Authors

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.

Sara Bielecki

Sara Bielecki is a graduate of the University of Oxford, NYU, and UCL’s School of Eastern European and Slavonic Studies. She teaches at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, reviews books for Publishers Weekly, and independently researches Polish literature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.” 

Jen Rickard Blair

Jen Rickard Blair is the art and web director at World Literature Today.

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.

Jonathan Blum

Jonathan Blum is the author of several short stories and Last Word, a novella featured on The Huffington Post, KCRW's Bookworm, and Iowa Public Radio. He is the recipient of a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

Susan Blumberg-Kason

Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of the cross-cultural memoir Good Chinese Wife and the co-editor of a collection of short stories, Hong Kong Noir. She is a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, and her work has also appeared in the South China Morning Post, PopMatters, and the Los Angeles Review of Books’s China Channel.

Robert Bly

Robert Bly is an internationally recognized poet, translator, and editor. His most recent books include Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (W.W. Norton) and Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life (White Pine). His collected poems are forthcoming from Norton. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Ruth.

Leo Boix

Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet born in Argentina who lives and works in the UK. His debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was awarded the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. He received the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize, the Keats-Shelley Prize, and a PEN Award. Photo by Naomi Woodis

Robert Bonazzi

Robert Bonazzi is the author of Man in the Mirror: The Story of Black Like Me (Orbis, 1997) and afterwords to John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (Penguin, 2010). Other books include Awakened by Surprise (fiction, Lamar University, 2016), Outside the Margins (essays, Wings, 2015), plus five books of poetry.

Cynthia Bond

Tanella Boni

Tanella Boni is one of the most prominent figures in modern African literature. Boni’s 2004 novel Matins de couvre-feu received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize. In 2009 she won the Antonio Viccaro International Poetry Prize. The poem here is from Là où il fait si clair en moi, winner of the 2018 Prix Théophile Gautier from the French Academy.

Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy (born 24 June 1923) is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher. His works have been of great importance in post-war French literature, at the same time poetic and theoretical, examining the meaning of the spoken and written word. He has also published a number of translations, most notably Shakespeare as well as several works on art and art history, including Miró and Giacometti.

Piedad Bonnett

Piedad Bonnett (b. 1951), one of Colombia’s most celebrated writers, has been widely recognized as a leading voice in contemporary Latin American poetry. She is the author of several award-winning collections, including Los habitados (The haunted, 2016) and the highly acclaimed Lo que no tiene nombre (That which has no name, 2013).

Xavier Bordes

Xavier Bordes is a French poet and translator born in Arc-en-Argens. He’s the author of twenty collections, most recently L’Astragalizonte et autres poèmes, published by Traversées in 2016. His collection Comme un bruit de source, published by Gallimard, won the Max Jacob prize in 1999. He has translated Greek poets including Odysseus Elytis, C. P. Cavafy, and Manolis Anagnostakis.

Phil Borges

For more than thirty years Phil Borges has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, striving to create an understanding of the challenges they face. His work is exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and his award-winning books include, most recently, Tibet: Culture on the Edge. He has hosted television documentaries on indigenous cultures for Discovery and National Geographic. In 2004 Phil was honored with a Lucie at the International Photography Awards for his humanitarian work. He lectures and teaches internationally, and his current projects focus on social and economic gender issues in the developing world.