Authors
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Gunter Silva
Gunter Silva has published a collection of short stories, Crónicas de Londres (2012), and a novel, Pasos Pesados (2016). He studied law and political science at the Universidad Católica de Santa María in Peru and holds a BA in arts and humanities and also completed an MA in creative writing at the University of Westminster.
Photo: Bob Hsiangdiv>Kevin Simmonds
Kevin Simmonds is a poet and musician originally from New Orleans. His full-length collections include Mad for Meat and Bend to It, the edited anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, and, most recently, the chapbook The Noh of Dorian Corey. He lives in San Francisco.
Sam Simmons
Sam Simmons is a writer from San Jose, California. He is currently a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz, majoring in literature.
Photo by Alba Simondiv>Daniel Simon
Daniel Simon is a poet, essayist, translator, and WLT’s assistant director and editor in chief. His 2017 edited volume, Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017, won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. His most recent edited collection, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Deep Vellum/Phoneme, 2020), was a Publishers Weekly starred pick. Under a Gathering Sky, his third book of poems, was published by SFA Press in April 2024.
Sofia Simon
Sofia Simon is currently a junior at Norman High School. She plans on studying environmental science in college.
Cecilia Simon
Cecilia Simon is a junior at the University of Oklahoma. She is studying psychology and pre-medicine, with a minor in Spanish. She hopes to attend the OU College of Medicine and become a pediatric psychiatrist.
Ekaterina Simonova
Ekaterina Simonova is a Russian poet and literary critic from Nizhny Tagil in the Ural region. Her latest collection is Два ее единственных платья (Her only two dresses, 2020), and several of her poems appeared in the English-language anthology Ф Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry, published in 2020. She lives in Yekaterinburg.
Kedarnath Singh
Kedarnath Singh (1934–2018) was a poet, critic, and essayist of Hindi literature. He received the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, in 2013. His anthologies include Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Yahan Se Dekho, Zameen Pak Rahi hai, Akaal Mein Saaras, and Bagh.
Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh’s short pieces have appeared in Granta, Brick, Walrus, Zoetrope, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the New York Times. He is the author of the poetry collections November and How to Hold a Pebble; the novels Helium, Chef, and Face; the story collection Seventeen Tomatoes; and the memoir My Mother, My Translator. Dreams of the Epoch and the Rock, his newest book, will be published this fall.
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an Indian-American poet, writer, filmmaker, and author of four poetry collections. Her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in notable journals worldwide, and her works have been translated into many languages. Poems from her award-winning book Bare Soul and a poetry film, River of Songs, included in the Nova Collection and the Polaris Collection of the Lunar Codex time capsules, are set to go to the moon with NASA’s Nova-C lander missions to Oceanus Procellarum in 2022 and NASA’s Viper rover mission to the lunar south pole in 2023. Her forthcoming poetry collection, Trespassing My Ancestral Lands, is in the making.
Krzysztof Siwczyk
Polish poet and essayist Krzysztof Siwczyk (b. 1977) is the author of seventeen collections of poems and six books of literary criticism, essays, and prose. He is a laureate of the Kościelski Foundation Award, the Gdynia Literary Award in the essay category, the Silesius Poetry Award, and the Václav Burian Award. He also played the main roles in two feature films: Wojaczek (directed by Lech Majewski, 1999) and Wyexpony (directed by Adam Sikora, 2010). He lives in Gliwice.
Gianni Skaragas
Gianni Skaragas is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. His English work includes Prime Numbers (2009) and, most recently, The Lady of Ro and Other Stories. His awards and fellowships include honors from organizations in the US and Europe and the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize in Prose (University of Colorado, 2018). His most recent contribution to WLT, “The History of Grains,” appeared in the September 2017 issue.
Jake Skeets
Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné and holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a winner of the 2018 Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Prize. His debut collection, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, was selected by Kathy Fagan for Milkweed as a winner for the 2018 National Poetry Series. He currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.
Alexander Skidan
Alexander Skidan is a poet, critic, essayist, and translator. He is the author of more than ten books, including, in English, Red Shifting and the pamphlet Golem Soveticus: Prigov as Brecht and Warhol in One Persona. He has been recognized with the Andrei Bely Prize and a Joseph Brodsky Fellowship. Skidan is a member of the working group “What is to be done?” and editor of the “Practice” section of New Literary Review. He lives and works in Saint Petersburg and Tbilisi, Georgia.
Josef Škvorecký
Josef Škvorecký (1924-2012) was a writer and publisher. After receiveing his PhD in Philosophy, Škvorecký began to write novels, which were banned by the Communist government in Czechoslovakia. Many of his works espoused democratic ideals that threatened the state of the government, but his novels helped to usher in the Prague Spring in 1968. When the Russian army invaded Czechoslovakia that same year, Škvorecký and his wife found asylum in Canada, where the pair founded a publishing house that emphasized the publication of banned Czech and Slovak books. Škvorecký remained in Canada for the remainder of his life. He won the 1980 Neustadt Prize.
Rachel Smith
Rachel Smith is a former WLT intern and recently graduated with a degree in English literature from the University of Oklahoma.
Stevi L. Smith
Stevi Smith attended the University of Oklahoma in pursuit of a BA in English (writing) with a minor in women’s and gender studies. She has a short story published in the Tulsa Review entitled “Daisies,” which won second place in the Tulsa Review writing contest. She won the Lydia Dorothea Haag Award in spring of 2022 for superior creative writing as a newly enrolled English major. She interned with WLT during her junior year and plans to pursue a career in novel editing. Stevi is passionate about women’s rights; she often writes about her own experiences as a woman dealing with medical professionals with the hope of spreading awareness of women’s medical legitimacy. She grew up in Collinsville, Oklahoma, and hopes to work for a major publishing company upon receiving her bachelor’s degree.
Mitchell P. Smith
Mitchell P. Smith is professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the University of Oklahoma's College of International Studies. He has been a European Union Fulbright Fellow in Belgium and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has authored, co-authored, or edited several books on the European Union and is completing a book about the deep perceptual divide in the United States and how it is damaging democracy. His essay “Soft Power Rising: Romantic Europe in the Service of Practical Europe” appeared in the January 2006 issue of WLT.
Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist. She is a Guggenheim fellow; an NEA grant recipient; a former fellow at Civitella Ranieri, Yaddo, and MacDowell; a professor in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College; and a distinguished professor for the City University of New York. She was also a nominee for the 2018 Neustadt Prize.
Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffithsdiv>Tracy K. Smith
Poet, librettist, and translator Tracy K. Smith served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States and is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where she also chairs the Lewis Center for the Arts. The author of four books of poems, she received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. In October, Graywolf Press will publish Such Color: New and Selected Poems. She will deliver the keynote at the “Reflecting on the Past, Facing the Future” symposium on April 9, 2021.
Jasmine Elizabeth Smith
Jasmine Elizabeth Smith (she/her) is a Black poet from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Cave Canem Fellow. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Riverside. Her poetic work, invested in the diaspora of Black Americans in various historical contexts, has been featured in Black Renaissance Noir and Poetry, among others. She is the winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize, and her collection South Flight is forthcoming with the University of Georgia Press.
Dinitia Smith
Dinitia Smith is the author of four novels: The Hard Rain, Remember This, The Illusionist, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and, most recently, The Honeymoon.
Lindsey Claire Smith
Lindsey Claire Smith is an associate professor of English at Oklahoma State University and director of the Center for Poets and Writers at OSU–Tulsa. She is editor of American Indian Quarterly and author of three books, most recently a monograph on urban Native writing from Oklahoma. She serves on the advisory committee for the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation at OSU–Tulsa.
Stevi Smith
Stevi Smith is a junior at the University of Oklahoma pursuing an English writing degree with a minor in women’s and gender studies. She has a short story published in the Tulsa Review and won the Lydia Dorothea Haag Award in spring 2022. Upon graduation, she plans to pursue a career in novel editing. She grew up in Collinsville, Oklahoma.
Brian Sneeden
Brian Sneeden’s first collection of poems, Last City, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018). His poems and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications, and translations of his poetry have been published in Greek, Albanian, and Serbian. His translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s collection, Homerica, is forthcoming from the inaugural series of World Poetry Books (2017).
