Authors
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Adeeba Shahid Talukder
Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018), and her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets fellowship from Poets House.
Fatemeh Shams
Fatemeh Shams’s third collection, When They Broke Down the Door, translated by Dick Davis, received the 2016 Latifeh Yarshater Award. She was recognized as one of the leading voices of exile when she won the Jaleh Esfahani poetry prize for the best young Iranian poet in 2012.
S. Shankar
S. Shankar is a novelist, scholar, and translator. His third novel, Ghost in the Tamarind, set against the background of the anticaste movement in South India during the twentieth century, was published in 2017. The award-winning critical book Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular was published in 2012. Shankar is the editor of Caste and Life Narratives (2017). He teaches English at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa and blogs at his website, sshankar.net.
Shahilla Shariff
Shahilla Shariff’s first poetry collection, Life Lines, was published in 2012 by Proverse Hong Kong. Her work has been featured in various anthologies and journals (see WLT, January 2017, 38). Born in Kenya, she is Canadian and lives in Hong Kong.
Konstantin Shavlovsky
Konstantin Shavlovsky is a poet, cinema critic, publisher, curator, and the founder/executive manager of the Saint Petersburg bookstore Word Order. He has worked as an editor for Seance magazine, published extensively on Russian cinema, and curated multiple interdisciplinary cinema projects. He is the author of two books of poetry and resides in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Ksenia Shcherbino
Ksenia Shcherbino's poetry and prose have been published in the journalsBabylon, Znamia, Novyi mir, Vozdukh, and other venues. She studied translation at the Moscow State Linguistic University and received her MA from the Institute of European Policy in Paris. She is currently completing an MA in Victorian studies at Westminster University, London. Shcherbino has translated several books on cultural studies and is also a visual artist who has had several solo exhibitions in Paris and Moscow.
Daria Shchukina
Daria Shchukina, an international student from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, is a senior at the University of Oklahoma majoring in English with a concentration in literature and translation studies. Her current research explores place-based markers in Russian texts and the concept of place-based writing in translation. After graduation, she hopes to pursue graduate studies, specializing in comparative literature and translation.
Renee H. Shea
Renee H. Shea, formerly professor of English at Bowie State University in Maryland, interviews contemporary authors for World Literature Today. She frequently contributes to Poets & Writers, most recently “Hope and Terror,” a profile of Julia Phillips (July/August 2024), and “Alone Together,” a profile of Edwidge Danticat (September/October 2024). She is currently doing a series for the American Book Review on “The Laureates.” The initial interview with J. Drew Lanham, poet laureate of Edgefield County, South Carolina, appeared in the fall 2023 issue. She also coauthors English language arts textbooks for Bedford, Freeman & Worth.
Peter Sheehy
Peter Sheehy is a publishing industry misfit, a New York local and San Francisco expat who waves to cats across streets. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Catamaran Literary Reader, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in the Florida Review.
Deema K. Shehabi
Deema K. Shehabi is a poet and editor. Her first book, Thirteen Departures from the Moon, was published by Press 53. She’s also co-author, with Marilyn Hacker, of Diaspo/Renga, a book-length poem that involves a call and response in the tradition of Japanese renga. Deema’s poems have been widely published in literary journals, and she’s also co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received NCBR’s recognition award (see WLT, May 2012). She is also the winner of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize (2018), recipient of a Best of the Net nomination (2021), as well as several Pushcart prize nominations. Her work has been translated into Arabic, French, and Farsi. Deema is Palestinian, born and raised in Kuwait.
Sherry Shenoda
Sherry Shenoda is a Coptic American poet and pediatrician, born in Cairo, living in California. Her work is at the intersection of human rights and child health. Her first novel, The Lightkeeper, was published in May 2021.
Photo: Joe Mazzadiv>Matthew Shenoda
Matthew Shenoda is the author and editor of several poetry collections and a founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is currently associate provost for social equity and inclusion as well as professor of literary arts at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
Victor Shepelev
Victor Shepelev is a software architect and writer from Kharkiv. He organized international online poetry festivals even before Covid.
Photo: Courtesy of the Poetry Foundationdiv>Frank Sherlock
Frank Sherlock approaches the work of poet as conduit and the writing process as collaborations of encounter. He is a founder of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension), which enacts roving guerrilla readings/performances in public spaces. Poems beyond the page have found their forms in installations/performances/exhibitions, including Refuse/Reuse: Language for the Common Landfill, Kensington Riots Project, Neighbor Ballads, and B. Franklin Basement Tapes. He is the author of Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated (Ixnay Press, 2014), The City Real & Imagined (w/ CA Conrad), Over Here (2009), and Ready-to-Eat Individual (w/ Brett Evans, 2008). He is a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature and the second Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.
Mahtem Shiferraw
Mahtem Shiferraw won the 2015 Sillerman Prize for African Poets. Her collections Fuchsia and Your Body Is War were published by the University of Nebraska Press (see WLT, Nov. 2016, 87, and WLT, Summer 2019, 80). She is the founder of Anaphora Literary Arts, a nonprofit organization that advocates for writers and artists of color. Her new collection, Nomenclatures of Invisibility, is forthcoming from BOA Editions (2023).
Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl
Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl was born in Tehran in 1981. She received her doctorate in linguistics and Persian literature. She writes fiction in addition to being a practicing translator into Persian herself. Her short-story collection This May Be the Only Way (2015) and her novel Mana (2017) have been published in Iran. “Anahita” appears in This May Be the Only Way.
Mikhail Shishkin
Mikhail Shishkin is a prominent author of fiction and essays. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Russian Booker, the National Bestseller Prize, the Big Book Prize, and, most recently, the Italian Strega Prize. He is a long-standing and outspoken critic of the Putin regime whose essays have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde, and elsewhere. Since 1995, he has lived and worked in Switzerland.
David Shook
Poet David Shook’s most recent book-length translations include Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Room in Rome, a finalist for the PEN Award and National Translation Award. Their forthcoming books include a new translation of Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon and a collection of Spanish-language poetry, Atlas estelar.
Heather J. Shotton
Heather J. Shotton is a citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and is also a Cheyenne and Kiowa descendant. She is an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She served as co-editor for the recently released books Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education (Rutgers University Press) and Beyond Access: Indigenizing Programs for Native American Student Success (Stylus Publishing).
Kim Shuck
Kim Shuck is a poet and bead artist. She is the oldest daughter of Tsalagi and Goral families. Her poems can be found in packets of coffee, many literature periodicals, both online and paper, and in the pockets and notebooks of students. Her most recent book is Clouds Running In.
Mahmoud Shukair
Mahmoud Shukair was born in Jerusalem in 1941. He is the author of more than seventy books of short stories and novels, which have been translated into many languages. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Mahmoud Darwish Prize for Freedom and Creativity (2011) and the Jerusalem Prize for Culture and Creativity (2015).
ire’ne lara silva
ire’ne lara silva (irenelarasilva.wordpress.com) is the author of four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI / House of Song, and FirstPoems, and a short-story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. A new poetry collection, the eaters of flowers, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024.
