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Anna Gual
Anna Gual is one of Catalunya’s most vital poetic voices. Her quests, and the singular ways in which she goes about and records them, draw in poets, readers, and critics alike. Gual’s collections have been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. Unnameable, translated into English by AKaiser, is forthcoming in fall 2025 from Zephyr Press.
Charo Guerra
Cuban writer Charo Guerra (b. María del Rosario Guerra Ayala; Limonar, Matanzas, 1962) is author of the poetry collections Un sitio bajo el cielo (1991;, Vámonos a Icaria (1998), winner of the prestigious New Pines Prize; and Luna de los pobres (2011), awarded the José Jacinto Milanés Prize. She has also written the short-story collection Pasajes de la vida breve (2007).
Victoria Guerrero Peirano
Victoria Guerrero Peirano is a poet, teacher, and feminist activist. Her recent publication Y la muerte no tendrá dominio (2019) won the 2020 National Literature Prize. She is the author of five poetry collections, including a compilation of her poetry, Documentos de Barbarie (poetry 2002–2012) (2013), which won ProART in 2015. She cares about her dog and cat. She survives by teaching at the university.
Leila Guerriero
Leila Guerriero (b. 1967) is a journalist and editor whose work regularly appears in Spanish and Latin American publications (see WLT, Sept. 2022, 27). She has received numerous prizes, including the Gabriel Garcia Márquez Journalism Award, and is the author of over a dozen books, including A Simple Story. Her writing has been translated into multiple languages.
Marame Gueye
Marame Gueye is associate professor of African and African diaspora literatures at East Carolina University. Her work is on verbal art, gender, language, and immigration. Dr. Gueye is also a scholar-activist of women’s rights in Senegal and its American diaspora.
© Nobel Prize Outreach / Photo by Hugh Foxdiv>Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is emeritus professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent. Born in Zanzibar, he is the author of the acclaimed novels Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise, Admiring Silence, By the Sea, Desertion, The Last Gift, and Gravel Heart. His latest book, Afterlives, was published in 2020. He served on the jury of the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, nominating J. M. Coetzee for the award.
José Ángel Gutiérrez
José Angel Gutiérrez (b. 1944) is considered one of the Four Horsemen of the Chicano Movement and founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas–Arlington. The author or co-author of seventeen books, he was most recently honored with the 2018 National Hispanic Hero Award from the US Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago.
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (b. 1986, Caguas) is the author most recently of the novel Los días hábiles (2020) and the book of short stories Preciosos perdedores (2019). He has received the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña’s National Novel Prize in Puerto Rico (2012) as well as the Festival de la Palabra’s Premio Nuevas Voces (2015), a recognition of up-and-coming local writers. In 2017 he was selected by the Hay Festival as part of Bogotá39, a list of the best Latin American writers under the age of forty.
Sean Guynes-Vishniac
Sean Guynes-Vishniac (@guynesvishniac) is a PhD candidate in English at Michigan State University. He is editor of Punking Speculative Fiction (a special issue of Deletion, May 2018); co-editor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (forthcoming) and Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017); editor of The SFRA Review; and book reviews editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.
Photo by José Arturo Ballester Pannelidiv>Sandra Guzmán
A Caribbean-born, Afro Indigenous daughter of Boriké, Sandra Guzmán is an award-winning author, editor, documentary filmmaker, and anthologist whose work explores identity, land, memory, race, coloniality, spirituality, culture, and gender. She is the editor of the landmark anthology Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023), featuring the texts of 140 women from fifty nations who write in more than two dozen languages (see WLT, Nov. 2023, 68). She produced and was the interviewer for The Pieces I Am, the acclaimed documentary film about the art and life of her literary mentor, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Her essays have appeared in Audubon magazine and the anthologies So We Can Know, edited by Aracelis Girmay, and Some of My Best Friends, edited by Emily Bernard. Her work has appeared in CNN, NBC News, and El Diario / La Prensa, among others, and her documentary work has aired on PBS for American Masters, HBO, and Netflix. She won an Emmy for a program on the US Cuba embargo while working as a producer at Telemundo. She is presently associate editor at Studio Gannet.
Photo by Peter Morenusdiv>Serkan Gӧrkemli
Serkan Görkemli is the author of Sweet Tooth and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky) and Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey (SUNY Press), winner of the 2015 Lavender Rhetorics Book Award presented by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Originally from Türkiye, he is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut and lives in New York.
Barbara Haas
Barbara Haas’s recent essays appear in The MacGuffin, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Terrain.org, and the Chariton Review. Her nonfiction is forthcoming from Isthmus, Lake Effect, and Delmarva Review.
Paavo Haavikko
Paavo Haavikko (1931-2008) was a Finnish poet and playwright. He published his first collection of poetry in 1951, at the age of twenty. After three more poetry collections, two three-act plays, and two novels, Haavikko's first English-translated piece was published in 1961. He is the laureate of the 1984 Neustadt Prize.
Hedy Habra
Hedy Habra (HedyHabra.com) is the author of two poetry collections, Tea in Heliopolis (2013), winner of the USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award, and Under Brushstrokes (2015), inspired by visual art. Recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she is also the author of a story collection, Flying Carpets (2013), winner of the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention.
Ken Hada
Ken Hada, professor and poet at East Central University, is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including Come before Winter (2023) and Contour Feathers (2021). His book Visions for the Night was released in April at the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival on the campus of ECU.
Saliha Haddad
Saliha Haddad is an Algerian writer and an editor at Botsotso and Hotazel Review magazine.
Cho Haejin
Cho Haejin has written five novels and three short-story collections. She burst onto the literary scene when she won the Literature Center’s New Writer Award in 2004. Since then, she has received numerous other literary awards, including the Daesan Literary Award (2019), the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award (2016), and the Munkakdongnae Young Writers Award (2014). Her novel I Met Loh Kiwan won the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature in 2013. It was translated into English by Ji-Eun Lee and published by the University of Hawai‘i Press in 2019. This novel was made into a film called My Name Is Loh Kiwan and released on Netflix in 2024. Her novel A Simple Heart, translated by Jamie Chang, will be published in February 2026 by Other Press.
Will Hagle
Will Hagle’s creative nonfiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, Lyrics as Poetry, and World Literature Today. His debut book, Madvillain’s Madvilliany, came out in 2023 via Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series. His forthcoming book, in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Genre Series, is entitled Midwest Emo.
Óscar Hahn / Courtesy of Alchetrondiv>Óscar Hahn
Óscar Hahn is one of Chile’s most important poets today and has been the nation’s poet laureate. For years he taught at the University of Iowa. He is known worldwide as a master of the sonnet form. His books include Poetic Sum (1965), Flower of the Enamored (1987), Profane Appearances (2001), and The Communicating Mirrors (2015), from which these two poems are derived.
Hussain Haidry
Hussain Haidry is a poet, screenwriter, and lyricist. He was head of finance at a healthcare company in Kolkata until he left his job and moved to Mumbai to become a full-time writer. He started his career by performing at spoken-word poetry forums in Mumbai such as Kommune, then went on to write lyrics for films like Gurgaon, Qarib Qarib Single, and Mukkabaaz and web series like Chacha Vidhaayak Hai Humaare, Yeh Meri Family, and Tripling. As a screenwriter, he has co-written the Amazon web series Laakhon Mein Ek (season two) and is presently working on the dialogues of the film Takht.
Photo by Lioz Issacdiv>Gili Haimovich
Gili Haimovich is an internationally published poet and translator who writes in both Hebrew and English. She has six volumes of poetry in Hebrew and a collection of poetry in English, Living on a Blank Page. Her work is featured in numerous journals and translated into several languages.
Golan Haji
Golan Haji is a Syrian Kurdish poet and translator who now lives in Paris. His latest poetry collection, A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know, was published by A Midsummer Night’s Press in 2017. His most recent translation into Arabic is Alberto Manguel’s Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2017)
Photo by Umar Timoldiv>Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a poet and fiction writer from Israel. Her books include the poetry volume Mahar Na’avod (We’ll work tomorrow) (2014), which received the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature, the graphic novel baMayim (In the water) (2016), and the collection of novellas Hevra (Company) (2018). She is the recipient of the 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers and a Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa. Hakimi holds a degree in mechanical engineering.
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
