Authors
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Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930), a poet, historian, literary critic, and essayist, was born in Bridgetown, the capital city of Barbados. Brathwaite spent his childhood in Barbados but would spend his adult life traveling, learning, and teaching all over the globe. He attended Harrison University in Barbados and Pembroke College in Cambridge, England, where he graduated with honors in 1953. After graduating from Cambridge, Brathwaite embarked on a journey to Ghana where he worked in Ghana's Ministy of Education for more than ten years. Brathwaite familiarized himself with Ghanaian traditional verse and pre-colonial African myths, which would be influencial to his own writing. Later on, he earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sussex in 1968. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of the West Indies, and New York University. He won the 1994 Neustadt Prize.
Juliette Bretan
Juliette Bretan is a writer and PhD student at the University of Cambridge, where she researches depictions of Poland and east central Europe in modernist literature. She has previously written for The Public Domain Review, Engelsberg Ideas, Arts Desk, and more.
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst’s classic The Elements of Typographic Style (4th ed., 2012) has just appeared in French translation. His other books include A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. His latest publication is a volume of poems, The Ridge (2023).
Trevino L. Brings Plenty
Trevino L. Brings Plenty is a poet, musician, and multimedia video artist who lives, works, and writes in Portland, Oregon. He has read/performed his work at poetry festivals as far away as Amman, Jordan, and close to his home base at Portland’s Wordstock Festival. In 2015 Trevino was the C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship recipient.
Monica Brown
Monica Brown is an award-winning children’s book author of thirty books for children, including Frida and Her Animalitos, Waiting for the Biblioburro / Esperando al Biblioburro, Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/no combina, Sharuko: El Arqueólogo Peruano / Peruvian Archeologist Julio C. Tello, and the Lola Levine chapter book series. Dr. Brown’s books have garnered multiple starred reviews and have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is professor of English at Northern Arizona University.
Keith Brown
Keith Brown is director of the Melikian Center at Arizona State University, recently recognized by the Department of Education as a National Resource Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. He is an anthropologist whose work focuses on the western Balkans and was a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2021–22.
Beth Brown Preston
Beth Brown Preston is a poet and novelist with two collections of poetry from the Broadside Lotus Press and two chapbooks of poetry, including Oxygen II (Moonstone Press, 2022). She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Writing Program of Goddard College. She has been a CBS Fellow in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bread Loaf Scholar. Her work has been recognized by the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, the Writer’s Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and by the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in many literary and scholarly journals and magazines.
Andrea Bryant
Andrea Bryant is a PhD candidate (ABD) in German at Georgetown University. Combining insights from critical discourse analysis, critical race theory, and culturally sustaining pedagogy, her dissertation project interrogates how discourses of diversity affect representation and treatment of Blackness in the teaching of German language(s) and literature(s) in the United States.
Photo by Tammy Streetsdiv>Jeanne Bryner
Jeanne Bryner was born in Appalachia and grew up in Newton Falls, Ohio. A practicing registered nurse, she is a graduate of Trumbull Memorial’s School of Nursing and Kent State University’s Honors College. She has received writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council (1997, 2007), and Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed in Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Kentucky, and Edinburgh, Scotland. With the support of Hiram College’s Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities, her nursing poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed by Verb Ballets, Cleveland, Ohio. She has a new play, Foxglove Canyon, and her books in print are Breathless, Blind Horse: Poems, Eclipse: Stories, Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated and Remembered, No Matter How Many Windows, The Wedding of Miss Meredith Mouse, and Smoke: Poems, which received an American Journal of Nursing 2012 Book of the Year Award.
Ahlam Bsharat
Ahlam Bsharat is a Palestinian novelist, poet, children’s author, and teacher of creative writing. She is a prominent and highly regarded author in the Arab world and internationally. Her books have been included in IBBY lists, shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award (UK), and finalists for the Etisalat Award for Children’s Literature (UAE).
Mark Budman
Mark Budman (markbudman.com) is a writer, inventor, engineer, translator, interpreter, and photographer. He is the publisher of the flash-fiction magazine Vestal Review and the author of the novel My Life at First Try. Born in the former Soviet Union, he now lives in Boston.
Irene Bulla
Irene Bulla is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Oklahoma. She is interested in representations of the supernatural and the monstrous in modern and contemporary fiction. She serves as contributing editor for Italian at World Literature Today and works as a literary translator.
Photo by David Hawediv>Nina Bunjevac
Nina Bunjevac is an illustrator and comic book author. She started her art training in Yugoslavia and then moved to Toronto, Canada.
Photo by Thoraya El-Rayyesdiv>Hisham Bustani
Hisham Bustani (b. 1975, Amman, Jordan) writes fiction and has three published collections of short fiction: Of Love and Death (2008), The Monotonous Chaos of Existence (2010), and The Perception of Meaning (2012). The German review Inamo has chosen him as one of the Arab world’s emerging and influential new writers, translating one of his stories into German for its special issue on “New Arab Literature” (December 2009, www.inamo.de). Acclaimed for his contemporary themes, style, and language, he experiments with the boundaries of narration and poetry. He was recently featured in the March/April 2012 issue of Poets & Writers.
Rumena Bužarovska
Rumena Bužarovska is the author of three short-story collections: Čkrtki (Scribbles, 2007), Osmica (Wisdom tooth, Blesok, 2010), and Mojot maž (My husband, 2014). She is a literary translator from English into Macedonian, and her translations include Lewis Carroll, J. M. Coetzee, Truman Capote, and Richard Gwyn. She is assistant professor of American literature at the State University of Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia, where she was born in 1981.
PHOTO: Carolyn Forchédiv>James Byrne
James Byrne is a poet, editor, visual artist and translator living in the northwest of England. He co-edited Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets (Arc Publications / Northern Illinois Press, 2012) and I Am a Rohingya: Poems from the Camps and Beyond in 2019 (Arc). His conversation with Mayyu Ali appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of WLT, along with selected Rohingya poetry.
Wendy Call
Wendy Call is co-editor of two anthologies, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide and Best Literary Translations, author of the award-winning book No Word for Welcome, and translator of three poetry collections. She lives in Seattle and Oaxaca.
