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I first collaborated with poet Natalie Diaz in 2017, when she wrote the introductory essay for a catalog I edited for Visualizing Language. This Pacific Stand…
Interviews
Portrait of Zisis D. Ainalis by Alexandros Karavas, pencil, 2018. Zisis D. Ainalis was born in Athens in 1982. A poet, translator, and essayist, his work has been translated into English,…
Photo: Mayu Kanamori Australian novelist Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and immigrated to Australia when she was fourteen. She worked for many years as an editor at Lonely Plan…
Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interpl…
Robin Hemley, ceaseless traveler—or as he calls it, polygamist of place—is the author of fourteen books, former director of the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa, and founder…
Isabel Fargo Cole grew up in New York City, received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1995, and has lived in Berlin ever since as a writer and translator. Her translation of Wolfgang Hilbi…
paintings by taha khalil / acrylic on canvas / courtesy of the artist Over the past several weeks, we corresponded with the multifaceted Rojava writer Taha Khalil, as he worked both in Qamishlo,…
Edel Rodriguez's original sketch designs for Margarita Engle's Enchanted Air. Images courtesy of the author. Emma M. Vandamme: You illustrated the cover and inside d…
Photo by James M. Manyika Sarah Ladipo Manyika has lived a global story that mirrors that of the protagonists in her recently reissued novel, In Dependence. Ladipo Manyika grew u…
Photo © Judy Laing Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese-born writer who moved to Scotland in her mid-twenties and now resides there, where she writes her critically acclaimed fiction in Engl…
Always remember: if you can write the ocean, we will never be silenced. – Craig Santos Perez, @craigsperez The momentum and voice of Craig Santos Perez flame with the opposite of silenc…
Photo © Elena Seibert / Courtesy of Penguin Random House The following excerpt comes from an interview conducted with Cheyenne author Tommy Orange during the 2019 National Conference on R…
What recent book has captured your interest? I just started reading Ocean Vuong’s love letter to his mother, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. What poetry. With whateve…
From the publication of Sur le Champ (1967) to De qui n’a pas de prix (2019), Annie Le Brun’s books invite us to confront an uncompromising thought process that pla…
Photo by April Rocha Laila Lalami is a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. After earning a BA in English from Mohammed V University in Rabat, she m…
Photo: Erin Patrice O'Brien Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), which won the 2016 Vermont Book Award and was hailed in th…
Photo by Márcia Wayna Kambeba At the beginning of June, I interviewed Márcia Wayna Kambeba. Since the United Nations declared 2019 the Year of Indigenous Languages, we s…
Photo: Bruce Hedge David Holmgren is an environmental designer, writer, and co-creator of the permaculture concept, which uses systems theory to create by design the resiliency found in n…
Fallenberg Photo © Cathy Raff Although Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) is arguably Israel’s most important playwright, his work is almost unknown in the English-speaking world. Jessica Cohen and…
Photo: Nina Subin Happiness, Aminatta Forna’s fourth novel, is a complex love letter to London that examines with great delicacy how the city both shelters and challenges the people—and animal…
PHOTO: Melissa Lukenbaugh / Courtesy of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship I had the privilege of having a conversation with the poet Clemonce Heard while he was enjoying a piece of orange-…
View of the Kukupalong refugee camp near Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. Photo: Russell Watkins / UK Department of International Development Mayyu Ali is a young Rohingya poet, writer, and huma…
PHOTO: Zhang Tuo Alai is a prolific and versatile writer in contemporary China, having published poetry, short fiction, novels, and essays for more than thirty years. His novels Red…
Photo by Decado/Pixabay The following interview accompanies the excerpt from Auntie Nabat’s Bread that appears in the Winter 2019 issue of WLT. Poet, playwright, and jou…
Photo: Shevaun Williams Edwidge Danticat writes about death, even the most brutal, with a lyricism that reminds us of a primal paradox—within the deepest violence and loss, the life-force reas…
