Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Caio Fernando Abreu (1948–1996), one of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of the 1980s, was the author of twelve story collections and two novels. He has been awarded major literary prizes, including the prestigious Jabuti Prize a total of three times.
Jorgenrique Adoum (Ambato, Ecuador, 1926–2009) was a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. He published fourteen books of poetry during his lifetime and was showered in superlatives by Nobel Prize–winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (who dubbed him the "best poet of his generation in Latin America"). Despite such accolades, his work is absolutely unknown in the English-speaking world.
David Brooks is an Australian poet, essayist, and fiction writer, most recently of Open House (poetry, 2015), Napoleon's Roads (short fiction, 2016), both University of Queensland Press; Derrida's Breakfast (essays, 2016) and The Grass Library, a meditation on animal rights (2019), both from Brandl & Schlesinger. He is an honorary associate professor in Australian literature at the University of Sydney and was the 2015–16 Australia Council Fellow in Fiction. A vegan and animal rights advocate, he lives with rescued sheep in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Medal of the Arts, the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, and the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Her novel The House on Mango Street has been translated into over twenty languages and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation. Sandra Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and earns her living by her pen.
Bruna Dantas Lobato received her MFA in fiction from New York University and her MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa. Her writing and translations from Portuguese have appeared in Harvard Review, A Public Space, BOMB, the Common, and elsewhere. She is a 2018 A Public Space Fellow and a 2019 PEN/Heim winner.
Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty-two collections of poetry and numerous other works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and criticism. Dawes is Glenna Luschia editor of Prairie Schooner, a chancellor for the Academy of American Poets, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2019, Dawes was a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry.
Carolyn Forché is the author of four poetry collections, and most recently, the memoir What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Windham-Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Library at Yale University. She is university professor at Georgetown University. In March 2020, Penguin Press will publish her fifth poetry collection, In the Lateness of the World.
Aminatta Forna is an essayist, novelist, and memoirist. She is the winner of a Windham-Campbell Award from Yale University, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and has been a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, the Orange Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, and the IMPAC Award. Her latest novel is Happiness (Grove, 2018), and she is currently working on an essay collection. Aminatta is director of the Lannan Center at Georgetown University and professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.
Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012), and a person who stutters. His poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Diane Glancy teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her latest books are The Collector of Bodies, Concern for Syria and the Middle East, It Was Over There by That Place, and The Book of Bearings. Her other books and awards are on her website: www.dianeglancy.com.
Duriel E. Harris is a poet, sound artist, scholar, and author of multigenre works, including Thingification, her one-woman theatrical performance, and three...
