Authors
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Photo © Farhad Daryoushdiv>Goli Taraghi
Goli Taraghi (b. 1939) is the author of I, Too, Am Che Guevara; Winter’s Sleep; Scattered Memories; Another Place; Two Worlds; and A Second Chance. Taraghi lives in France but continues to write in Persian and to publish her work in Iran.
Eddie Tay
Eddie Tay is a street photographer and poet. He teaches in the Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written four volumes of poetry. His recent book, Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices, plays with the language of poetry, street photography, and creative-writing scholarship.
Aigerim Tazhi
Aigerim Tazhi Айгерим Тажи (Kazakhstan) is the author of the award-winning volumes of poetry БОГ-О-СЛОВ [THEO-LOG-IAN, or GOD O’WORDS] (Musaget, 2004) and Бумажная кожа / Paper-Thin Skin, published in a bilingual edition by Zephyr Press (2019). The book received positive reviews from international critics and was included in WLT’s 2019 list of seventy-five notable translations as well as Meduza’s list of the Year’s Top Books. Tazhi has been awarded international literary prizes, including the Literary Steps Prize, Shabyt, and shortlisted for others, such as the Debut Prize and the Voloshin Prize. Her poems have been widely published in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas and translated into many languages, including English, French, Dutch, German, Polish, Arabic, and others. Tazhi was featured at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam in 2022 and was a writing fellow in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP) in 2023. She is the author of several projects at the crossroads of poetry and other forms of art.
Agustín del Moral Tejeda
Agustín del Moral Tejeda was born in Las Choapas, Veracruz, in 1956. An accomplished writer, journalist, editor, translator, and activist, he currently lives and works in Xalapa at the University of Veracruz. He has published two novels, Nuestra alma melancólica en conserva (1997) and Cuéntame lo que me pasa (2009), as well as a work of creative nonfiction, Un Crack Mexicano: Alberto Onofre (2003). For many years he served as director of the university press of Veracruz, a key supporter of literary publication in Mexico.
Photo by Adriana Vichidiv>Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazil’s nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016, was born in São Paulo in 1923. She is widely considered one of Brazil’s most important writers and published her first book of short stories at the age of fifteen. She was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1985. She has won more than twenty-five national and international awards for her writing, including the Prêmio Camões, the most prestigious for Portuguese-language writers.
David Tenorio
David Tenorio is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with designated emphases in feminist research and theory and critical theory at the University of California, Davis. He is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Scholar Fellow and also served as managing editor for Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos. His research examines the representation of queer utopias in the contemporary cultural production of Cuba and Mexico.
Vlada Teper
Vlada Teper is a writer and educator from Moldova. Her essays have been featured in Newsweek and on NPR. A former Fulbright Scholar in Russia, Teper is the founder of Inspiring Multicultural Understanding (IMU) Peace Club. You can learn more at vladateper.com and follow her on Twitter @VladaTeper.
Anderson Tepper
Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the International Committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and curator of international literature at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and Words Without Borders, among other places.
Victor Terán
Víctor Téran was born in Juchitán de Zaragoza in 1958. His work has been published extensively in magazines and anthologies throughout Mexico (see WLT, May 2009, 24–25). Since 2000, he has also appeared in anthologies such as Reversible Monuments (Copper Canyon, 2002) and Words of the True Peoples (University of Texas Press, 2005).
Misrak Terefe
Misrak Terefe is a renowned poet in Ethiopia who published the first poetry VCD as a female poet. A founding member of the Tobiya Poetic Jazz Group, she has various joint publications with other writers as well as the Tobiya poetry and jazz DVD (vol. 1) release.
Photo by Dragan Radovancevicdiv>ko ko thett
ko ko thett is a poet by choice and a Burmese by chance. In between he is a poetry translator, editor, and anthologist of contemporary Burmese poetry (see WLT, January 2012, 35–41). His first anthology, Bones Will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets, was published in the US by Northern Illinois University Press. He lives in Vienna and writes in both Burmese and English.
Dominic Thomas
Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor and chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Black France (2007), Africa and France (2013), Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution (2014), The Invention of Race (2014), and Vers la guerre des identités (2016). He is the editor of the Global African Voices series at Indiana University Press.
Photo by Melissa Lukenbaughdiv>Laurie Thomas
Laurie Thomas is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and first-generation American with roots in Kingston, Jamaica. Thomas has received awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the MacDowell Colony, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She is at work on a first novel and story collection.
Camille Thompson
Camille Thompson is an aspiring editor and English literature professor, currently completing her second degree at the University of Oklahoma.
Photo: Peter Dresseldiv>Samantha Thornhill
Samantha Thornhill is a poet, educator, and author of three children’s books. A performer on stages across the US and internationally, she holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and taught poetry for a decade at the Juilliard School. Her newest children’s book, A Card for My Father, was published this year with Penny Candy Books.
Sergej Timofejev
Sergej Timofejev is a member of Orbita, a creative collective of Russian poets and artists, as well as a Riga-based journalist, translator, and DJ. Since the late 1980s, he has published in the journals Rodnik, Mitin zhurnal, Vavilon, Znamia, and others. A pioneer of video poetry in Russian, his first video poem, "Orchestra Rehearsal" (1995), may be seen on YouTube. Timofejev is the author of six books of poetry, three of which were published in Latvia and three in Russia. He was short-listed for the Andrei Belyi prize in 2002. His poetry has been translated into several languages.
Photo by Mahir Karayazıdiv>Erkut Tokman
Turkish poet, translator, and visual/performance artist Erkut Tokman is a member of the Poetry Society and Exiled Writers Ink as well as both Turkish and Italian PEN. He is the author of five verse collections and has recent poems in New Humanist and Poetry Buenos Aires. He won the Italian Ministry of Culture Translation and Quasimodo Jaci Poetry awards.
Photo by Iván Rubíndiv>Natalia Toledo
Natalia Toledo was born in a neighborhood of fishermen in Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico. Her bilingual poetry anthology Guie’ yaase’ / Olivo negro won the National Indigenous Language Prize in 2004. Her poems and stories have been translated to languages as varied as French, Punjab, and Euskera.
Svetlana Tomić
Svetlana Tomić is an associate professor in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Alfa BK University, Serbia. She has authored five scholarly monographs, edited six books, and published two books of poems. For her first poetry book she received the Serbian Literary Youth Organization publication award for a manuscript. Her main research interests are in the institutionalized public knowledge of nineteenth-century Serbian literature, research methodologies in closed societies, hidden history, women’s writings, the formation of a women’s elite in the Balkans, and post-Yugoslav literature.
Andrea Tompa
Andrea Tompa (b. 1971) is a novelist and theater critic based in Budapest. She edits the leading theater journal Színház (Theater) and is a member of the Széchenyi Literary and Arts Academy. Her fourth novel, Haza (Home), was published in June 2020. “Tongue in Mouth” is an excerpt from it.
Martín Tonalmeyotl
Martín [Jacinto Meza] Tonalmeyotl is a Nahua poet, fiction writer, teacher, translator, radio host, and columnist who has dedicated his career to the anthologization, destigmatization, and greater circulation of underrepresented languages native to Mexico and, more recently, the greater Americas. A trained linguist, his master’s thesis was the first to formally document the morphology and phonology of Atzacoaloya Náhuatl, the variant in which he writes; he has been a professor at various universities in Mexico, at work training a new generation of speakers. He is on the editorial board of Nueva York Poetry Review Press, where he oversees the publication of texts written in indigenous languages. Additionally, he is editor of the series Xochitlájtoli (Círculo de Poesía), a regular column of contemporary poetry written in Mexico’s indigenous languages, and Brasiliana, a series dedicated to those of Latin America more broadly appearing trilingually in the original, Spanish, and Portuguese (Philos). He is compiler of the anthology Xochitlajtoli: Poesía contemporánea en lenguas originarias de México (Círculo de Poesía, 2019), the first to be selected and edited by a member of an indigenous community rather than a scholar from the outside, and the first to include the authors’ own unmediated translations into Spanish. An enormous undertaking including thirty-one authors in sixteen languages, Xochitlajtoli is one of the most significant recent scholarly achievements in hemispheric American poetry. Tonalmeyotl has also compiled an anthology of all female-identified poets writing in Náhuatl as well as a several-hundred-page long, three-volume historical survey of Nahuatl writing. His bilingual collections, which present self-translations from regional Atzacoaloya Náhuatl into Spanish en face alongside the original, include Tlalkatsajtsilistle / Ritual de los olvidados (Jaguar Ediciones, Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Puebla, 2016), Nosentlalilxochitlajtol / Antología personal (Asociación de Escritores de México, Colección Colores Primarios, 2017), and Istitsin ueyeatsintle / Uña mar (Cisnegro, 2019).
Khal Torabully
Khal Torabully, from Mauritius, is a prizewinning poet, essayist, film director, and semiologist. Author of some twenty-five books, he coined the term “coolitude” to give voice to indentured workers, imbuing the term with dignity and pride. Torabully’s linguistic acrobatics (wordplay and neologisms) serve to heighten the seriousness of his themes.
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer (born 15 April 1931 in Stockholm) is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, who has sold thousands of volumes in his native country, and whose poetry has been translated into over sixty languages. He has published ten volumes of poetry in Swedish, from 17 dikter (17 Poems; 1954) to For levande och doda (1989; Eng. "For Living and Dead"). He won the 1990 Neustadt Prize.
