Authors
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J. R. Patterson
J. R. Patterson was born on a cattle and grain farm in rural Manitoba, Canada. He has worked as a farm laborer, factory worker, and writer. He has written for a variety of international publications, including National Geographic, Literary Review of Canada, and the LARB.
Cecilia Pavón
Cecilia Pavón has lived in Buenos Aires since the 1990s. She is a writer, editor, translator, and cofounder of the art gallery and publishing house Belleza y Felicidad. She is the author of four collections of short fiction and several poetry collections. Four of her books are available in English translation: Little Joy: Selected Stories (2021), A Hotel with My Name (2015), Nine Ways to Cry (2023), and Licorice Candies (2016). In 2020 she founded Microcentro, a space dedicated to poetic experimentation through workshops and readings.
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz (1914-1988) was born and raised in Mixcoac, a present-day part of Mexico City. His family supported Emiliano Zapata, and after his assassination, were forced into exile in the United States. Paz was only nineteen years of age when he published his first collection of poetry, entitled Luna Silvestre (Wild Moon). Throughout his career, Paz founded two literary journals,Barandal (1932) and Taller (1938). In 1945 he began working as a diplomat for the Mexican government, and traveled to such places as Paris, Tokyo, Geneva, and Mumbai. His travels influenced much of his work, and he published many of his books while working abroad.
Edmundo Paz-Soldán
Edmundo Paz-Soldán (b. Bolivia, 1967) is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and editor. His work has won multiple awards, including the Premio Nacional de Novela (Bolivia). He is Professor of Latin American Literature and Chair of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Paz-Soldán nominated Mario Vargas Llosa for the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Photo by Roni Frydmandiv>Sigal Naor Perelman
Sigal Naor Perelman (b. 1968) is a literary scholar and editor, founder and co-director of the Derech Ruach organization for the promotion of the study of the humanities in Israel, and teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Haifa University. She has published two research books on Natan Zach and Noah Stern. Her first volume of poetry, Machluta, was published in 2020.
Jaime Pérez González
Jaime Pérez González is a bilingual Tseltal-Spanish speaker from Mexico and a linguist who writes literature in his spare time. He is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz (2021–23). In 2022 he started an assistant professorship in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara.
Carlina Perna
Carlina Perna is an MFA candidate at UC Riverside, where they are managing editor of the Santa Ana River Review. Carlina is a poet, screenwriter, filmmaker, and educator who holds a BA in Spanish literary studies and religious studies from Occidental College and an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania. Carlina has also completed a Fulbright teaching grant at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil.
Photo: Denise Noonediv>Sasenarine Persaud
Sasenarine Persaud is the author of twelve books of fiction and poetry. He defines his aesthetics as Yogic Realism. His most recent book is Love in a Time of Technology (2014). Persaud’s next book, Monsoon on the Fingers of God, will be published in 2018. He lives in Florida.
Pamela Petro
Pamela Petro is a writer, artist, and educator and the author of four books, including Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh and her memoir The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence: A Memoir. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta, Guernica, Paris Review, and others. She teaches creative writing at Smith College and Lesley University, and is codirector of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales.
Sylvia Petter
Sylvia Petter was born in Vienna, grew up in Australia, and has lived in France and Austria. She started writing fiction in 1993 and has published three story collections: The Past Present, Back Burning, and Mercury Blobs. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of New South Wales. Her debut novel, All the Beautiful Liars, was published by Lightning Books (UK) in 2021. She has currently relocated to Sydney.
A. G. Pettet
A. G. Pettet has published in journals, anthologies, and magazines around the world, including Australia, the UK, US, Canada, and India. His first collection, Melancholy’s Midnight Wandering, was published in 1996, and his second collection, Improvised Dirges: New & Selected Poems, was published in 2015 by Bareknuckle Books. Pettet was co-editor, with Brentley Frazer, of the Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2015, which was included in The Australian newspaper’s Best Books of 2015, and the Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2016. He was the assistant director of the Queensland Poetry Festival from 1997 to 2000 and has presented at a number of other festivals.
Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris
Nicole Peyrafitte and Pierre Joris have been collaborators in life and art for more than a quarter-century now and residents of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, for the last twelve years. They are presently working on Domopoetics-Karstic Action, an installation-performance.
Photo by Julie Thi Underhilldiv>Aimee Phan
Aimee Phan is the author of a novel, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong, and a collection of interlinked stories, We Should Never Meet, which was named a Notable Book by the Kiryama Prize in fiction and a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa and now teaches in the MFA Writing Program and Writing and Literature Program at California College of the Arts.
Angus Phillips
Angus Phillips is a professor and director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing. He is the co-author, with Miha Kovač, of Is This a Book? published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. You can also find them talking about their book in a Cambridge Elements podcast on Spotify.
Geoffrey Philp
Born in Jamaica in 1958, Geoffrey Philp has published one novel, five volumes of poetry, a short-story collection, two children’s books, and a play. His work is represented in nearly every anthology of Caribbean literature, and his blog (www.geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com) is read all over the world. He has lived in Miami since the mid-1970s and has a master’s degree from the University of Miami. A professor at Miami Dade College since 1979, he is now chair of the College Preparatory Department.
Philp won The Caribbean Writer’s first poetry chapbook contest in 1990. Other awards include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Florida Arts Council, an artist-in-residence at the Seaside Institute, the Sauza Stay Pure Award, the Canute Brodhurst Prize (fiction) and the Daily News Prize (poetry) from The Caribbean Writer, two James Michener fellowships from the University of Miami, and the coveted Outstanding Writer Prize from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission.
Writing in the Small Axe literary salon, Jennifer Marshall has remarked on the “cultural smorgasbord of references to historical and contemporary events” found in his writing.” The critic and poet Carrol B. Fleming has compared his poetry to early work by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, noting that Philp’s “poems wander through bedrooms and along the waterfronts of that perceptive land accessible only to poets.”
Photo by Kirsten Lara Getcheldiv>Beth Piatote
Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce writer, scholar, and language activist committed to using creative expression for Indigenous language revitalization. She is the author of The Beadworkers: Stories and an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Photo by Kirsten Lara Getchel
Dustin Pickering
A critic, reviewer, essayist, musician, and visual artist, Dustin Pickering is editor-in-chief of Harbinger Asylum and founder of Transcendent Zero Press.
Photo by Margaret Snead.div>Kerri Pierce
Kerri Pierce has translated fiction and nonfiction from seven languages. Her translation of The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am, by Kjersti A. Skmosvold, was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award.
Irma Pineda
Irma Pineda (Binnizá) is the author of twelve books of bilingual (Spanish-Didxazá) poetry. English-language collections of her poetry, translated by Wendy Call, include In the Belly of Night and Other Poems (2022) and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater (2024).
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky’s recent autobiography is Jersey Breaks. His books of poetry include At the Foundling Hospital, The Want Bone, The Figured Wheel, and his translation The Inferno of Dante. Among his prose works is Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry. He has appeared on The Simpsons.
Carlos Pintado
Carlos Pintado is a Cuban American writer, playwright, and award-winning poet. His book Habitación a oscuras received the prestigious Sant Jordi’s International Prize for Poetry, and his book El azar y los tesoros was one of the finalists for Spain’s Adonais Prize. In 2014 Pintado was awarded the Paz Prize for Poetry for his new book, Nine coins / Nueve monedas, given by the National Poetry Series published by Akashic Books. He is a juror for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Bridget Pitt
Bridget Pitt has published poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and three novels. She has co-authored the memoir of Sicelo Mbatha, a spiritual wilderness guide from Mfolozi, and has written on creating community-centered approaches to nature conservation. Her novel Eye Brother Horn, which explores the social and ecological impacts of colonialism in South Africa, will be published by Catalyst Press early in 2023.
Kevin M. F. Platt
Kevin M. F. Platt is a professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on Russian poetry, history, and memory in Russia and eastern Europe, global russophone culture, and translates contemporary Russian poetry. He is the editor of Global Russian Cultures (Wisconsin, 2019). His new book, Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press / Northern Illinois University Press in 2023.
Kevin M. F. Platt
Kevin M. F. Platt is chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on Russian poetry, representations of Russian history, Russian historiography, and history and memory in Russia. His most recent book is Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths (Cornell University Press, 2011). He also edited and contributed translations to Modernist Archaist: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam (Whale and Star, 2008).
Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza
Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza (b. 1962, Caracas) is a poet and essayist. He has published various books of poetry and literary scholarship, and he received the Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in 1999. Cuidados intensivos (2014) is his latest verse collection.
Marianna Pogosyan
Born in Armenia and raised in Japan, Marianna Pogosyan has spent her life on different continents and in different languages. Her fiction explores the human psyche under the weight of multiple cultures and its resulting aftermath on one of the most basic of our desires: belonging. Currently, Marianna lives in the Netherlands where she consults international executives and their families in all matters of psychological adaptation to a life far from home. She is the author of Psychology Today’s “Between Cultures” blog.
