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  • Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels.



  • Bibiana Camacho

    Bibiana Camacho (b. Mexico City, 1974) is a former ballerina, editor, translator, and bookbinder. Her novels are Tras las huellas de mi olvido (2010) and Lobo (2017); her collections of short stories are Tu ropa en mi armario (2010) and La sonámbula (2014). In 2007 she received an honorable mention in the Juan Rulfo First Novel Prize for Tras las huellas de mi olvido. Her grandmother always seemed to her a great literary figure, so she writes using her name.



  • Lauren Camp

    Lauren Camp is the author of four books, most recently Turquoise Door. She is the recipient of the Dorset Prize, a fellowship from Black Earth Institute, and a finalist citation for the Arab American Book Award. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.



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    Crystal Z Campbell

    Crystal Z Campbell is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and experimental filmmaker of African American, Filipino, and Chinese descents who hails from Oklahoma. Campbell’s hybrid essays and poems have been published in Hyperallergic, GARAGE, Monday Journal, and World Literature Today. Campbell is currently a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center Fellow (2020–2021).


  • Can Xue

    Can Xue (b. 1953) is a Chinese writer and literary critic. She is the author of numerous novels, volumes of literary criticism, and short works of fiction. She currently lives in Beijing.



  • Merve Çanak

    Merve Çanak was born in 1994 and grew up in Istanbul. She studied English language and literature at Yeditepe University and published her first poetry book, Hiçölüm, in 2018. She has worked at Norgunk Publishing House as an editor and is passionate about avant-garde and experimental writing.



  • Norma Cantú

    Norma E. Cantú currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio. She recently received the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. She is the author of the award-winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera. She has published poetry in a number of venues including Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, and the Latina/Chicana Studies Journal. Her novel Cabañuelas, A Love Story will be out in spring 2019. She is cofounder of CantoMundo, a space for Latin@, poets and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.



  • Matías Capelli

    Matías Capelli (b. 1982, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He has published two books of short stories, two novels, and has directed a documentary essay about monuments and politics in Buenos Aires.


  • Paola Capriolo

    Paola Capriolo (b. 1962) is an Italian novelist, a reviewer for Corriere della Sera, and a translator of German fiction. Her own work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch, and Japanese.



  • Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr

    Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr is Professor of German (emerita) at Temple University. Having taught in Italy, Great Britain, and the US, Caputo-Mayr has published works on German, English, and Italian literature. She is the founder of the Kafka Society of America and the editor and director of its journal. An author of publications of poetry, prose, and plays, she was also the principal author of the first bilingual, annotated Kafka bibliography, together with Julius M. Herz.



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    Arlene Carballo Figueroa

    Arlene Carballo Figueroa (b. 1961) is the author of the anthology of stories women who behave MAL (2013), awarded second place in the International Latino Book Awards (ILBA) of 2016. She has published two children’s books and won the National Youth Literature Prize of the PEN Club of Puerto Rico with her youth novel, Indóciles (2018), selected by El Nuevo Día as one of the best books of the year and winner of an honorable mention at the ILBA (2019).



  • Joseph A. Cárdenas

    Joseph A. Cárdenas is an MFA student at the University of California Riverside. He is the son of Los Angeles and inmigrantes.



  • Hélène Cardona

    Hélène Cardona is the author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press), and Life in Suspension (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2016). Her translations include Ce que nous portons (Éditions du Cygne), based on What We Carry, by Dorianne Laux; and Beyond Elsewhere, by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac (forthcoming from White Pine Press in 2016). She holds a master’s in American literature from the Sorbonne, taught at Hamilton College and LMU, and received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut and Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. She co-edits Dublin Poetry Review, Levure Littéraire, and Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics.



  • Cezanne Cardona Morales

    Cezanne Cardona Morales  (b. 1982, Dorado) is a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and columnist. In 2018 he published Levittown mon amour, a short-story collection, and won the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra and the National Prize of Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña. His short stories have also been included in various anthologies and adapted for theater performances.



  • Erica N. Cardwell

    Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator based in Brooklyn and Toronto. Cardwell has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Queer Art Mentorship. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough.



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    Alice-Catherine Carls

    Alice-Catherine Carls is Tom Elam Distinguished Professor of History (emeritus) at the University of Tennessee at Martin. An internationally published diplomatic and cultural historian of twentieth-century Europe, she is also a translator and literary critic. She serves on several editorial boards and commissions in the United States and abroad.


  • Matt Carney

    Matt Carney is the online editor for Oklahoma Gazette, Oklahoma City's alt-weekly newspaper. A 2011 graduate of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, he worked as an editorial intern for WLT during his last semester of college. He resides in Norman, Oklahoma.



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    Anna Maria Carpi

    A lifelong Milanese, Anna Maria Carpi (annamariacarpi.org) has won awards for her translations of twentieth-century German poets and also for her own poetry, which she began publishing in 1993. In 2016 Marcos y Marcos published her collected poems as E io che intanto parlo. Besides poetry, she has written essays, stories, and four novels.


  • Emmanuel Carrère

    Emmanuel Carrère (b. 1957) is a French author, screenwriter, and director. Many of his works have been made into films, one of which (La Moustache, 2005) he personally directed.



  • Roberto Carretta

    Roberto Carretta is a contemporary Italian philosopher, writer, and translator who lives in his native Turin. 



  • Clint Carroll

    Clint Carroll (Cherokee Nation) is an associate professor of Native American and Indigenous studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He works at the intersections of Indigenous studies, anthropology, and political ecology, with an emphasis on Cherokee environmental governance and land-based resurgence.


  • Anne Carson

    Anne Carson (b. 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics.


  • Monica Carter

    Monica Carter is project coordinator for Lambda Literary Foundation’s LGBT Writers in Schools program. She is also a judge for the Best Translated Book award and curates her own website, Salonica World Lit, dedicated to international literature. Her fiction has appeared in Strange Cargo, The Rattling Wall, Black Clock, Bloom, and Cactus Heart. She is finishing her novel, In the Life.



  • Fabián Casas

    Born in the Boedo area of Buenos Aires, Fabián Casas is a poet, narrator, essayist, journalist, and one of the outstanding figures of Argentina’s “90’s generation.” He studied philosophy and edited the poetry journal 18 Whiskys, which had a major impact on the Buenos Aires literary scene. In 2007 he received Germany’s prestigious Anna Seghers Prize. 



  • Marie Casimir

    As the curator of public programs and performance at Oklahoma Contemporary, Marie Casimir leads the development of exhibition and contemporary art-related programming that emphasizes diversity, innovation, collaboration, and community. She brings thirteen years of experience and a passion for engaging artists and community members across imaginary borders, both geographic and social, through art. She is an arts administrator, producer, multidisciplinary performing artist, and educator, and she has been an adjunct lecturer in the Clara Luper Department of African & African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Marie received a Heartland Emmy nomination for I Dream of Greenwood, her most recent collaboration with World Literature Today. Her dance films have been featured in several festivals, including Austin Dance Festival, Dancecinema (Vancouver), DOSABMA, DANCE@30FPS, and Greensboro Dance Film Festival. Casimir’s staged works have been featured at various venues in the US, including Links Hall, Constellation, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, the Music Box Village, Oklahoma Contemporary, and the University of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of a Ragdale Artist Fellowship and a past SixTwelve Artist in Residency.



  • Mario Castells

    Mario Castells is a writer and the sea’s kin. According to his own internal jurisdiction, he does not recognize himself as Argentine or Paraguayan but as neo-Guaraní; he feels at home in his tekoha (community), where there are mountains, estuaries, marshes, rivers, and reedbeds: all the wetland flora and fauna. 


  • Roberto Castillo Udiarte

    Roberto Castillo Udiarte is one of Mexico’s most important and controversial contemporary poets; he was also the first to translate Charles Bukowski’s work into Spanish. His poetry unflinchingly reflects the landscape and language of the border, specifically Tijuana. He is the author of half a dozen collections of poetry, including his selected poems, Nuestras vidas son otras, published in Spain by Aullido Libros. He currently resides in Playas Tijuana.


  • Raquel Castro

    Raquel Castro Maldonado (b. 1976, Mexico City) is a writer, scriptwriter, professor, and cultural promoter. In 2012 she won the Gran Angular Prize for Young-Adult Literature and is a two-time winner of the National Journalism Prize as part of the production team for OnceTV’s Diálogos en confianza. She is the author of two novels, Ojos llenos de sombra (2012) and Lejos de casa (2013). She writes a weekly column on children’s and young-adult literature for La Jornada Aguascalientes and blogs at http://raxxie.com. Castro is married to author Alberto Chimal, whose work appeared in the July 2013 issue of WLT. They live in Mexico City with their cats Primo, Morris, Pulgas, and Beakman.


  • C. P. Cavafy

    C. P. Cavafy (b. 1863, d. 1933) was a Greek poet who worked in Alexandria as a journalist and a civil servant.


  • Patrizia Cavalli

    Patrizia Cavalli (b. 1952) was born in Todi (Umbria) and now lives in Rome. Her first three volumes, Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo (1974), Il cielo (1981), and L'io singolare proprio mio (1992), are collected in Poesie (1974–92) (1992), and were followed by Sempre aperto teatro (1999) and Pigre divinità e pigra sorte (2006). She has also translated plays by Molière and Shakespeare. "La giornata atlantica," the poem translated here, is from her third collection.