Authors

Roger Robinson

Roger Robinson (www.roger-robinson.com) is emeritus professor of English at Victoria University, New Zealand, and senior writer for Running Times. He set masters records at the Boston and New York marathons. His books include Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Running in Literature, and the recently republished Heroes and Sparrows: A Celebration of Running.

Erin Rodoni

Erin Rodoni is the author of two poetry collections: Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss (NFSPS Press, 2017), winner of the Stevens Award sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Cimarron Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Adroit Journal, among others. In 2017 she won the Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and the Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Linda Rodriguez

Linda Rodriguez’s newest book, Plotting the Character-Driven Novel, is based on her popular workshop. Her Skeet Bannion mystery novels—Every Hidden Fear, Every Broken Trust, and Every Last Secret—and her books of poetry—Skin Hunger and Heart’s Migration—have received critical recognition and awards, such as the St. Martin’s Press / Malice Domestic Best First Novel.

Rob Roensch

Rob Roensch is the author of a short-story collection, The Wildflowers of Baltimore (Salt), and a novel, In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie (Belle Point Press). He is a professor of English and the Clary Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Oklahoma City University.

Kate Rogers

Kate Rogers’s poem “Baba Yaga’s Child” won second place in the 2018 Big Pond Rumors Contest (Canada). Her work was shortlisted for the 2017 Montreal International Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in Algebra of Owls (UK). Her poems have appeared in the Guardian.

Kelly Rogers

Kelly Rogers is a WLT intern studying professional writing and art.

Zack Rogow

Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His poetry collections include Irreverent Litanies as well as The Number Before Infinity and Talking with the Radio. He is currently completing a personal anthology of international poetry. Rogow’s blog, Advice for Writers, has more than two hundred posts. He serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.

Levi Romero

New Mexico Centennial poet laureate Levi Romero is the author of Sagrado: A Photopoetics across the Chicano Homeland, A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works, and In the Gathering of Silence. He is from the Embudo Valley of northern New Mexico. He teaches in the Chicana/o Studies program at the University of New Mexico. 

Diti Ronen

Diti Ronen is an Israeli poet and editor. She has published six full-length collections of poetry as well as numerous essays and articles. Her poetry has been translated and received international and national awards and published in literary magazines and anthologies worldwide, including the November issue of WLT.

Kate Rose

As a professor at CUMT and previously while earning a PhD at Université de Montpellier, France, Kate Rose’s ([email protected]) research interests have included contemporary francophone women novelists’ use of magical realism, comparisons between Chinese and black American writers, trauma in literature, and Indigenous literatures. Most of her articles are accessible on academia.edu; she also publishes fiction and poetry regularly in literary journals.

Siobhan Rosenthal

Siobhan Rosenthal is an internationally award-winning playwright who has published narrative memoir in many outlets including the London Times. She has Irish citizenship and lives in New Zealand.

Alireza Roshan

Alireza Roshan (b. 1977, Tehran) is the author of Becoming You, The Book of Absence, Cage Poetry, The Dot & 19 Other Stories, Fade, Kasreh, Leyli’s Shadow, A Little Book of Love, Moonstone, Soveyda, Underground Stories, and Us. He now lives in Turkey and tweets @AlirezaRoashan (sic).

Hephzibah Roskelly

Chip Rossetti

Chip Rossetti has a doctorate in modern Arabic literature from the University of Pennsylvania. His published translations include Beirut, Beirut, by Sonallah Ibrahim; Metro: A Story of Cairo, by Magdy El Shafee; and Utopia, by Ahmed Khaled Towfik. He is currently editorial director for the Library of Arabic Literature at NYU Press.

Henk Rossouw

Henk Rossouw is from Cape Town, South Africa. His debut, Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize. The African Poetry Book Fund included his chapbook The Water Archives in Tano, the 2018 New-Generation African Poets box set. Poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Massachusetts Review, and Boston Review, among other places.

Rafa Rostami

Rafa Rostami is a bookseller in Tehran.

Henriette Rostrup

Henriette Rostrup is a Danish writer of both adult and children’s fiction. Her novel A Year of Funerals (2015) was longlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016 and chosen as Aller Favorite in 2016. Her graphic novel The Lake was nominated for best debut in the Ping Prize for 2018. Her short story “The Final Chapter” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Jacques Roubaud

Jacques Roubaud (b. 1932) became a member of the oulipo (Workshop of Potential Literature) group in 1966 and was nominated by Marcel Bénabou for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2008. His most recent book to be translated into English is Mathematics: A Novel (2012).

Adam Rovner

Adam Rovner (www.adamrovner.com) is an associate professor of English and Jewish literature at the University of Denver. His articles, essays, translations, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications. His narrative history of the Territorialist movement, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel, was published by NYU Press in 2014.

Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy is the author of two works of nonfiction, How I Became a Tree and Provincials; Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal, a work of literary criticism; Missing: A Novel; My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories; and two collections of poems, Out of Syllabus and VIP: Very Important Plant. She teaches at Ashoka University, Sonipat.

Aaron Rudolph

Aaron Rudolph is an instructor of composition at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. He authored the collection Sacred Things (Bridge Burner’s Publishing, 2002) and has poems in the anthologies Two Southwests (Visual Arts Collective, 2008) and Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010).

Jonathan Ruppin

Jonathan Ruppin (@tintiddle) is the web editor at Foyles Bookshop (www.foyles.co.uk).

Brandon Rushton

Brandon Rushton’s poems appear in Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Bennington Review, CutBank, Sonora Review, and Passages North among other journals. In 2016 he was the winner of both the Gulf Coast Prize and the Ninth Letter Award for Poetry. In 2017 he served as the Theodore Roethke Fellow at the Marshall Fredericks Museum. Born and raised in Michigan, he now lives and writes in Charleston, South Carolina, and teaches writing at the College of Charleston.