.
Bonnie Costello
Bonnie Costello’s essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, including the Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Literary Imagination, Salmagundi (forthcoming), Southern Review (listed as notable in the 2016 Best American Essays), and War, Literature & the Arts. She is professor of English (emerita) at Boston University.
John K. Cox
John K. Cox is a professor of eastern European history at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
Negma Coy
Negma Coy (Chi Xot, Guatemala) is a Maya Kaqchikel writer, painter, actress, and teacher from Guatemala. She writes in Maya Kaqchikel, Spanish, and in Maya glyphs. She has published the poetry collections XXXK’ (2015), Soy un búho (2016), Lienzos de herencia (2017), A orillas del fuego (2017), Tz’ula’, Guardianes de los caminos (2019), and Kikotem – Historias, cuentos y poesía kaqchikel (2019). She paints with oils on fabric, wood, and clay, teaches backstrap-loom weaving, and has participated in a number of theatrical productions in her town. She works with several different collectives so that the art of Indigenous peoples continues to flourish. She has participated nationally and internationally in numerous art and poetry festivals.
Alex Crayon
A former WLT intern, Alex Crayon is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Kansas.
Jennifer Croft
Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024), the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick, and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She lives in Los Angeles and Tulsa.
Elena Croitoru
Elena Croitoru is a British-Romanian writer. Her first poetry chapbook, The Country with No Playgrounds, won the Live Canon Chapbook prize and was published in 2021. Her first novel was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Prize – Best Unpublished Novel.
Luis Alberto de Cuenca
Luis Alberto de Cuenca (b. 1950, Madrid) is perhaps the one Spanish poet today who has influenced most of the younger generations of poets. He recently received the National Poetry Award for his latest book of poetry, Cuaderno de vacaciones (Visor, 2014). His poetry combines urban reality, pop culture, and classical antiquity while maintaining his own identity through irony, elegance, and a tone of lightheartedness.
Courtesy of FS&G/Richard Phibbsdiv>Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels The Hours, A Home at the End of the World, Specimen Days, Flesh and Blood, and By Nightfall. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours, which was a New York Times bestseller and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. He is a professor at Brooklyn College for the MFA program.
Mangalesh Dabral
Mangalesh Dabral (May 16, 1948–December 9, 2020) was an acclaimed poet, translator, and Hindi journalist. He was born in a village in the hills of Uttarakhand. He was a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award (India’s National Academy of Letters) in 2000 for his collection Ham jo dekhte hain (That we see), published in 1995. He returned the award in 2015, along with others, in protest against the killing of scholar M. M. Kalburgi and the growing atmosphere of violence and intolerance against writers. His other poetry collections include Pahar par lalten (Lantern on the mountains, 1981) and Ghar ka rasta (The way home, 1988), and he wrote a travel diary, Ek bar Iowa (Once Iowa, 1996). His poems have been widely translated and published in all major Indian languages as well as in English, Russian, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Bulgarian. Bertolt Brecht, Yannis Ritsos, Ernesto Cardenal, Pablo Neruda, and Zbigniew Herbert are among the major world poets Dabral translated into Hindi.
Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Louis-Philippe Dalembert (b. 1962) is a Haitian poet and novelist who writes in French and Haitian creole. He won the Prix special “Ville de Limoges” for his novel Noires Blessures in 2011. He divides his home between Berlin, Paris, and Port-au-Prince.
Brittany Danielecki
Brittany Danielecki is a third-year English literature and cultural studies student from Springtown, Texas. Post-graduation, she hopes to pursue an editorial career in the magazine industry, with a specific interest in publications focused on women’s empowerment.
Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels’s new book, Birth Marks, was published by BOA Editions in 2013. Other recent books include Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City (fiction), Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, and All of the Above, all published in 2011. His poem “Factory Love” is displayed on the roof of a race car. A native of Detroit, Daniels teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Photo by Shevaun Williamsdiv>Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author or editor of eighteen books, including several for children and young adults, and the recipient of multiple prizes, including the Neustadt Prize for International Literature, a National Book Critics Circle Award, an American Book Award, and the Story Prize. Her essays and stories have been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications.
Bei Dao
Bei Dao, one of China’s foremost modern poets, co-founded China’s first underground literary journal in 1978 and was exiled following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests (WLT, Nov. 2008). His memoirs were published as City Gate, Open Up (2017). He has lived in Hong Kong since 2007.
Candice Louisa Daquin
Candice Louisa Daquin is of Sephardi French/Egyptian descent. Born in Europe, Daquin was publishing director at the US embassy before immigrating to America to practice psychotherapy. Daquin has worked at rape crisis centers in three countries and regularly wrote for poetry periodicals Rattle and Northern Poetry Review. She is senior editor at Indie Blu(e) publishing, editorial partner with Raw Earth Ink, writer-in-residence for Borderless Journal, and editor of poetry for Pine Cone Review and Parcham Literary Magazine.
Najwan Darwish
Najwan Darwish is an internationally renowned Palestinian poet whose earlier works include two award-winning collections translated into English: Nothing More to Lose and Exhausted on the Cross. He lives in Jerusalem.
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish (b. 1942) is an Arab poet and political activist. He has published around 30 poetry and prose collections that have been translated into 35 languages. Several of his poems have been put to music. In 1997, a documentary was producted about him by French-Israeli director Simone Bitton. Darwish is the winner of the 2001 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.
J. P. Das
Dr. J. P. (Jagannath Prasad) Das (b. 1936) is a well-known Oriya poet, playwright, and fiction writer. Most of his works have been translated into English and other Indian languages, and his plays have been staged in many languages all over India. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Saraswati Samman. A noted art historian, he has published several books on Orissan art.
Photo: Luís Maríndiv>Tere Dávila
Tere Dávila (b. San Juan) is the recipient of two Puerto Rican National Prizes: for her novel, Nenísimas, and the short-story collection Aquí están las instrucciones, both published in 2018. She has also published three other short-fiction collections, children’s books, and books on Puerto Rican culture. Her short stories have been translated and feature in international anthologies and literary magazines. In 2017 she received Puerto Rico’s New Voices Award, and in 2015 her short story “El fondillo maravilloso” was adapted into an award-winning short film.
Matthew Davis
Matthew Davis is the founding director of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University. He’s the author of When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter’s Tale. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and Guernica, among other places. He has been an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America, a Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, and a Fulbright Fellow to Syria and Jordan.
J. Madison Davis
J. Madison Davis is the author of eight mystery novels, including The Murder of Frau Schütz, an Edgar nominee, and Law and Order: Dead Line. He has also published seven nonfiction books and dozens of short stories and articles, including his crime and mystery column in WLT since 2004.
tanita s. davis
tanita s. davis is the award-winning author of nine novels for young readers, including Figure It Out, Henri Weldon, Partly Cloudy, and Mare’s War, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and earned her a nomination for the NAACP Image Award. Tanita is a lifelong resident of Northern California.
