Poet and writer Flávio de Araújo comes from a family of caiçara fishermen living in the Praia do Sono community (Paraty/RJ-Brasil). His first book, Zangareio, was published by Off Flip Press in 2008. His poems have been translated into English and Spanish, published on websites, in literary journals, and in anthologies, including Waxwing, Guernica, Two […]
francine j. harris is a 2015 NEA fellow whose second book, play dead (Alice James Books, 2016), has received early praise on such noted lists as Publishers Weekly and in American Poets. Her first collection, allegiance (Wayne State University Press, 2012), was a finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery and PEN Open Book Award, and recent work has […]
Claudia Rojas is a production assistant at the Teatro Colón’s Institute of Performing Arts (Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón). Incursions in translation work have long accompanied her professional endeavors, assisting professionals in the task of having their work available to English speaking readers and academics. Her translation work has served professors in the […]
Chloe Honum is the author of The Tulip-Flame (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014), which was selected by Tracy K. Smith for the 2013 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. The Tulip-Flame won Foreword Review’s Poetry Book of the Year Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Best First Book of Poetry Award, and was named […]
Jamaal May is the author Hum (Alice James Books, 2013) and The Big Book of Exit Strategies (Alice James Books, 2016). His first collection received a Lannan Foundation Grant, American Library Association’s Notable Book Award, and was named a finalist for the Tufts Discovery Award and an NAACP Image Award. Jamaal’s other honors include a […]
Diego Alfaro Palma (Limache, Chile, 1984) is a poet and editor. He is the author of two poetry books: Paseantes (2009, Ediciones del Temple) and Tordo, winner of the Santiago Literary Prize 2015 (Editorial Cuneta, 2014). He edited Homage to Ezra Pound (Universitaria, 2010) and the Collected Poems of Cecilia Casanova (Universidad de Valparaíso, […]
Katherine E. Young is the author of Day of the Border Guards, 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist, and translator of Two Poems by Inna Kabysh. Young’s translations of Xenia Emelyanova and Inna Kabysh won third prize in the Joseph Brodsky-Stephen Spender competitions in 2014 and 2011, respectively; a full-length collection of Inna Kabysh’s […]
Xenia Emelyanova was born in Moscow in 1988. In 2012 she graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute. She has been published in Iunost’, Arion, and the almanac Piat’iu piat’. In 2014 she was long-listed for the PEN International New Voices Award. At the end of 2014 she received the Anna Akhmatova prize from Iunost’. […]