Authors
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Tiffanie Vo
Tiffanie Vo is a WLT intern studying human relations and sociology at the University of Oklahoma. She is passionate about sharing her Vietnamese culture and advocating for Asian American rights. When she’s not studying, she is performing spoken word at local open mics and taking kickboxing classes four times a week.
Photo by Dmitry Rozhkovdiv>Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, also spelled Voynovich (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Войно́вич) (born 26 September 1932), is a Russian (formerly Soviet) writer and a dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature.
Rob Vollmar
Rob Vollmar is WLT’s book review and online editor, as well as the webmaster for the magazine's websites.
Photo by Rino Bianchidiv>Anna Voltaggio
Anna Voltaggio, a Sicilian debut writer who now lives in Rome, works as a press officer in the cultural sector. La nostalgia che avremo di noi (Neri Pozza, 2023), the collection in which “Lucilla” appears, is her first publication.
Tatiana Voltskaya
Tatiana Voltskaya is the author of fifteen published poetry collections, including Cicada (2006) and Trostdroppar (2009). A PEN Club member, she is also the winner of multiple national and international poetry prizes. Since 2000 Voltskaya has worked as an editor and correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, one of the few sources of credible news in the Russian Federation. Surveilled by the Russian secret service agency, the FSB, and officially branded a “foreign agent” in Russia, Voltskaya felt forced to flee her home country and does not know how long her exile might last.
Ute von Funcke
Ute von Funcke, who wrote plays for children before turning to poetry in 2004, has published four collections of poems, most recently in den rissen der zeit (“in the fissures of time”; scaneg Verlag, 2018). A selection of her poetry, translated by Stuart Friebert, Between Question & Answer, appeared in 2018 from Pinyon Press. A companion volume, Shadow of Shadows, will soon follow from Black Mountain Press.
William Voskergian
William Voskergian was born in Jerusalem in 1949. His father, a survivor of the Armenian massacres during the Ottoman Empire, was smuggled into Palestine by William’s grandfather, through the Syrian desert, when he was twelve years old in 1915. His mother is a Palestinian refugee from Nazareth. He is the author of six books of short stories and novels. He has been a teacher of oriental music and a schoolteacher for over forty years.
Abdourahman A. Waberi
Abdourahman A. Waberi, from Djibouti, is a major voice in African postcolonial studies. He has received a multitude of honors, including a PEN France prize and a medal from the Académie française. Since 2012, he has been a professor of French and francophone studies at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Hope Wabuke
Hope Wabuke is a poet, writer, and assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Alex Wade
Writer and lawyer Alex Wade has written for broadsheets across the UK, including the Times Literary Supplement. The author of three nonfiction books, his first novel is Flack’s Last Shift.
Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Rebecca L. Walkowitz is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English and affiliate faculty in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation (2006) and Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature (2015) and editor or coeditor of eight books, including A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism (2016).
Oleksandra Wallo
Oleksandra Wallo is the author of Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan (University of Toronto Press, 2020) as well as articles on contemporary Ukrainian literature and film. An associate professor at the University of Kansas, her current research project examines the New Drama phenomenon in Ukraine.
Wang Anyi
The fifth laureate of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, Wang Anyi moved to Shanghai with her family when she was one year old. Like her mother, writer Ru Zhijuan (1925–98), Wang pursued a literary career and became very successful in the early 1980s. Wang is prolific and innovative: she writes consistently about the history intimately intertwined with her personal memories, and she writes profusely about Shanghai. Several of her representative works, including Lapse of Time, Brocade Valley, Love on a Barren Mountain, Love in a Small Town, and Song of Everlasting Sorrow, are available in English translations.
Wang Ping
Wang Ping has published thirteen books of poetry and prose. She’s the recipient of NEA, Bush, Lannan, and McKnight fellowships, director of the Kinship of Rivers project, and professor of English at Macalester College. Her multimedia exhibitions include Behind the Gate: After the Flood of the Three Gorges and We Are Water: Kinship of Rivers.
Wang Xiaosong
Wang Xiaosong is an art critic, independent curator, and columnist. Wang received his PhD from the Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2015. He was a postdoc at Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2017. Wang Xiaosong photo by Ouyang Yong
Eleanor Wasserberg
Eleanor Wasserberg (@e_wasserberg) studied at Oxford University and has a creative writing MA from the University of East Anglia. She’s lived in Paris and London and was awarded a writing grant from the UK Arts Council to complete her debut novel, Foxlowe (2017). She now lives in Norwich, UK.
Photo by Amber Boardmandiv>Lauren K. Watel
Lauren K. Watel’s debut volume, Book of Potions, a collection of prose poetry, was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and will be published in fall 2024 by Sarabande Books. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have appeared widely.
Wawa
Wawa, aka Lo Mei Wa (lomeiwa.com), is a Hong Kong medium-pure poet. She received her degrees in philosophy in Hong Kong and the Netherlands and is the author of Pei Pei the Monkey King and Anna and Anna. She is currently living in Berkeley.
Storme Webber
Storme Webber is a Two Spirit Sugpiaq/Black/Choctaw poet and interdisciplinary artist. Winner of the James W. Ray Award, her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian and Field Museum, along with a solo show at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum. She is author/performer of Blues Divine and founder/director of Voices Rising: LGBTQ of Color Arts & Culture.
Lian-Hee Wee
Lian-Hee Wee is a failed restaurateur because his venture tried to provide quality food to the unseen poor in a rich community. As a linguist, he has published eight books and numerous articles. His poems can be found in the Hong Kong–based Cha and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine.
Quinn Carpenter Weedon
Quinn Carpenter Weedon is an advanced poetry student in Oklahoma City University’s undergraduate English program.
Photo © R. Espinoza Riosdiv>Sylvie Weil
Sylvie Weil grew up in Paris and earned her degrees in classics and French literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of numerous works of literary fiction and memoir, including At Home with André and Simone Weil and also a series of three young-adult novels set in Champagne at the time of the first Crusade. The first of this trilogy, Le mazal d’Elvina, won the Prix Sorcières, one of the most prestigious prizes awarded in France for the best novel for young people.
