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  • Grace Bauer

    Grace Bauer is a prize-winning American poet.



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    Andreas Baum

    Andreas Baum (b. 1967) grew up in Nairobi and Hesse, Germany. He studied journalism and Latin American studies in Berlin and has written as a journalist for well-known German newspapers. Since 2013 he is the culture editor and an author at Deutschlandradio Kultur. Wir waren die neue Zeit (We were the new era) is his first novel.

     



  • Judith Baumel

    Judith Baumel is a poet, critic, and translator from Italian and Ukrainian. She is a professor of English and founding director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi University. She has served as president of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, director of the Poetry Society of America, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Italy. Her books include The Weight of Numbers, for which she won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, Now, The Kangaroo Girl, and the forthcoming Passeggiate.



  • Ruperta Bautista Vázquez

    Ruperta Bautista Vázquez is a community educator, writer, anthropologist, translator, and Tsotsil Maya actress from San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. She has published a number of books, and her work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Catalan, and Portuguese. 



  • Rand Bawwab

    Rand Bawwab is a Palestinian poet, future doctor, and part-time swim coach from Lod, Palestine. She has been writing poetry from a young age and turns to it as a safe haven. She firmly believes that writing has the power to ignite awareness and change where injustice exists.



  • Jason Bayani

    Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing, 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College, a Kundiman Fellow, and works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo theater show, Locus of Control, in 2016.



  • Faraj Bayrakdar

    Faraj Bayrakdar (b. 1951) of Syria is a journalist and award-winning poet. In 1987 he was arrested on suspicion of belonging to the Party for Communist Action. He was held incommunicado for nearly seven years and tortured. In 1993 the supreme court sentenced him to fifteen years in prison. Fourteen months shy of completing his sentence, Bayrakdar was granted amnesty. He now lives in Sweden. He has won many awards, including the 1998 Hellman-Hammett Award, the 1999 International PEN Award from PEN American Center West, and the 2004 Free Word Award from NOVIB in the Netherlands.



  • Askold Bazhanov

    Askold Bazhanov is a Skolt Saami poet writing in the Russian language. He was born in 1934 in the village of Notozero, Murmansk district, Russia. After the Second World War he relocated to Leningrad to study in the Department of the Peoples of the North, a special sector for ethnic minorities created under the auspices of Gertsen State Pedagogical University. Upon returning home to the historically Saami lands near Lovozero township, he began writing poetry while working in various occupations: as a miner, a railroad technician, a tractor operator, and a reindeer herder. His best-known publications include Solntse nad tundroi (Sun over the tundra, 1983) and Belyi Olen’ (The white reindeer, 1996). The main themes of his poetry include the struggle to preserve indigenous cultural identity in the face of encroaching modernity; surviving the hardships of collectivization, war, and economic exploitation; and the intimate, spiritual connections between humans and the natural world. His work has been translated into English and various dialects of Saami.



  • Jan Beatty

    Jan Beatty’s fifth book, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), won the 2018 Paterson Prize. The Huffington Post called her one of ten “advanced women poets for required reading.” She worked as an abortion counselor, in maximum-security prisons, and directs the creative writing program at Carlow University.


  • Mimerose P. Beaubrun

    Mimerose Beaubrun was born in northwest Haiti. A social and cultural anthropologist, she is also the co-founder and lead singer of the internationally known world music band, Boukmans Ekperyans. In 2002, the United Nations nominated her, along with the band, as a Peace and Goodwill ambassador.


  • Tony Beaulieu

    Tony Beaulieu (@tonybe787) is a WLT intern, writer for the OU Daily, and an undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma.



  • Beau Beausoleil

    Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist (Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here) based in San Francisco, California. His most recent book of poetry is Another Way Home (Blue Light Press, 2022). 



  • Alison Bechdel

    Alison Bechdel (/ˈbɛkdəl/ bek-dəl; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home.



  • Zeina Hashem Beck

    Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck is the author of two chapbooks: 3arabi Song, winner of the 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and There Was and How Much There Was, a 2016 Laureate’s Choice, selected by Carol Ann Duffy. Her latest book, Louder Than Hearts, winner of the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, is forthcoming in April 2017.


  • Frank Beck

    Frank Beck is a New York–based writer and photographer. He reviews poetry for The Manhattan Review; his photographs have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. His blog, “On the wing,” can be found at www.diehoren.com. 


  • Eric M. B. Becker

    Eric M. B. Becker is an award-winning writer, translator, and journalist from St. Paul, Minnesota. He has recently published translations of Brazilian writers Edival Lourenço, Eric Nepomuceno, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, as well as 2014 Neustadt Prize winner Mia Couto, in the Massachusetts Review, MobyLives, and the PEN America Blog. In 2014 he was a Louis Armstrong House Museum resident and received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of the Couto short-story collection Estórias Abensonhadas. He also serves as assistant managing editor at Asymptote.


  • Esinam Bediako

    Esinam Bediako is a Ghanaian American writer from Detroit. She is the author of the Ann Petry Award–winning novel Blood on the Brain (2024) as well as the essay/poetry chapbook Self-Talk (2024). You can find some of her recent work in Porter House Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Great River Review, North American Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Esi lives in Claremont, California, with her husband and their two sons, who create stories, videos, and other artwork with enviable speed and imagination.


  • Stephen Behrendt

    Stephen Behrendt was born in Marinette, Wisconsin, and took his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He lives now in Nebraska, where he is George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. An international authority on British Romantic literature and culture, he is also a widely published poet. The most recent of his four collections is Refractions (Shechem Press, 2014). The poems here are from a book-length manuscript, Chrysanthemum.


  • Merleyn Bell

    Merleyn Bell is a former art director at World Literature Today.



  • Hakim Bellamy

    Hakim Bellamy became the inaugural poet laureate of Albuquerque on April 14, 2012, at age thirty-three. He was the son of a preacher man (and a praying woman). Bellamy has been on two national champion poetry slam teams, won collegiate and city poetry slam championships (in Albuquerque and Silver City, NM), and has been published in numerous anthologies and on inner-city buses. A musician, actor, journalist, playwright, and community organizer, Bellamy’s first book, Swear, was recently published by West End Press.



  • Aitana Bellido

    Aitana Bellido is an independent researcher and cultural manager based in Barcelona. Her background in translation, law, and publishing has led her to pursue research on world literature and the material and colonial dimensions of literary circulation. She has worked at the project “The Novel as Global Form: Poetic Challenges and Cross-Border Literary Circulation” (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).



  • Juan Bello Sánchez

    Juan Bello Sánchez is a Spanish poet and teacher from Santiago de Compostela. He has published six poetry collections, three chapbooks, and has been awarded the IV Premio de Poesía Joven “Pablo García Baena,” the XVI Premio de Poesía Emilio Prado, and the VI Premio de Poesía Joven RNE.



  • David Bellos

    David Bellos is a professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University and has translated numerous authors from French. Educated at Oxford, he has written biographies of Georges Perec and Jacques Tati, a study of Romain Gary, and an introduction to translation studies, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? His latest book is a study of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Misérables.



  • Igor Belov

    Igor Belov was born in 1975 in St. Petersburg and currently lives in Kaliningrad. He is the author of two books of poetry: Ves' etot dzhazz (2004; All that jazz) and Muzika ne dlia tolstykh (2008; Music not for fat people). His poetry has been translated into Swedish, German, Polish, Estonian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian, and he has been recognized with awards and grants in Russia, Sweden, and Poland.



  • Zoe Belsinger

    Zoe Belsinger is an illustrator/painter/cartoonist/puppet-maker living in Belgium with her beloved cat, Sasha. She started publishing fanzines in late 2015 and is currently working on her first stop-motion short film. She also dedicates her life to kitsch and bad taste.



  • Jorge Eduardo Benavides

    Jorge Eduardo Benavides is a Peruvian novelist who currently resides in Madrid. His latest novel, El enigma del convento (2014), was awarded the Premio Torrente Ballester in Spain.


  • John Bengan

    John Bengan’s translations of Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano’s work have appeared or are forthcoming in Words Without Borders, Shenandoah, and LIT. He teaches at the University of the Philippines Mindanao.



  • Layla Benitez-James

    Layla Benitez-James is a 2022 NEA fellow in translation and the author of God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode but He Had to Make Sure, selected by Major Jackson for Cave Canem’s Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and published by Jai-Alai Books. More writing can be found in Black Femme Collective, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latino Book Review, Poetry London, Acentos Review, Asymptote Journal, and Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books.



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    Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard

    Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard is a PhD student in comparative literature at Aarhus University. Her project investigates how a wave of Latin American and East Asian genre-hybrid speculative fiction uses uncomfortable, negative sensations to connect abstract, planetary matters to intimate, bodily everyday experiences and hereby creates a more complex understanding of the often-overlooked consequences of the climate crisis.



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    Joshua Bennett

    Joshua Bennett is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University and has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Ford Foundation. Winner of the 2015 Erskine J. Poetry Prize, his poems have been published or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Callaloo, New England Review, and elsewhere. Bennett is also the founding editor of Kinfolks: a journal of black expression.