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Undiano-Davis with Rudolfo Anayadiv>RC Davis-Undiano
RC Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor and Presidential Professor of English, directs the World Literature Today organization and the Latinx Studies program at the University of Oklahoma. In 2018 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame.
Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Robert Con Davis-Undiano is executive director for the World Literature Today organization, overseeing all of its operations including Chinese Literature Today and Latin American Literature Today. He is Neustadt Professor in Literature and director of the Latino Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma. He also provides leadership at OU’s College of Liberal Studies and the OU Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies. He was the host of the Current Conversations TV show on OETA (public television) and KGOU (radio). His most recent book is Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2017).
Photo by Chris Abanidiv>Kwame Dawes
Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty-two collections of poetry, including, most recently, Nebraska: Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). The recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, he is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, and the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner.
Photo by Maya Haliva Allondiv>Maya Tevet Dayan
Maya Tevet Dayan (b. 1975) is an Israeli-Canadian poet and writer. She’s the recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister award for literature in 2018. Poems from her two critically acclaimed poetry collections have been translated into several languages, and she is also a translator of Sanskrit poetry.
D Dayton
D Dayton is a translator and scholar of modern Chinese literature and the comparative indigenous poetics of East Asia and North America. He was a recipient of a Henry Luce Foundation Chinese Poetry and Translation Fellowship in 2016, and his translations have appeared in anthologies such as The Columbia Sourcebook for Literary Taiwan and on Poetry International Web.
Laura Da’
Laura Da’ is a poet and public schoolteacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her first book, Tributaries, won the American Book Award.
Palmira De Angelis
Palmira De Angelis is a writer and literary critic based in Rome. She is the author of the story collections Ultimo banco (Edilet, 2009) and A parte i colori (Edizioni Ensemble, 2018), which won the International Literary Award Città di Cattolica in 2019.
Oliver de la Paz
Oliver de la Paz is the author of four books of poetry. His most recent collection, Post Subject: A Fable, was published by the University of Akron Press. He is the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board, and he teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Diego De Silva
Diego De Silva (b. 1964) has written plays, screenplays, and six novels. His novel I Hadn’t Understood won the Naples Prize for fiction and was a finalist for the Strega Prize in Italy. His books have been translated into eight languages.
Aleš Debeljak
Aleš Debeljak is a Slovenian poet and cultural critic. His poetry books in English include The City and the Child, Dictionary of Silence, and Anxious Moments, and his nonfiction works include The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the Post-Communist World, Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and Its Historical Forms, and Twilight of the Idols: Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia. A former Roberta Buffet Professor of International Studies at Northwestern University, he teaches at the University of Ljubljana and the Collège d’Europe, Natolin-Warsaw.
Ludovic Debeurme
Ludovic Debeurme (b. 1971) is a French graphic novelist and illustrator. He first published his work in Comix 2000, an anthology. His graphic novel Lucille won the René Goscinny Prize in 2006.
Allison deFreese
Poet, translator, and NEA Translation Fellow Allison deFreese is conference chair of the Oregon Society of Translator and Interpreters (OSTI) and editor of the A Proclamation for Peace project, forthcoming in summer 2024.
Erwin Dejasse
Erwin Dejasse has a PhD in art history and is an exhibitions curator, academic researcher, and lecturer specialized in comics. He writes also regularly about art brut and other visual art forms at the margin. He is currently the curator of La “S” Grand Atelier’s art collection.
Brenda Delfino
Brenda Delfino is a poet and a writer born in Argentina and based in Riverside, California. She is pursuing an MFA in creative writing and writing for the performing arts from the University of California, Riverside. Her works have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Spectrum magazine, and Insight magazine.
Guy Delisle
Guy Delisle (b. 1966) is a Canadian graphic novelist and animator. His graphic novel Chroniques de Jérusalem won the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album in 2012. In France, the graphic novel was a best-seller.
Friedrich Christian Delius
Friedrich Christian Delius (b. 1943) is a German writer who has published more than a dozen novels as well as poetry collections. His work has been translated into 17 languages. Some of the literary prizes he has received include the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Georg Büchner Prize, and the Critics Prize.
Yevgeny Demenok
Yevgeny Demenok is a writer and scholar of the work of renowned modernist David Burliuk.
Photo by Miguel Buenodiv>Daniel Dencik
Daniel Dencik is an award-winning Danish writer and film director. His films include the documentary Expedition to the End of the World, which can be viewed on Netflix. As a writer he is known for an existential and bittersweet look on life. “Labrador” is from Grand Danois, a collection of short stories nominated as Book of the Year in Denmark 2017.
Chard deNiord
Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (2020), as well as two books of interviews with eminent American poets titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on Twentieth-Century Poetry (2011) and I Would Lie to You if I Could (2018). He taught English and creative writing at Providence College for twenty-two years, where he is now professor emeritus. For the past four years, he has worked as the essay editor at Plume poetry journal, and from 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont.
Kaitlyn Denton
Kaitlyn E. Denton is pursuing an accelerated master’s degree in literary and cultural studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is a former intern for WLT and is currently serving on the WLT Student Advisory Board.
Ming Di
Ming Di is a Chinese poet based in the US. The author of seven books of poetry in Chinese and one in collaborative translation, River Merchant’s Wife (2012), she has compiled and co-translated New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Empty Chairs: Poems by Liu Xia, The Book of Cranes, and New Poetry from China 1917–2017. She has also co-guest-edited three issues of Mānoa. For her translation of English poetry into Chinese, she received the Lishan Poetry Award and the 10+ Translator Award in 2021 in China.
Rossella Di Paolo
Rossella Di Paolo (b. 1960, Lima) studied literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her most recent verse collection, La silla en el mar, won the “Luces” Prize awarded by the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio for 2016 Best Book of Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of anthologies of Peruvian and Latin American poetry. In 2020 she won the Premio Casa de la Literatura Peruana prize and was distinguished as a Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture.
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz (b. 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review. His novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008.
Wilhelm Dichter
Wilhelm Dichter (b. 1935) is a Polish-American writer, his 1996 literary debut God’s Horse was nominated for the Nike, the top literary award in Poland. His second book The Atheists’ School also was nominated for the Nike. He and his wife currently reside in the Boston area.
Bernard Diederich
Bernard Diederich (b. 1926) is a New Zealand-born writer and historian. His awards include the Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal in 1976, the Overseas Press Club’s Mary Hemingway citation for the best reporting abroad in 1983, the James Nelson Goodsell Award in 2003, as well as the Caonabo de Oro Award in 2003.
Lisa DiGiovanni
Lisa DiGiovanni is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana State University. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth- through twentieth-century Spanish Peninsular and Latin American literature and film from a transnational perspective, with an emphasis on the relationship among history, literature, memory, nostalgia, and gender.
Photo by Saša Kovačićdiv>Lidija Dimkovska
Lidija Dimkovska (b. 1971, North Macedonia) has published seven books of poetry, four novels, one short-story collection, and one American diary. She is widely awarded and has been translated into seventeen languages. Her most recent novel, Personal Identification Number (2023), received the most prestigious Macedonian award for fiction, Novel of the Year. She lives in Slovenia.
