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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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Martin Zotta
As an undergraduate, Martin Zotta assisted Richard Kostelanetz in the production of Simultaneous Translations (Cornerstone Press, Arnold, MO, 2008), in which Ramon’s famously short, single-sentence texts appear directly above English translations typeset to be identical in horizontal length.... -
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Marouchka Payen
Marouchka Payen is a Belgian graphic designer, member of Bye Bye Binary collective, and DJ. She focuses her practice on open source type design and research into queer/feminist circles in the graphic and musical fields. (Photo Credit: Kiosk Radio)... -
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Cesare Pavese
...The bulk of Pavese’s work appeared between the end of the war and his death. Partly through the influence of Melville, Pavese became preoccupied with myth, symbol, and archetype. One of his most striking books is Dialoghi con Leucò (1947; Dialogues with Leucò, 1965), poetically written conversations about the human condition. The novel considered his best, La luna e i falò (1950; The Moon and the Bonfires, 1950), is a bleak yet compassionate story of a hero who tries to find himself by visiting the place in which he grew up. Several other works are notable, especially La bella estate... -
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Gaby Brimmer
Gaby Brimmer is a Mexican-Jewish disability-rights activist with cerebral palsy. Gaby’s parents escaped from Nazi Austria and eventually arrived in Mexico City, where Gaby was born with profound cerebral palsy. She communicated by typing on an electric typewriter with the big toe of her left foot (the only part of her body that she could control) or by using her foot to point to letters on a “writing board.” Though able to utter sounds, Gaby did not speak. She teamed up with renowned Mexican novelist and journalist Elena Poniatowska to write the bestseller Gaby Brimmer (1979), a book about her... -
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Claudia Ulloa Donoso
Claudia Ulloa Donoso has been recognized by critics and readers as one of the most original and surprising voices in Peruvian literature. In 2017, she was included in the Bogotá39, a list of the best Latin American fiction writers under forty that also includes Valeria Luiselli, Juan Cardenas, and Eduardo Rabasa. She currently lives north of the Arctic circle in Bødo, Norway, where she teaches Spanish and Norwegian.... -
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Khet Mar
Khet Mar is a Burmese journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist who writes about the lives of ordinary people and the current situation in Burma. Initially trained as a chemist, Mar embarked on a writing career and published the novel Wild Snowy Night, four collections of short stories, three volumes of essays, and a translation of I Am Malala. She participated in the prestigious International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and the International Writers’ Workshop at Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong. She has been a featured writer at the PEN World Voices Festival, and... -
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Zoya Marincheva
A native of Bulgaria, Zoya Marincheva moved to the U.S. in 2000. Her academic background is in Bulgarian Philology and English, and her curiosity in global affairs has driven her into occasional forays into economics and law. A poet and successful literary translator, she is determined to make Bulgarian voices heard in the world. Her translations and original work, including book reviews, have appeared in both Bulgarian and U.S. publications, among them Two Lines, Washington Square Review, Zoland Poetry, Liternet, and in the anthology Thresholds. She is currently working on a collection of poetry and a book of nonfiction.... -
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Nkiacha Atemnkeng
Nkiacha Atemnkeng is a writer from Cameroon. His work was published in the 2015 Caine Prize anthology Lusaka Punk and Other Stories, Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa, Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon by Bakwa Books, as well as The Africa Report, This Is Africa, The Johannesburg Review of Books, The Guardian Longread, Longreads, Porter House Review, among others. He is a Goethe Institut/Sylt Foundation writing residency winner, and a 2021 Art Omi fellow in New York. Nkiacha Atemnkeng earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University, where he is currently employed as a... -
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Jazmina Barrera
...books in Spanish: Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra and the children’s book, Los nombres de los animales and Punto de cruz. Her books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Portuguese Italian and French. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing in 2013. Cuaderno de faros was long listed for the von Rezzori award. The English version of Cuaderno de faros, On Lighthouses, (Two Lines Press, 2020) was chosen for the Indie Next list by Indie Bound. Linea Nigra was a finalist for...