Authors
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Photo by Avinash Pasrichadiv>Sonnet Mondal
Sonnet Mondal is an Indian poet and editor in chief of the Enchanting Verses Literary Review. Winner of the 2016 Gayatri Gamarsh Memorial award for literary excellence, Sonnet was one of the featured authors of the Silk Routes project of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, from 2014 to 2016. Mondal has read at the Struga Poetry Evenings (Macedonia, 2014), Uskudar International Poetry Festival (Istanbul, 2015), International Poetry Festival of Granada (Nicaragua, 2016), Ars Poetica Festival (Slovakia, 2016), and Cork International Poetry Festival (Ireland, 2017). His recent works have appeared in the Irish Examiner, Palestine Chronicle, Times of Israel, Indian Literature, and Asia Literary Review.
Photo by Isak Hoffmeyerdiv>Iben Mondrup
Born in Greenland, Iben Mondrup won the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s DR Best Novel Award in 2015 for Godhavn. She holds a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work includes critiques of the misogyny and power struggles within the art world.
Emiliano Monge
Emiliano Monge (b. 1978, Mexico) has published two books of short stories and three novels. In 2011 he was recognized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair as one of the twenty-five most important writers in Latin America, and in 2017 he was selected as one of the thirty-nine best Latin American writers under thirty-nine by the Hay Festival in Bogotá. He is a regular contributor to El País and lives in Mexico City.
Juana Peñate Montejo
Juana Peñate Montejo is a Ch’ol poet and writer from Tumbalá, Chiapas, Mexico. She has authored several books of poetry in Ch’ol with self-translations in Spanish, including Ipusik’al Matye’lum / Corazón de la Selva (Pluralia) and, most recently, Isoñil Ja’al / Danza de la Lluvia, which won the 2020 Premio de Literaturas Indígenas de América.
Photo by Katie Kingdiv>Luis García Montero
Luis García Montero (b. 1958, luisgarciamontero.com) is an acclaimed Spanish poet, novelist, and essayist. He helped found the poetic movement called “Poetry of Experience,” in which everyday activities illuminate the hopes and fears that mark the post-Franco era. “Room 219” appears in Habitaciones separadas (Separate rooms), which won Spain’s National Poetry Prize in 1995.
Kamilah Aisha Moon
The author of Starshine & Clay (2017), a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist featured on NPR’s All Things Considered as a collection that captures America in poetry, and She Has a Name (2013), a finalist for both the Audre Lorde and Lambda Literary Awards, Kamilah Aisha Moon’s work was published widely, including in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize winner who received fellowships to MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Hedgebrook, and Cave Canem, she held an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and was an assistant professor of creative writing at Agnes Scott College.
Sarah Moore
Sarah Moore is a publisher and journalist who writes about international literature. Her reviews and interviews have appeared in Literary Hub, the Brixton Review of Books, and Words Without Borders, among others. She is based in Paris.
Photo by Rafael Trindadediv>María Elena Morán
María Elena Morán (b. 1985, Maracaibo) is a Venezuelan writer and screenwriter based in Brazil. She has a degree in journalism from the Universidad del Zulia, studied screenwriting at the EICTV in Cuba, and holds a PhD in creative writing from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. She is the author of the novel Los Continentes del Adentro, and her second novel, Volver a cuándo, will be published in English by Knopf in 2026.
Fabio Morábito
Fabio Morábito lives in Mexico City and teaches at the Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a celebrated translator from the Italian and the author of more than fifteen books: poetry, short stories, novels, and essay collections, including El idioma materno (The mother tongue), from which this sample is drawn.
Photo © Leandro Müllerdiv>Fernando Morais
Fernando Morais is one of Brazil’s most important contemporary writers and journalists. He has received the Esso Award three times and the April Award for journalism on four occasions. Morais’s works have sold more than two million copies in more than nineteen countries.
Miguel M. Morales
Miguel M. Morales grew up working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of the VONA Voices and Macondo Writers Workshops. He is co-editor of Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando and the forthcoming Fat & Queer anthology.
Nancy Morejón
Nancy Morejón (b. 1944, Havana) is a beloved elder poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. The first Afro-Cuban allowed to seek a degree in Cuba, she quickly rose to national prominence as Poet Laureate, president of the Writers’ Union, member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua, and senior adviser for Casa de las Américas and Teatro Nacional de Cuba.
Photo by Kenzie Allendiv>Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is a Montreal-based American poet. Her honors include a Hopwood Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil. Her work has appeared in Narrative, BOMB, Guernica, and Best New Poets. She holds an MFA in poetry and literary translation from Columbia University.
Mihaela Moscaliuc
Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. Her poetry collections include Cemetery Ink (2021) and a collection in Spanish titled Algunos poemas fugitivos (2023), translated by Frances Simán. In addition to two book-length translations, she edited Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (2016) and co-edited Border Lines (2020). She directs the MA program in English at Monmouth University, New Jersey, where she teaches creative writing and literature and is translation editor for Plume.
Photo by Jen Blairdiv>Lydie Moudileno
Lydie Moudileno is professor of French, francophone studies, and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications and research focus on issues of authorship in postcolonial literary contexts.
Malika Moustadraf
Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) was a preeminent arabophone writer from Casablanca, Morocco. She died at just thirty-seven, leaving behind a semi-autobiographical novel and a collection of short stories. An exacting social critic, Moustadraf was admired for her distinctive and experimental style.
Joel Mowdy
Joel Mowdy is a writer and educator from New York living in Lithuania. He is the author of the story collection Floyd Harbor, published by Catapult.
Damjana Mraović-O’Hare
Damjana Mraović-O’Hare is an associate professor at Carson-Newman University, where she teaches contemporary American fiction and literary theory. She has published mostly about literature, but being just a mere observer—not a fan—in her high-intensity-sports-loving household, she has become fascinated by the complexity of sports.
Dipika Mukherjee
Dipika Mukherjee is the author of the novels Shambala Junction and Ode to Broken Things and the story collection Rules of Desire. Her work is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and appears in World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Newsweek, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hemispheres, Orion, Scroll, The Edge, and more. Her third poetry book, Dialect of Distant Harbors, was published by CavanKerry Press in October 2022, and a collection of travel essays, Writers Postcards, has been accepted for publication by Penguin Random House (SEA) for 2023. She teaches at StoryStudio Chicago and the Graham School at University of Chicago. She holds a PhD in English (sociolinguistics) from Texas A&M University.
Nick Mulgrew
Nick Mulgrew was born in Durban, South Africa, in 1990 to British parents. He is the founder of the poetry publisher uHlanga, is the deputy chairman of Short Story Day Africa, and a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of two books, the latest a suite of short fiction, Stations (David Philip, 2016). He currently lives in Cape Town.
Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray is the author of six works of fiction, including the recent novel Valiant Gentlemen and the short-story collection The Caprices, which won the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim Foundation, and Radcliffe Institute. She teaches writing at UMass Amherst.
Ruby Hansen Murray
Ruby Hansen Murray (enrolled Osage) is a writer and photographer living in the lower Columbia River estuary. Her work appears in Yellow Medicine Review, Apogee, About Place Journal, and Indian Country Today. She is a Hedgebrook and VONA fellow who studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts and Warren Wilson College.
Kristine Ong Muslim
Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry, most recently the short-story collections Age of Blight (2016) and Butterfly Dream (2016) as well as the poetry collections Meditations of a Beast (2016) and Black Arcadia (2017). Her stories have appeared in Confrontation, Weird Fiction Review, Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation (2017), The State, and elsewhere.
