Authors

Alexandria Williams

Alexandria Williams is a WLT intern pursuing a dual degree in professional writing and international area studies/prelaw. 

C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams (born Charles Kenneth Williams on November 2, 1936) is an American poet, critic and translator. Williams has won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The 2012 film Tar related aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.

Alison Williams

Alison Williams is a writer and translator, currently in the MFA/MA (English) program at Chapman University. She is editor-in-chief of Chapman’s graduate interdisciplinary journal, Anastamos, and has been a reader for the journal Tabula Poetica. Her interview series Storytellers is a collection of multimedia talks with creative and innovative minds. Alison is founder and CEO of the international media consultancy Raconteur.

David Williams

David Williams is the translator of Dubravka Ugrešić’s Karaoke Culture (2011) and Europe in Sepia (2014), and of Miljenko Jergović’s Mama Leone (2013). He is also the author of Writing Postcommunism: Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins (2013) and a number of essays on postcommunist literature and film. Since taking early retirement from literary life, he has started building a small house on New Zealand’s west coast and has his sights set on a life straight out of Tolstoy’s Family Happiness.

Harry Williams

Harry Williams is a WLT intern and an English student at the University of Oklahoma.

Sara Wilson

A WLT intern, Sara Wilson is earning a master’s in literary and cultural studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her interests are postmodern and contemporary American fiction and poetry.

Violet Wilson

Violet Wilson is an intern at World Literature Today. She is also an exchange student from England, where she studies American literature and creative writing. 

Harmen Wind

Tanaya Winder

Tanaya Winder is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and performance poet from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. She graduated from Stanford University, and her first book, Words Like Love, was published in 2015. Tanaya founded Dream Warriors, an Indigenous artist management company.

Peyton Winter

Peyton Winter is a senior at the University of Oklahoma pursuing a bachelor’s degree in advertising with a minor in editing and publishing. In addition to interning with World Literature Today, she works with Brandlink Media and The Brides of Oklahoma.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Virginia Euwer Wolff was born in 1937 in Oregon. After graduating from Smith College, she taught school, reared two children, and attended graduate school in four states before beginning to write for young readers in her mid-forties. Her novels focus on a learning-disabled sixteen-year-old boy (Probably Still Nick Swansen, 1988); twelve-year-old violinist Allegra Leah Shapiro (The Mozart Season, 1991); two sixth-grade softball teams in 1949 (Bat 6, 1998); and an unmarried teen mother, her two children, and their babysitter (Make Lemonade, 1993; True Believer, 2001; and This Full House, 2009).

Wolff has won the National Book Award, the Jane Addams Peace Award and Honor, two Golden Kites, the Michael L. Printz Honor, two Oregon Book Awards, and, most recently, the Phoenix Book Award from the Children's Literature Association.

She has lived in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., but now reads, writes, and plays chamber music in Oregon.

Wong Yi

Wong Yi is an award-winning Hong Kong writer, librettist, founding member of the Xi Xi Foundation, and former editor at Fleur des Lettres. She is the author of four short-story collections: Ways to Love in a Crowded City, The Four Seasons of Lam Yip, Patched Up, and News Stories. She participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2023.

Karenne Wood

Karenne Wood, an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, holds an MFA in poetry and a PhD in linguistic anthropology. She is the author of two poetry collections, Markings on Earth (2000) and Weaving the Boundary (2016). Her poems have appeared in such journals as the Kenyon Review, Orion, and Shenandoah.

Angus Woodward

Angus Woodward’s books of fiction are Down at the End of the River, Americanisation, and Oily. His recent work in graphic memoir appears in Shenandoah, Split Rock Review, Lumina, and Slag Glass City, among others, and is currently being serialized by Hobart. Angus lives, writes, illustrates, and teaches in Baton Rouge.

Jordan Woodward

Jordan Woodward is a master’s student in English specializing in composition, rhetoric, and literacy at the University of Oklahoma. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, exploring nature, and riding her bicycle.

Grady C. Wray

Grady C. Wray is an associate professor of Latin American literature and Spanish at the University of Oklahoma. His major investigatory focus concerns Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and other early-modern Hispanic women writers. Recently he has taken on several translation projects of contemporary poetry and fiction.

Jay Wright

From his initial appearance in the Langston Hughes–edited anthology New Negro Poets U.S.A. (1964), Jay Wright (b. 1935, Albuquerque) has published fourteen volumes of poetry and been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the American Book Award, and Yale’s Bollingen Prize. Key works include Transfigurations: Collected Poems (2000) and The Guide Signs (2007), both from LSU Press. His collection Boleros was translated into Spanish and published by the University of Veracruz in 2005.

Julia Wu

Julia Wu is a WLT intern. 

Christiane Wyrwa

Christiane Wyrwa studied German and English literature at Göttingen, Durham GB, and Berlin, where she took a PhD in 1981. With her husband, Matthias Klein, she edited Kuno Raeber’s Collected Works in seven volumes from 2002 to 2010.

Xi Xi

Xi Xi (the pen name of Cheung Yin) has written more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. One of Hong Kong’s most beloved and prolific authors, she has won numerous international awards, most recently the 2019 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

Xiao An

Xiao An (b. 1964) is often regarded as a “poet’s poet” in China. One of the few women in the experimental poetry group feifei, meaning “neither/nor,” she has been working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital for twenty years while steadily publishing poetry. Her writing is influenced by classical Chinese poetry but has a contemporary feel in its themes and sensibility.

Xiao Hai

Xiao Hai (b. 1987) was born in Shangqiu City in Henan Province in China, the hometown of the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi. He has spent many years living in different cities as a migrant worker and composed over five hundred poems. After encountering Picun, an urban village outside of Beijing, he became a member of the Picun Literature Group and won the Best Poet prize at the First Laborers’ Literature Awards.

Yan Lu

Yan Lu is an associate professor in the Department of French and Asian Studies and coordinator of the Chinese Program at Huron University College, Western University, Ontario. She received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on contemporary Chinese immigrant literature in Canada.