Authors
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Ariana Benson
Ariana Benson (@literari_ana) is from Chesapeake, Virginia. She received the 2021 Graybeal-Gowen Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 Pink Poetry Prize. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Obsidian, West Branch, Shenandoah, Great River Review, and Auburn Avenue, where she serves as nonfiction editor, and elsewhere. Through her writing, she strives to fashion vignettes of Blackness that speak to its infinite depth and richness.
Catalina Infante Beovic
Catalina Infante Beovic is a Chilean writer, publisher, and co-owner of Librería Catalonia in Chile. She has written three books of short stories of the Indigenous peoples of Chile, authored the picture book Dichos redichos and the artist’s book Postal nocturna, and in 2018 published her first book of stories, Todas somos una misma sombra. “Ferns,” published in 2020 by WLT and subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was her English-language debut.
Sherko Bekas
Sherko Bekas (1940–2013) published over twenty books and served as the founding chair for Sardam, a major publishing house in Iraqi Kurdistan. In his twenties, he joined the Peshmerga and fought the Baathist regime. Under severe political pressure, he sought asylum in Sweden from 1987 to 1992. His poems have been translated into Arabic, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian, French, and English.
Susan Bernardin
Susan Bernardin is chair of Women’s & Gender Studies and professor of English at SUNY Oneonta. Her recent work on contemporary Indigenous mixed-media and comic/graphic arts can be seen in SAIL (Studies in American Indian Literatures) and the Routledge Companion to Native American Literature.
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
Laura Bernstein-Machlay is a longtime Detroiter who teaches at the College for Creative Studies. Her work has appeared in the American Scholar, Georgia Review, Hotel Amerika, Into the Void, Michigan Quarterly Review, Redivider, World Literature Today, and many others. She has essays forthcoming in Gargoyle and the Massachusetts Review. Her full-length collection of creative nonfiction, Travelers, was published in 2018.
Mohamed Berrada
Mohamed Berrada (b. 1938) is a Moroccan writer and literary critic who served as president of the Moroccan Writers’ Union from 1976 to 1983. He holds a PhD in literary criticism from France. He has written many novels, including Game of Forgetting (1987), Fugitive Light (1994), Like a Summer Never to be Repeated (1999), Woman of Forgetfulness (2002), Neighboring Lives (2009), Near to the Silence (2014). He has also published two collections of short stories.
Wendell Berry
Wendell E. Berry is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. A prolific author, he has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays
Stephen Eric Berry
Stephen Eric Berry is a filmmaker, composer, and a recipient of a Jule and Avery Hopwood Award at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in Salamander, Soundings East, Puerto del Sol, California Quarterly, Sukoon, and The Ilanot Review. In 2017 he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to be a visiting scholar at the “Emily Dickinson: Person, Poetry and Place” workshops at Amherst College. In the summer of 2018, his film Clogged Only with Music, Like the Wheels of Birds was screened at the Emily Dickinson International Society annual meeting in Amherst. He lives in Chelsea, Michigan.
Marilyne Bertoncini
Born in Flanders and dividing her time between Nice and Parma, Marilyne Bertoncini is a teacher, poet, and translator. Her most recent publications include La Noyée d’Onagawa (Jacques André Éditeur, 2020), Son corps d’ombre (Éd. Zinzoline, 2021), and a translation: Gili Haimovich’s Soleil hésitant (Jacques André Éditeur, 2021). Since 2016 she has been the co-director of the online literary review Recours au Poème.
Uldis Bērziņš’
Uldis Bērziņš’ (1944–2021) was a Latvian poet and translator. The last of his many books of poetry, Idylls, appeared in 2018. An astounding polyglot, he translated into Latvian El Cantar de mio Cid, the Edda, the Qur’an, several books of the Hebrew Bible, modern authors including Szymborska, Khlebnikov, Auden, and Borges, and much else.
Pierre Bettencourt
Pierre Bettencourt (1917–2006) was a critically acclaimed French essayist, painter, poet, and printer who first self-published his own work on a family-owned manual press during the Nazi occupation of France.
Zakarya Bezdoode
Zakarya Bezdoode is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kurdistan and a part-time researcher at the Kurdistan Studies Institute of the University of Kurdistan, Iran. He does research on contemporary English and Kurdish fiction.
Jenny Bhatt
Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and the host of the Desi Books podcast. Her story collection, Each of Us Killers, was out in the US in September 2020, and her literary translation, Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, appeared in India in October 2020. She lives in the Dallas, Texas, area and teaches fiction at Writing Workshops Dallas.
Photo by Rajarshi Dasguptadiv>Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Nehru and the Spirit of India (Penguin Random House, 2022).
Shelly Bhoil
Shelly Bhoil is a Brazil-based writer. Her forthcoming works include an edited volume, Resistant Hybridities: New Narratives of Exile Tibet (Lexington Books, US).
Apala Bhowmick
Apala Bhowmick lives in India, where she has worked in the editorial departments of Seagull Books (Kolkata) and Routledge Books (New Delhi), after graduating from college with an English literature degree. She currently freelances as a copyeditor, literary translator, and reviews fiction and nonfiction books for various platforms.
Photo: Daniel Simondiv>Elisa Biagini
Elisa Biagini has published seven poetry collections, most recently Da una crepa (2014). Her poems have been translated into many languages, and she has published editions of her poetry in Spain and the US. A translator from English—of Alicia Ostriker, Sharon Olds, and Lucille Clifton, among others—she has published an anthology of contemporary American poetry, Nuovi Poeti Americani (Einaudi, 2006). She lives in Florence and teaches writing at NYU-Florence.
Vonani Bila
Vonani Bila (South Africa) is a poet, founding editor of the poetry journal Timbila, publisher of Timbila Books, curator of the Vhembe International Poetry festival, and founder of Timbila Writers’ Village and lecturer in English at the University of Limpopo. His poetry books include Handsome Jita and Bilakhulu! Longer Poems.
Photo by Amit Manndiv>Nino Biniashvili
Nino Biniashvili (b. 1980, Georgia) lives and works in Jerusalem. Her graphic novel, On the Edge of the Black Sea, won the 2018 Israel Museum’s award for best illustrated book. Her illustrations have been featured in the Swiss newspaper Das Magazin, the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation (Brandenburg, Potsdam), the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, and more.
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was born in Massachussetts. Her father died when she was very young, and as a result of the heartbreak, her mother was committed to an institution in 1916. Bishop never reunited with her mother and was subsequently raised by her grandparents. Though she dabbled with poetry while in school, Bishop left home to attend Vassar College for music composition in 1929. After suffering a bout of stage fright, she changed her focus to English literature. Following her graduation from college, Bishop spent the rest of her life traveling, writing poetry, and teaching at various colleges around the United States. She is the 1976 laureate of the Neustadt Prize.
Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui (Diné) is the author of Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is of the Bįį’bítóó’nii’ Tódi’chii’nii clan and is born for the Tlizilłani’ clan. He is from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. His honors include the 2011 Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship for Literature, a PEN Open Book Award, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui lives in Missoula, Montana, and teaches for the MFA writing programs of the University of Montana and the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Chantal Bizzini
Chantal Bizzini, poet, photographer, and translator, lives in Paris. Her poems have been translated into English, Spanish, Italian, and modern Greek. A selected poems was published as Disenchanted City (La ville désenchantée) in a bilingual edition by Black Widow Press.
Ben Black
Ben Black has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches English and creative writing in the Bay Area. His work has been published in the Southampton Review, New American Writing, Cream City Review, Harpur Palate, and the Los Angeles Review. His stories have been finalists for the Calvino Prize, the Vonnegut Prize, the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and the Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose. He is also an assistant fiction editor at AGNI.
William Black
William Black teaches creative writing at the Johns Hopkins University. His stories have appeared in The Sun, Southern Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.
Lily Blackburn
Lily Blackburn is a writer based in Portland, Oregon, where she is also an editor for Typehouse Literary and a workshop facilitator for the nonprofit artist community The People’s Colloquium. She writes book reviews, memoir, and flash.
Kimberly Blaeser
Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe) is past Wisconsin Poet Laureate, a professor at UW–Milwaukee, and MFA faculty member for IAIA. Blaeser is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Apprenticed to Justice, and editor of Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. Her current project combines her photography and poetry in a new form she calls “picto-poems.”
Ana Blandiana
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of communism. In recognition of her contribution to European culture and her valiant fight for human and civil rights, Blandiana was awarded the Légion d’Honneur (2009), and the US State Department distinguished her with the Romanian Women of Courage Award (2014). She won the European Poet of Freedom Prize (Gdansk, 2016) for My Native Land A4 (2010), published in English by Bloodaxe.
Gloria Blizzard
Gloria Blizzard is the author of Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, a diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion. Her work has won the Malahat Review’s Open Season Creative Nonfiction prize and been nominated for the Queen Mary Wasafiri Life Writing Prize and the Pushcart Prize.
