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Yalitza Ferreras
Yalitza Ferreras is a Dominican American writer and recent Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University; fellowships and awards from Yaddo, Ucross, Djerassi, Hawthornden Foundation, Tin House, and Voices of Our Nation. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Kenyon Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Aster(ix), The Southern Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.... -
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Carla Pantoja
Carla Pantoja, born and raised in the South Bay, is an actor, fight director, teaching artist, intimacy director, and mom of two. She has been a Resident Artist of San Francisco Shakespeare Festival since 2014 and recently served as Director of Vision for the 2021 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, directing episodes 2 and 4. In 2020, she was in the acting company at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, returning in 2022 as the festival’s first female fight director. Carla is an associate instructor for Dueling Arts International and serves on their governing body as Vice... -
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Howard Norman
For his work in translation, Howard Norman received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Wenner-Grenn Fellowship, and the Harold Morton Landon Prize in Translation from the Academy of American Poets. His works of translation include Northern Tales (Patheon Folklore and Fairy Tale Library) and in an arctic memoir, In Fond Remembrance of Me. He has served on over 30 panels on translation in Amsterdam, London, Toronto, New York, and elsewhere. He is the author of novels, memoirs, and books for children, teaches in the MFA program at the... -
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984), one the greatest Urdu poets, was born in Sialkot, India, now part of Pakistan. He had a privileged childhood, studying Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. He received degrees in Arabic and English, and began a teaching career after graduation. Faiz’s early poems were conventional, lighthearted treatises on love and beauty, but while in Lahore he began to expand into themes of politics and community. He soon married Alys George, a British expatriate and convert to Islam, and, in 1942, he left teaching to join the British Indian Army, for which he received a British Empire Medal for... -
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Joan Kunsch
Joan Kunsch is on the classical ballet faculty at Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, where she is also associate director. Guest teaching and choreography have taken her around North America and abroad, particularly to Scandinavia, England, and The Netherlands. She belongs to a teaching team that has produced dancers for over fifty professional companies touring worldwide, and her choreography comprises over sixty works for concert stage, television, sacred space, and outdoor sites. An artist and writer, Joan Kunsch has had work published in the U.S.A., Norway, England, and India. She translates contemporary Norwegian poets, presents readings in Norwegian as well... -
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Eula Biss
Eula Biss is the author of three books: On Immunity: An Inoculation, a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction; Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award for criticism, and a collection of poetry, The Balloonists. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, an NEA Literature Fellowship, and a Jaffe Writers’ Award. She holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and a M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired... -
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Sabine Gruber
Sabine Gruber was born in 1963 in Meran, a city in South Tirol, an ethnically German province of Italy that belonged to Austria until the end of WWII. Gruber has received numerous awards, most recently the grant prize of the 2000 Austrian National Award for Literature, the 2002 Heinrich Heine Fellowship, and the 2004 Elias Canetti Fellowship, and the 2004 Elias Canetti Fellowship. She now lives in Vienna.... -
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Mary Jo Bang
...PEN Voelcker Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published translations of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Purgatorio, and Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz. She is also the co-translator, with Yuki Tanaka, of A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi. Her translation of Paradiso is forthcoming in 2025. She’s received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.... -
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Nigel Hatton
...co-editor of the Critical Refugee Studies Book Series from University of California Press. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, and the Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany and worked as a visiting professional in the President’s Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Dr Hatton’s research, service, and teaching center on human beings as variously conceived of, in, and between literature and philosophy, and the ways in which these ethical and aesthetic... -
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Alexis N. Garcia
Alexis N. Garcia is a t-boy poet & educator dreaming against the state. Their cross-discipline experiments glitch traditional poetic form to construct trans time & non-linear meaning-making. Their poems and hybrid experiments have been featured in The Hopkins Review, Poem-A-Day, beestung, Apogee Journal, The Slowdown, and The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext, among others. He has received fellowships from The Outpost Foundation, Jack Jones Literary Arts, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. Garcia’s first book, IN MY FANTASY, I BELONG, is forthcoming from Host Publications in March 2027. When they aren’t teaching, you can find them at their local library...