Authors
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Anna Halas
Anna Halas is a playwright, theater translator, and researcher at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine. Her interests are in the fields of theater translation, contemporary Ukrainian drama, ideology, and culture. Her articles also explore different interpretations of identity in literary texts.
Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is a Jordanian Filipina American writer and editor based in London. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, her books include: Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline (2014); Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations (2009); The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design (2008); Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran (2007); Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images (2004); Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance (2002); and Mother of All Pigs, her first novel.
Eduardo Halfon
Neustadt Prize nominee Eduardo Halfon is the author of fifteen books of fiction published in Spanish. Mourning (2018) received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award (US), the International Latino Book Award (US), the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France), and the Premio de las Librerías de Navarra (Spain). In 2018 he was awarded the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, his country’s highest literary honor. His newest book in English, Canción, is forthcoming in September from Bellevue Literary Press. Photo by Ferrante Ferranti
Tom Halford
Tom Halford is a scholar and writer who has taught at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, Chonnam National University in South Korea, and at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. His chapbook Mill Ratis forthcoming from Frog Hollow Press in 2021. He studies crime fiction and representations of writers in Canadian novels.
Photo by Shevaun Williamsdiv>Heather Hall
Heather Hall is the owner of Green Feather Books in Norman, Oklahoma, just a few blocks north of World Literature Today.
Björn Halldórsson
Björn Halldórsson is the senior editor of The Bridge Reviews, a web platform dedicated to English-language reviews of Icelandic literature. His first book, Smáglæpir (Misdemeanors), won the 2016 Icelandic Literature Centre’s Grassroots Grant. His second book, Stol (Route 1), was published in February 2021. He lives in Reykjavík.
Abdelfattah Ben Hammouda
Abdelfattah Ben Hammouda is a Tunisian poet who has published ten books of poetry. Many of his poems have been published in journals and periodicals in Arabic as well as in French and Spanish translations. He lives in Tunis, where he works as a newspaper editor and a consultant for Mayara Editions poetry series.
Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France, and the Arab world. Described by Yusef Kumunyakaa “as one of the most important voices of her generation,” her most recent books include the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award.
Matt A. Hanson
Matt A. Hanson is a journalist and editor in Istanbul. He reviews contemporary Turkish novels for World Literature Today and has written for Artforum, Artnet News, ARTnews, ArtAsiaPacific, Tablet, The Millions, Words Without Borders, and many other outlets on art, literature, history, and politics.
Satomi Hara
Satomi Hara is a Japanese writer from Tokyo. In 2014 she won an honorable mention in the Mita Bungaku Prize for New Writers. In 2016 she received the Noboru Tsujihara Award in the Bungaku Kingyo Prize for New Writers. She has authored the short-story collection Sato-kun, daisuki (2018).
Muhammad Harbi
Muhammad Harbi is an Egyptian poet and journalist. He is the senior editor of the cultural and literary sections of Al-Ahram newspaper, a leading Arab daily based in Cairo. Born in a small village in the northern part of the Nile delta in 1961, Harbi moved to Cairo to study journalism and media. He holds a degree in mass communication from Cairo University. Even though he started composing poetry in high school, Harbi emerged as a major published poet later in life, publishing his first collection of poetry at the age of fifty. His poetry has repeatedly been lauded for its deep and reflective connection to the natural world and geo-aesthetic sensibility. Harbi’s published collections include three Arabic books of poetry, “By the Sand as it Seduces,” “Seventeen Years to Catch a Cloud,” and “Upon a Shadow I Trod,” the last of which is the source for these translations. Harbi’s forthcoming work includes three more books of poetry, “Alone, I Set Off with My Book,” “A Diary of a Retired Demon,” and “A Balcony for Seduction.” In addition, Harbi has written and produced numerous documentaries in collaboration with his wife, Maha Shahbah, a journalist and filmmaker.
Myronn Hardy
Myronn Hardy is the author of five books of poems, most recently Radioactive Starlings, published by Princeton University Press. His stories have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes. He is currently working on his first novel.
Githa Hariharan
Born in Coimbatore, India, Githa Hariharan (githahariharan.com) is the author of novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles, and columns. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night (1992), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in 1993. Her most recent book is a collection of her own essays, Almost Home: Cities and Other Places.
Photo by Karen Kuehndiv>Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. The recipient of multiple awards and honors, most recently she served as executive editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). Her memoir, Poet Warrior, is forthcoming in fall 2021.
Jonathan Harrington
Jonathan Harrington is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Yucatán, Mexico, and has published over twenty books.
Kevin Hart
Australian poet Kevin Hart’s latest verse collection is Barefoot (2017). Other recent collections include Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (2015) and Morning Knowledge (2011). Recent scholarly books include Poetry and Revelation (2017) and Kingdoms of God (2014). He teaches at the University of Virginia.
Nariman Hasanzade
Prominent poet, playwright, and journalist Nariman Hasanzade was born in rural Azerbaijan in 1931. His works address love, Azerbaijani history, folk traditions, the roles of women in society, and the natural world. Author of dozens of poetry collections, in 2005 he received the national lifetime achievement award, “People’s Poet of Azerbaijan.”
Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Shadab Zeest Hashmi, author of Kohl and Chalk and Baker of Tarifa, is the recipient of the San Diego Book Award, the Nazim Hikmet Prize, and multiple Pushcart nominations. She has been published in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, Asymptote, and other journals worldwide. Her work has been translated into Spanish and Urdu.
Tiffany Hawk
The author of the novel Love Me Anyway, Tiffany Hawk has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times , CNN, NPR, and the Rumpus, among others.
Belinda Qian He
Belinda Q. He is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She recently received her PhD in cinema and media studies (CMS) from the University of Washington, Seattle, and worked as a CCS postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. At the intersection of film/media studies, art history, and legal humanities, her research engages the role of global and Asian screen media in structural violence and justice making. She is an incoming assistant professor of East Asian and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and will begin teaching next year.
Photo © Melissa Lukenbaughdiv>Clemonce Heard
Clemonce Heard is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga–Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, selected by Major Jackson. His collection, Tragic City, which investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October 2021.
Photo: Adrianne Mathiowetzdiv>Allison Hedge Coke
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include Streaming, Burn, and Effigies III. Her recent awards include the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship, the First Jade Nurtured SiHui Female International Poetry Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals. A distinguished professor of creative writing at UC Riverside and a former sharecropper, she has worked fields, factories, waters.
Photo: Shane Browndiv>Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include The Year of the Rat; Dog Road Woman; Off-Season City Pipe; Blood Run; Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas; Effigies I & II; Rock, Ghost Willow, Deer; Burn; and Streaming. Awards include an American Book Award, a King-Chavez-Parks Award, an NWCA Lifetime Achievement Award, and a 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. She directs the Literary Sandhill CraneFest in Nebraska and is currently Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and co-author, with Asher Miller, of the report, “Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown.”
