Authors
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Raja Rao
Raja Rao (1908-2006) was born in Hassan, in what is now Narnataka in South India. Though his father taught Kannada at the college where he worked, Rao studied in France for his post-graduate studies and most of his publications were written in the English language. His first stories began appearing in various magazines and journals in 1933, and he published his first book in 1938. Upon his return to India in 1939, Rao became involved in the nationalist movement emerging there. From 1966-1983, he relocated back to the United States and taught Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Photo © Anne Staveleydiv>Emily Rapp Black
Emily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times best-seller. She is an associate professor of creative writing at UC–Riverside.
Feroz Rather
Feroz Rather holds a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. His work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Common, Kenyon Review, the Ploughshares Blog, The Millions, Rumpus, and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Night of Broken Glass, published by HarperCollins in South Asia, was nominated for the First Book Award by the Ninth Mumbai International Literary Festival.
Oliver Raw
Oliver Raw is a British travel writer moonlighting as a printmaker. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, he has spent the last two decades overseas and now calls Europe and Asia home.
Photo © Doug Wolfdiv>Nichole L. Reber
Nichole L. Reber is a nonfiction writer. Her writing about art, architecture, expatriotism, and cultural politics has earned awards by Travelers’ Tales and the Antioch Writers’ Workshop (Midwest). In India she was mugged, nearly kidnapped, and stranded on Thanksgiving Day; still, the Indiaphile hopes to return again and again. Nichole recently authored an essay on her “year of colorful reading” on the WLT blog.
Remi Recchia
Remi Recchia is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a PhD student in English/creative writing at Oklahoma State University and currently serves as an associate editor for the Cimarron Review. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Recchia’s work has appeared or will soon appear in Best New Poets 2021, Harpur Palate, and Juked, among others. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University and is the author of Quicksand / Stargazing (2021).
Olivia Reginaldo
Olivia Reginaldo (Huancavelica, Perú) is an editor and contributing writer for the Atuqpa Chupan Quechua-language literary magazine. Reginaldo’s Quechua-language poetry has been featured in various literary and academic publications in Latin America, the US, and Europe. She is currently completing postgraduate studies in “plurilingualism and interculturality” at the University of Strasbourg, France.
Christa Reinig
Christa Reinig was born in Germany and began her career in East Berlin, although she published in West Berlin. Reinig wrote fiction, nonfiction, short stories, and poetry, her work often marked by humor and black irony as well as her lesbian identity. After winning the Bremen Literature Prize in 1964, Reinig settled in Munich, where she lived until her death in 2008.
Ernesto Reséndiz Oikión
Ernesto Reséndiz Oikión holds a degree in Hispanic languages and literatures from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His essays on Mexico’s gay and queer literary legacy have appeared in a variety of venues, including the books La memoria y el deseo: Estudios gay y queer en México and Juan Gabriel: Lo que se ve no se pregunta. His article “César Moro, flor de invernadero” is included in the Obra poética completa de César Moro (Colección Archivos).
No‘u Revilla
No’u Revilla (she/her/ʻo ia) is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator. Her debut book, Ask the Brindled (Milkweed, 2022), won the 2021 National Poetry Series. She also won the 2021 Omnidawn Broadside Poetry Prize. Her work has been adapted for theatrical productions in Aotearoa as well as art exhibitions for the Honolulu Museum of Art and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Photo: Peter Dresseldiv>Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes (barbarajanereyes.com) is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights, 2017) and four previous collections of poetry, including Poeta en San Francisco (TinFish) and Diwata (BOA Editions). Letters to a Young Brown Girl is forthcoming from BOA in 2020.
Photo courtesy of the authordiv>Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair at Arizona State University. She’s written six adult novels, Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane; a memoir; two writing guides; as well as seven youth books, including the New York Times best-seller Ghost Boys; Black Brother, Black Brother; Towers Falling; Ninth Ward; Sugar; Bayou Magic; and the forthcoming Paradise on Fire.
Jake Ricafrente
Jake Ricafrente’s poetry has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere.
Photo: Anne Richterdiv>Anne Richter
Anne Richter (b. 1939) is a prominent Belgian author, editor, and scholar of the fantastic. Her first collection, Le fourmi a fait le coup, was written at the age of fifteen and translated as The Blue Dog by Alice B. Toklas. She is known for her twice-reprinted international anthology of female fantastical writers, whose introductory essay she expanded into a study of the genre. Her four collections have won her such Belgian honors as the Prix Franz De Wever, the Prix Félix Denayer, the Prix du Parlement, and the Prix Robert Duterme.
Tim Riley
NPR critic Tim Riley has written books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Madonna, and the history of rock gender. He publishes the riley rock report, an audio newsletter, where big ideas go to make the world smaller. He teaches digital journalism at Emerson College.
Marcelo Rioseco
Marcelo Rioseco is an associate professor of Spanish and editor in chief of Latin American Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Over the course of his literary career, he has published the poetry books Espejo de enemigos (2010), 2323 Stratford Ave. (2012), La vida doméstica (2016), and Olivia en los suburbios (2020). His book Ludovicos o la aristocracia del universo (1995) won the “Revista de Libros” Poetry Prize, awarded by the newspaper El Mercurio in Santiago de Chile, and La vida doméstica received the “Premio Academia” awarded by the Academia Chilena de la Lengua. His recent books include Midori & 18-O (Cuarto Propio, 2024), Poesía Selecta (La Castalia, 2024), and Ceremonia de despedida (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2025).
José Luis Rivas
José Luis Rivas (b. 1950, Tuxpan, Veracruz) was elected to the Mexican Academy of Language in 2013. A prolifically published poet, translator, and essayist, he has been awarded many national literary prizes for his books of poetry and for his translations of major poets from Europe, the US, and the Caribbean. The poem above is taken from Por mor del mar (2002).
Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera is the author of the young-adult novels The Education of Margot Sanchez and Dealing in Dreams (both by Simon & Schuster), and the middle-grade novel Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit (Little Brown Books for Young Readers). She lives in Los Angeles.
Cristina Rivera Garza
Author, translator, and critic Cristina Rivera Garza’s recent novels include The Taiga Syndrome (trans. Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana, 2018), The Iliac Crest (trans. Sarah Booker, 2017), and Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué (2016). She is distinguished professor and founder of the PhD in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Jehan L. Roberson
Jehan L. Roberson is a writer, educator, and artist using text as the basis of her interdisciplinary practice. She is a PhD student at Cornell University in English literature, where she explores transnational Black literary production. She holds an MA from New York University in humanities and social thought and has worked previously as the collections specialist for the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a video archive of performance practices in the Americas. Her work appears in Apogee, Public Books, Women & Performance, VICE, and Autostraddle, among others.
