Anne Patricia Carson is a Canadian poet,essayist,translator,classicist,and professor.
Monique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn,New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books,and her first novel,The Book of Salt,was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller,and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize,the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written Watermark:Vietnamese American Poetry &Prose,along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi,and numerous essays and works of short fiction.
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel,A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020,she served as the president of PEN America.
Joy Harjo is an American poet,musician,playwright,and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate,the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts,completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976,and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
Yiyun Li is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States. Her short stories and novels have won several awards,including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End, and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose. Her short story collection Wednesday's Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space.
Jennifer Grotz is an American poet and translator who teaches English,creative writing,and literary translation at the University of Rochester,where she is Professor of English. In 2017 she was named the seventh director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American poet,novelist,and writer of children's books.
Brenda Shaughnessy is an Asian American poet most known for her poetry books Our Andromeda and So Much Synth. Her book,Our Andromeda,was named a Library Journal "Book of the Year," one of The New York Times's "100 Best Books of 2013." Additionally,The New York Times and Publishers Weekly named So Much Synth as one of the best poetry collections of 2016. Shaughnessy works as an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing program at Rutgers University–Newark.
Victoria Chang is an American poet,writer,editor,and critic. She has experimented with different styles of writing,including writing obituaries for parts of her life,including her parents and herself,in Obit,letters in Dear Memory:Letters on Writing,Silence,and Grief,and a Japanese form known as waka in The Trees Witness Everything. In all of her poems and books,Chang has several common themes:living as an Asian-American woman,depression,and dealing with loss and grief. She has also written two books for children.
Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican-American author. She is the author of the book of essays Sidewalks and the novel Faces in the Crowd,which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award,and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Fiction,and she was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul in Montreal,Quebec. Luiselli's books have been translated into more than 20 languages,with her work appearing in publications including,The New York Times,Granta,McSweeney's,and The New Yorker. Her book Tell Me How It Ends:An Essay in 40 Questions was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Luiselli's 2019 novel,Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Jennifer Chang is an Asian American poet and scholar.
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ is a Nigerian writer. Her 2017 debut novel,Stay With Me,won the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Prix Les Afriques. She was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture in 2017.
Yewande Omotoso is a South African-based novelist,architect and designer,who was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria. She currently lives in Johannesburg. Her two published novels have earned her considerable attention,including winning the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author,being shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize,the M-Net Literary Awards 2012,and the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature,and being longlisted for the 2017 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. She is the daughter of Nigerian writer Kole Omotoso,and the sister of filmmaker Akin Omotoso.
Lauren Camp is an Arab American poet. As New Mexico Poet Laureate,she has been honored with a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. In 2022,she was selected as Astronomer in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park.
Kaya Press is an independent non-profit publisher of writers of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. Founded in 1994 by the postmodern Korean writer Soo Kyung Kim,Kaya Press is housed in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Jennifer Elise Foerster is a poet,writer,and teacher. She has published three poetry books and served as Associate Editor for When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through,A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020),and has been published in numerous journal publications and anthologies. Her 2013 book Leaving Tulsa was a finalist for the shortlist of the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award.
Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist from the Southwestern United States. She is the author of five full-length poetry collections and three novels. Her novel Trinity Sight won The Southwest Book Award in 2020.
Michael Harlow is a poet,publisher,editor and librettist. A recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (1986) and the University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship (2009),he has twice been a poetry finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards. In 2018 he was awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement,alongside playwright Renée and critic and curator Wystan Curnow Harlow has published 12 books of poetry and one book on writing poetry.
Suzanne Mallouk is a Canadian-born painter,psychiatrist,and psychoanalyst,based in New York City. She is best known for her role within a core of East Village creatives in the 1980s and for her relationship with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,much of which her friend Jennifer Clement chronicled in Widow Basquiat:A Memoir. In 2015,Vogue magazine listed Basquiat and Mallouk among "The 21 Most Stylish Art World Couples of All Time."
Marianna Kiyanovska is a Ukrainian poet,translator and a literary scholar and is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize (2020) and the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2022) for the poetry book The Voices of Babyn Yar. She is a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine and the Ukrainian PEN.
