December 19, 2024
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Authors
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LeAnne Howe
LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) is the author of Choctalking on Other Realities (2013), winner of the inaugural 2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; the novels Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story (2007); Shell Shaker (2001), winner of the American Book Award (2002); and the poetry collection Evidence of Red (2005). The excerpts here are from her current manuscript, Savage Conversations. She is the Edison Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Georgia.
Rachel Hubbard
Rachel Hubbard is a senior at the University of Oklahoma pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English literary and cultural analysis. In addition to working with World Literature Today, she works with the OU Daily and Oklahoma Watch. She is also a student and performer at OKC Improv and has two cats, Spice and Griffin.
Antony Huen
Born, raised, and based in Hong Kong, Antony Huen is a writer and academic with interests in ekphrasis and contemporary poetics. His recent works have appeared in The Dark Horse, Hong Kong Review of Books, Poetry Wales, and other places. He is the winner of the 2021 Wasafiri Essay Prize.
Jaime Huenún Villa
Jaime Huenún Villa (b. 1967, Valdivia) is an award-winning Mapuche-Huilliche poet whose latest collection of poetry, Crónicas de la Nueva Esperanza / Chronicles of New Hope, is forthcoming from Lom Ediciones. He has received numerous awards, including the Pablo Neruda Prize (2003), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005), and the Chilean National Council on Arts and Culture’s Best Work of Literature 2013. He has also edited several anthologies of Mapuche and other Latin American Indigenous poetry. He works in the Ministry of the Cultures, Arts and Patrimony of Chile. Photo by Alvaro de la Fuente Farré
Tiffany Huggins
Tiffany Higgins is a poet, translator, and writer on the environment and Brazil. Her writing appears in Granta, Guernica, Poetry, and elsewhere.
Briony Hughes
Briony Hughes (@brihughespoet) is a visiting tutor and doctoral candidate based at Royal Holloway University of London. Her publications include Dorothy (Broken Sleep Books, 2020) and Microsporidial (Sampson Low, 2020). Briony’s limited-edition bookworks have been collected by the National Poetry Library (UK), Senate House Library, Foyle Special Collections: Kings College London, and the BookArtBookshop. Briony is a co-founder of the Crested Tit Collective (2018–2020) and editor at Osmosis Press.
Hui Faye Xiao
Hui Faye Xiao is associate professor and chairperson of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas. Her most recent publications include Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China (2020) and Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (co-edited with Ping Zhu, forthcoming 2021).
Rose Hunter
Rose Hunter’s (rosehunterwriting.com) poetry book, glass, was published by Five Islands Press (Australia) in 2017. Journals she has been published in include Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Southerly, Los Angeles Review, DIAGRAM, and The Bennington Review. From Australia, she lived in Canada for ten years and is currently a digital nomad (in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the moment). She tweets @BentWindowBooks, a chapbook publisher she founded.
Anton Hur
Anton Hur is the translator of Violets, by Kyung-Sook Shin; of the 2022 International Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, by Bora Chung, and of the longlisted Love in the Big City, by Sang Young Park; and contributor to Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (ed. Kavita Bhanot & Jeremy Tiang).
Hwang Tong-gyu
Hwang Tong-gyu was born in 1938 in Sukch’on, South P’yongan province, in what is now North Korea. Author of fourteen poetry collections and five prose books, he has received the Hyondae Award, Midang Award, and Ku Sang Award.
Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon, a prominent contemporary poet from Korea, has published ten collections of poetry. Her poetry in translation includes Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (2008), All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (2011), and Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrowcream (2014).
Photo by Samuel de Romándiv>Anna María Iglesia
Anna María Iglesia (b. 1986, Granada) (@AnnaMIglesia) holds degrees in Italian literature and comparative literature as well as a PhD from the University of Barcelona. She is a cultural journalist who contributes regularly with various media (Librújula, The Objective, El Confidencial, Letra Global, Turia, La esfera de Papel, Altaïr) where she writes primarily about literature and the publishing world. She has translated into Spanish Colette’s Regalos de Invierno and is also the author of La revolución de las flâneuses (Cahiers Wunderkammer, 2019).
Photo by Mati Milsteindiv>Alma Igra
Alma Igra is a historian of food and science in the twentieth century. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2020. Her grandfather was born in Bessarabia, her mother was born in Haifa, she was born in Jerusalem, and her son was born in New York.
Lawson Fusao Inada
Lawson Fusao Inada was born in Fresno, California, and as a child during World War II, he was imprisoned in California, Arkansas, and Colorado. His books of poetry include Before the War, Legends from Camp, and Drawing the Line. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and has served as poet laureate of Oregon.
Elif Ince
Elif Ince is an Istanbul-based freelance journalist. She contributes to the New York Times and Deutsche Welle among other news outlets. She worked as a reporter for the daily Radikal between 2010 and 2014, focusing on Istanbul’s urban transformation.
Photo by Benjamin Amodudiv>Tade Ipadeola
Tade Ipadeola is a Nigerian poet. He is also a lawyer with experience in intellectual property law, litigation, and arbitration. Photo by Benjamin Amodu
Tiffany Isaacs
Tiffany Isaacs is a PhD student at the University of North Texas where she writes fiction and essays. She is an assistant fiction editor at Narrative Magazine and a scholarship recipient at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She has work forthcoming in the Santa Monica Review and River Teeth.
Bunmi Ishola
Bunmi Ishola is a former journalist and middle-school teacher who now works in children’s book publishing. She’s constantly guilty of tsundoku, but that hasn’t stopped her from buying more books. She loves to travel and has been to over twenty countries and every continent except Antarctica. When she’s not reading, buying books, or traveling, she’s probably watching something on Disney+, HGTV, or Food Network. You can find this former WLT intern on Instagram @bunmi_ishola.
Jale Ismayil
Jale Ismayil was born in 1978 and received her graduate degree from the Baku State University School of Journalism. She has worked for several newspapers and is an editor at an advertising agency. She has published two books, one of short stories, Heykalin içindaki (2010; Stories inside a monument) and another of poetry, Birnafasa (2015; In one breath).
Albertine M. Itela
Born in Kinshasa in 1975, Albertine M. Itela spent her childhood between Belgium, Germany, and the ex-Zaire before settling in France. After graduating in political sociology at the Sorbonne, she published several articles for Radio France Outremer before becoming an actress, theater teacher, and dramatist. “Gare du Nord,” published in Kanyar, is her first published short story. She is currently working on a collection of stories about women at the time of the independence of Congo-Zaire.
Photo by Christina Karmalitadiv>Viktor Ivaniv
Viktor Ivaniv was born in 1977 in Novosibirsk. He is the author of three books of prose, Gorod Vinograd (2003; Vinograd city), Vosstanie grez (2009; The uprising of daydreams), and Dnevnik nabliudenii (2011; Diary of observations) as well as a collection of poetry, Stekliannyi chelovek i zele-naia plastinka (2006; The glass man and the green record). His writing was short-listed for the Debut Prize (poetry category) in 2002 and the Andrei Belyi Prize (prose category) in 2009. Ivaniv currently lives and works in Novosibirsk as a librarian at the State Public Scientific Library.
Sangamithra Iyer
Sangamithra Iyer is the founder of the Literary Animal Project. She’s the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her first book, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.
Photo by Billy Rusakkodiv>Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Finnish novelist and short-story writer Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen has twice won the Kuvastaja Fantasy Prize and four times the Atorox Award for Fantasy. The author of The Rabbit Back Literature Society, Jääskeläinen teaches Finnish language and literature at Jyväskylän Lyseo Upper Secondary School.
Inaya Jaber
Inaya Jaber is a Lebanese writer and journalist. She has published six books of poetry. Her 2017 collection of short stories, La ahada yudhi’u fi beirut (Nobody gets lost in Beirut), is her first book of prose. In addition to working as a journalist for over twenty years for As-Safir and Al-Quds Al-Arabi, she is a singer and graduate of the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music. She lives in Beirut.
Photo: Erin Patrice O'Briendiv>Major Jackson
A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton, 2020). His edited volumes of poetry include Renga for Obama and Best American Poetry 2019. He teaches at Vanderbilt University.
Didi Jackson
Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar and the forthcoming collection My Infinity. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.
Ashaki M. Jackson
Ashaki M. Jackson is the author of two chapter-length collections, Language Lesson (Miel, 2016) and Surveillance (Writ Large Press, 2016). Readers may find Dr. Jackson’s poetry and essays in Obsidian, 7x7 LA, CURA, Prairie Schooner, Midnight Breakfast, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Bettering American Poetry, among other publications. She currently serves as executive editor at The Offing literary magazine. She earned her MFA (poetry) from Antioch University Los Angeles and her doctorate (social psychology) from Claremont Graduate University.
