Authors
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Dorianne Laux
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems is available from W. W. Norton, as are her award-winning books Facts about the Moon and The Book of Men. A textbook, Finger Exercises for Poets, is forthcoming as well as a new book of poems, Life on Earth. She is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program.
Photo by Daniel Galeanadiv>Mónica Lavín
Mónica Lavín (b. 1955, Mexico City) is the author of over thirty novels, short fiction, and essay collections. She is winner of the Gilberto Owen Premio Nacional de Literatura; Premio Narrativa de Colima; and the Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska and was a finalist for the Vargas Llosa Novel Award. She is also a biographical screenwriter and journalist who has written many science and food essays. Her latest novel is Últimos días de mis padres (2022).
Photo by João Pinadiv>Carlos Lechuga
Director, screenwriter, and producer Carlos Lechuga is best known for the film Santa y Andrés. After being banned from the Havana Film Festival, the film eventually premiered at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. It has since appeared at more than seventy festivals, garnering numerous awards. He is co-founder, along with Claudia Calviño, of the independent production company Cachita Films. His novel En brazos de la mujer casada was published recently by Editorial Hypermedia. He lives in Havana.
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee’s previous verse collections include Rose (1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award;The City in Which I Love You (1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Book of My Nights (2001). He is also the author of a memoir, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee, forthcoming from BOA Editions in fall 2006. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. As a juror for the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, he nominated poet Gerald Stern for the award. Born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents, Lee fled Indonesia with his family in 1959 after his father spent a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno’s jails. Between 1959 and 1964 the Lee family traveled throughout Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan before settling in the United States. Lee currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Donna, and their two children.
Jason Eng Hun Lee
Jason Eng Hun Lee is a lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University. His poetry collection, Beds in the East, is forthcoming.
Krys Lee
Krys Lee is the author of the story collection Drifting House and the novel How I Became a North Korean and the translator of I Hear Your Voice and Diary of a Murderer, by Young-ha Kim. She has won the Rome Prize in Literature, the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association. Lee teaches creative writing at Underwood International College in Seoul.
Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffithsdiv>Joseph O. Legaspi
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the poetry collections Threshold and Imago (CavanKerry Press) and the chapbooks Postcards (Ghost Bird Press), Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts), and Subways (Thrush Press). He co-founded Kundiman and guest-edited the Philippine-American lit section in the March 2018 issue of WLT.
Laura Legge
Laura Legge lives in Toronto. She is the winner of the 2016 PEN International New Voices Award. Her writing has most recently appeared in Hazlitt, Mid-American Review, North American Review, and The Capilano Review. She just completed her first novel.
Robert Lemon
Robert Lemon earned his BA at the University of Oxford and his MA and PhD at Harvard. He joined the OU faculty in 2005. His research focuses on turn-of the-century Austrian literature and culture, and his current project addresses anthropological themes in the works of Franz Kafka.
Wesley Y. Leonard
Wesley Y. Leonard is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Supported by a PhD in linguistics and experience in Native American language reclamation efforts, he builds capacity for Native American communities engaged in language continuance.
Arthur Leung
Arthur Leung holds an MFA in creative writing (with distinction) from the University of Hong Kong. A winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition, his poems have been published in print magazines, anthologies, and online journals.
Alan Levenson
Alan Levenson holds the Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma, where he directs the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, and has written extensively on the Jewish experience for both scholarly and popular audiences. His latest book is Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian (University of Alabama Press, 2022).
Michele Levy
Professor emerita at North Carolina A & T State University, Michele Levy has published on major Russian and European writers and, since 2000, on postcolonial and postimperial issues in Balkan culture.
Li Juan
Li Juan is a prolific Chinese essayist born in Xinjiang in 1979 and raised in Sichuan. She has published more than ten books of essays including the award-winning book Winter Pasture. The majority of her works reflect the Kazak nomad world of Altay in northern Xinjiang. She now lives in Urumqi, Xinjiang.
Dian Li
Dian Li teaches modern Chinese literature at Sichuan University and the University of Arizona. He is the author of a book-length study on Bei Dao and many articles and essays on Chinese poetry and cinema.
Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn (1929–1988) was a Chilean playwright, novelist, poet, and actor well known in Latin America. English translations of Lihn’s poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies as well as in the collections The Dark Room and Other Poems, translated by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner, and David Unger, and in Figures of Speech, translated by David Oliphant. An article about his meeting with novelist Roberto Bolaño appeared in the New Yorker in December 2008.
Conceição Lima
Conceição Lima is a Santomean poet from the town of Santana in São Tomé. She studied journalism in Portugal and has worked in radio, television, and in the print press in her native country. She has published three books of poetry: O Útero da Casa, A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó, and O País de Akendenguê.
Lin Yi-Han
Lin Yi-Han 林奕含 (1991–2017) was a Taiwanese writer. Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (Guerrilla, 2017) was her first and only book, as she passed away in 2017. Her novel became a symbolic feminist title across Asia and won the Open Book Best Fiction Award, the Liang Yu-Sen Literary Award, and other prizes. Her prose was published in INK magazine and BuzzFeed.
Photo of John Ajvide Lindqvist / Amazon.comdiv>John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist is the author of the international best-selling horror novel Let the Right One In, which has been adapted to film in Sweden and the US. In addition to writing other novels, he has written for film and theater. His most recent novel available in English is The Kindness, translated by Marlaine Delargy.
