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Described by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans have never heard of,” Lyn Coffin (b. 1943) is a prolific contempo…
Interviews
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August 6, 2024Maureen Freely (left) & Funda Soysal (right) Maureen Freely is an author, translator, and professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. Among her many…
August 1, 2024Right photo by formulanone / Flickr T. R. Hummer, as he is known professionally but Terry to his wide group of friends, has enjoyed a remarkably multifaceted literary career over the course…
July 23, 2024Zhang Ling is the author of ten novels, including A Single Swallow (trans. Shelly Bryant) and Where Waters Meet, the first two novels in her Children of War trilogy. Focusing on…
July 17, 2024On March 26, 2024, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop co-sponsored an event at Yu and Me Books to celebrate the New York City launch of Parul Kapur’s debut novel, Inside the Mirror (Univers…
July 9, 2024Charlotte Collins (left) and Ruth Martin (photo courtesy of Michael Jershov) With the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona’s project “The Novel as Global Form: Poetic Challenges and…
July 2, 2024Carolina Orloff is a translator, author, and researcher of Latin American literature. In 2016, after obtaining her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, she set up Charco Press, where she serves as ed…
July 2, 2024Leonora Djament has been editorial director of the Argentine publishing house Eterna Cadencia Editora since 2007. She holds a degree in literature from the University of Buenos Aires and is the author…
June 14, 2024Vonani Bila with his mother and his son. Courtesy of Mark Waller, 2010. Vonani Bila (b. 1972) grew up in Shirley Village, Limpopo province, South Africa, from where he used to walk fourteen kilome…
May 16, 2024Photo of Stephanie Pacheco courtesy of The Village Trip On April 20, 2024, Stephanie Pacheco was named the 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate, the eighth person to hold that title. A fierce advocat…
April 30, 2024An epic family saga that spans over one hundred years and two countries, Wendy Chen’s powerful, lyrical debut, Their Divine Fires (Algonquin, forthcoming on May 7, 2024), is about history…
April 22, 2024Photo © Lee Haesoo On March 20, Restless Books published Kim Hye-jin’s Counsel Culture, a novel about a woman’s scapegoating and her path to redemption, translated by Jamie Chang. Hae…
April 16, 2024Ethel Rohan’s second novel, Sing, I, was published by TriQuarterly Books on April 15. The novel’s heroine, Ester Prynn, works in a convenience store in a coastal California town. A masked…
March 26, 2024Rigoberto González / Photo by Mahsa Hojjati Recently, I scheduled a zoom call with my friends Bright Ikenna Uwandu and Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma with the cryptic agenda of “catching up.” The meetin…
February 22, 2024Katie Gee Salisbury first came across Anna May Wong when she was doing a college internship and found an old black-and-white photo of the starlet from almost a century earlier. This image would fo…
February 20, 2024Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc. Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was published on February 20 by Bloomsbury. In th…
December 6, 2023Two-time Pushcart Prize nominee Miho Kinnas recently published Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias, her third book of poetry. Her two other collections, Today, Fish Only (2015)…
November 29, 2023Darlington Chibueze Anuonye and his mother, July 2005, on the occasion of Anuonye’s primary school graduation Darlington Chibueze Anuonye, a writer and the nonfiction editor of…
October 25, 2023Photo by Harrikrisna Anenden Ananda Devi is a noted francophone poet, writer, ethnologist, translator, and occasional scriptwriter for the movie adaptations to her short stories and novels. B…
October 17, 2023Storyteller Toni Ann Johnson uses her skills as an actor, playwright, and fiction writer to tell powerful stories of race, reconciliation, and the effects of lingering racism. She is award-winning on…
October 11, 2023Dewaine Farria belongs to the world. As a US Marine, he served in Jordan and Ukraine, and spent much of his professional life working for the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS),…
September 18, 2023Photo © Laura Malmivaara A deadly curse, mythical creatures, and a murder investigation: in Juhani Karila’s English-language debut, Fishing for the Little Pike, a young woman has…
September 11, 2023Born and raised in Khammam, a small town in the state of Telangana, India, Nishanth Injam published The Best Possible Experience, his debut short-story collection, in July 2023. He immigrated…
Finding Hope in Language Revitalization: A Conversation with The Language Conservancy’s Wilhelm Meya
August 31, 2023Children from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc, Colorado, study the Ute language using new e-learning platform Nuuwayga created by The Language Conservancy / Photo courtesy of TLC On Augus…
August 30, 2023Dr. Cornel West / Courtesy of AAE Speakers Cornel West, who recently retired from Princeton University as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, vis…
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