Authors

Diego De Silva

Sietse de Vries

Sietse de Vries is a Dutch author. His novel Bak was published in 2012.

Siddhartha Deb

Born in Shillong, northeastern India, Siddhartha Deb lives in New York. His fiction and nonfiction have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, and been awarded the PEN Open Book Award and the 2024 Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize. His journalism and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, New Republic, Dissent, The Baffler, n+1, and Caravan.

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.

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.

Paul Scott Derrick

Author of critical essays, translations, and poems, Paul Scott Derrick teaches American literature at the University of Valencia in Spain.

Whitney DeVos

Whitney DeVos is a scholar, translator, and writer. Much of her current work focuses on lenguas originarias, the autochthonous languages of the Americas. She lives in Mexico City, where she is studying Náhuatl with the support of an NEA Translation Fellowship and a Global South Translation Fellowship from Cornell University's Institute for Comparative Modernities.

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.

Cate Dicharry

Cate Dicharry (catedicharry.com) serves as program development coordinator for the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Her debut novel, The Fine Art of Fucking Up, was published by Unnamed Press in 2015, and her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Nervous Breakdown, Role/Reboot, and elsewhere.

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.

Kiki Dimoula

Kiki Dimoula is a member of the Academy of Athens. She has been awarded the Greek State Prize twice, the Grand State Prize, the Ouranis Prize, and the Aristeion of Letters (given by the Academy of Athens), as well as the European Prize for Literature. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, Danish, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and many other languages.

Fred Dings

Fred Dings’s books of poetry include Eulogy for a Private Man (TriQuarterly Books), After the Solstice (Orchises Press), and two chapbooks, Vespers and The Bruised Sky. The poems featured here are part of his newly completed third full-length collection, not yet submitted for publication. Dings teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina.

Cem Dinlenmiş

Cem Dinlenmiş is interested in a variety of narrative forms ranging from cartoons and illustrations to graphic journalism and paintings. Since 2006, he has been drawing a satirical series for comic magazines Penguen and Uykusuz in Turkey.

Dan Disney

Dan Disney's latest books are accelerations and inertias (Vagabond Press, 2021) and, together with Matthew Hall, New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry (Palgrave, 2021). He teaches with the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul.