Authors
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Joanna Pollakówna
Joanna Pollakówna (1939–2002) was a Polish poet, essayist, art historian, and children’s book author. She published twelve volumes of poetry and eight books about painting. She specialized in twentieth-century Polish painters and Italian Renaissance masters, and was particularly interested in the literary output of painters. Several of her poetic volumes were awarded prestigious prizes.
Jason S. Polley
Jason S. Polley teaches comics, literary journalism, experimental criticism, and Indian English fiction at Hong Kong Baptist University. His publications include the books refrain and cemetery miss you.
Karl Pollin-Dubois
Karl Pollin-Dubois teaches French and comparative literature at the University of Tulsa. The author of Alfred Jarry: L’Expérimentation du singulier (2014), his research focuses mainly on the notions of affect and trance as they are depicted both in literature and cinema.
Photo © Antonio Cruzdiv>Felipe Restrepo Pombo
Felipe Restrepo Pombo (b. 1978, Bogotá) is a journalist, editor, and author. In 2017 he was included in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under forty, organized by the Hay Festival every decade. He is the author of the novel The Art of Vanishing; three collections of journalistic profiles; and a biography of the painter Francis Bacon. His work has been translated into English, French, and German. He is the editor behind the books The Sorrows of Mexico and Crónica: The Best Narrative Journalism in Latin America. He was the Latin American editor of Esquire and the editor in chief of Gatopardo magazine in Mexico City. He teaches narrative journalism at several universities throughout the continent. He is a columnist at El País and the Washington Post.
Francis Ponge
Francis Ponge (1899-1988) is a French essayist and poet. He was born in Montpellier and studied at the world-renowned Sorbonne. His first poems were published as early as 1923, and it would be through these publications that he introduced his distinct poetic style. His style of prose poetry (he often refered to this style as proêms) features meticulous descriptions of natural, everyday objects in lyric prose form. He is the laureate of the 1974 Neustadt Prize.
Elena Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska is the 2014 recipient of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. One of Mexico’s leading journalists and authors, and a nominee for the 2012 Neustadt Prize, Poniatowska’s work focuses on the disenfranchised.
Jacquelyn Pope
Jacquelyn Pope’s first collection of poems, Watermark, was published by Marsh Hawk Press; Hungerpots, her translation of the Dutch poet Hester Knibbe, was published by Eyewear. She is the recipient of a 2015 NEA Translation Fellowship and a 2012 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. She recently translated four poems by Elisabeth Eybers and three by Hendrik Marsman for WLT.
Photo by Devraya Potdardiv>Ashutosh Potdar
Ashutosh Potdar is an Indian playwright, poet, short-story writer, and scholar writing in Marathi and English. He is associate professor of drama and literature at FLAME University, Pune.
Jason Poudrier
Jason Poudrier is an Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He has authored two poetry collections, Red Fields (Mongrel Empire Press, 2012) and a chapbook, In the Rubble at Our Feet (Rose Rock Press, 2011). In 2013 Red Fields was awarded the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal, short-listed for the Hoffer Grand Prize, and awarded an honorable mention in the poetry category. Poudrier has been selected twice to participate in the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library’s Healing Through the Humanities event.
Susan Power
Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux. She’s the author of The Grass Dancer (PEN/Hemingway prizewinner), Roofwalker, and Sacred Wilderness. Her most recent fellowships include a Loft McKnight Fellowship for 2015–16 and a Native Arts & Cultures Fellowship for 2016–17.
J. L. Powers
J. L. Powers is the award-winning author of nine books for children and young adults. She is founder and publisher at Catalyst Press, an independent publisher that publishes emerging and established African writers and African-based books for all ages. She lives in El Paso, Texas, with her son and three-legged miniature Australian cattle dog and is currently working on a novel set in the small west Texas town of Alpine. She can be found at www.jlpowers.net or www.catalystpress.org.
Nicholas Pritchard
Nicholas Pritchard is a writer living in London. His articles can be found at Caña, Jewish Renaissance, WLT, and elsewhere.
Rain Prud’homme-Cranford
Rain Prud’homme-Cranford (Goméz) is a “FAT-tastic IndigeNerd” who won the First Book Award Poetry from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (MEP 2012). She is an assistant professor of Indigenous literature in the Department of English and affiliated faculty in the International Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Calgary.
Vladimir Pryakhin
Vladimir (Vlad) Pryakhin was born in 1957 in Tula, Russia. In the 1980s he published The Idealist, a samizdat journal of poetry and prose. Since 1992, his poems and short articles have appeared in literary magazines in Russia as well as in other countries. He is the author of ten books of poetry. In 2012 he became the editor and publisher of The Environment, an international literary almanac. Since 2017, he has been the editor of www.medium.land, a portal dedicated to poetry and art. The winner of several literary awards, he participates in free-verse festivals in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Photo by Kevin Plattdiv>Artur Punte
Artur Punte is a member of Orbita, a creative collective of Russian poets and artists. He is a media artist and also works as an advertising writer in Riga, Latvia. A graduate of the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, he is the author of two books of poetry in Russian and has published in the journals Daugava, Vavilon, Orbita, and others.
Alejandro Puyana
Alejandro Puyana’s own debut novel, Freedom Is a Feast (Little, Brown), is set in Chávez-era Venezuela and owes a debt to all these books. His work has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and American Scholar, among others, and his story “The Hands of Dirty Children” was selected by Curtis Sittenfeld for Best American Short Stories 2020. A native of Venezuela, he lives with his wife and daughter in Austin, Texas.
Omar Qaqish
Omar Qaqish is a teaching fellow in English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, and a doctoral candidate at McGill University. He teaches and researches literature by Arab authors writing in English, Arabic, and French (and sometimes Italian).
Gao Qiongxian
Gao Qiongxian (b. 1986) is an ethnic minority poet of Derung (Dulong) nationality from the remote Yunnan region of southwest China. After obtaining a BA and MBA from the Central Ethnic University in Beijing, she returned to Yunnan in 2015 and became the deputy director of the Gongshan County Writers’ Union in 2020. Her first book of poems is forthcoming in 2024.
Michelle Quay
Michelle Quay is currently visiting lecturer of Persian at Brown University. She holds a PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and her translation work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Two Lines, Asymptote, and eXchanges, among others.
Photo by Jonat De La Rosadiv>José Rabelo
José Rabelo (b. 1963) is a Puerto Rican writer and dermatologist. Some of his books include La casa de los animales extraños (2020), Los mundos de Lonstal (2020), Club de calamidades (El Barco de Vapor Award, 2013), PAM (2013), and 2063 y otras distopías (2018).
István D. Rácz
István D. Rácz is a professor of English in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He has published books and studies on post-1945 British poetry, translation studies, and Romantic poetry.
Photo: Ana Kašćelandiv>Milovan Radojević
Milovan Radojević has been an editor and screenwriter for art and culture programs on Montenegrin television since 1988, and he is associated with the Montenegrin National Theater. His publications include the novel Dominik (2001) and a short-story collection, Rains . . . White Dogs (Kiše . . . bijeli psi, 2013). Radojević is a member of the Montenegrin PEN Center.
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu was born in Romania and left the country at the height of the Communist regime. Writing poetry in three languages, she has published numerous books in the United States, France, Belgium, and Romania. Radulescu’s French books have received several awards, including the Grand Prix de Poésie Noël-Henri Villard and the Prix Amélie Murat.
