Authors

Sindhi scholar, novelist, dramatist, and translator (1853–1929). He wrote Zeenat (1890), widely regarded as the first original Sindhi novel.

Visiting Associate Professor of German and Humanities Fellow in Literary Translation at the University of Richmond. Most recently, he has translated Jenny Erpenbeck’s Things That Disappear and re-translated Hermann Hesse’s The Steppenwolf and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front.

American poet, editor, and librettist.

Tamil poet, journalist, and independence activist (1882–1921).

“Beauty” is Section 6 of Down the Drain—Aperiodic Excursions in the Key of Blue, a shuffaloff pdfbook.

New Orleans–born poet and writer in Oxford, Mississippi. Executive Director of VOX Press and Director of the Mississippi Prison Writes Institute; author of the award-winning collection OLGA and the National Book Award–nominated The Gar Diaries.

Poet, translator, and Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh. Born in Toronto and raised in France, she translates from French and Occitan, including Aurélia Lassaque’s In Search of a Face.

American poet, editor, and critic (b. 1949).

American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor (b. 1952).

American short story writer and novelist (1850–1904).

Poet and translator in Seattle. She studied religion at the University of Chicago and the universities of Tübingen and Munich, and has received DAAD, Mellon, and Fulbright fellowships. Her translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and other journals, and in The Opposite of Seduction: New German Poetry (2025).

American anarchist writer, lecturer, and freethinker (1866–1912).

Memoirist and retired associate professor. His creative nonfiction explores the boundaries between memory, experience, and narrative truth.

Spanish poet, essayist, and translator (b. 1972, Alicante). Author of Apolonía; he translates from Modern Greek and English into Spanish, and from Spanish into English.

Poet, essayist, and critic in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in various journals and collections.

New York writer of novels and short fiction.

American writer, feminist, and social theorist (1860–1935).

Poet, essayist, and translator. Author of A Defense of Poetry, Rhode Island Notebook, and Literature for Nonhumans; he teaches at Illinois State University.

American journalist and writer (1869–1944).

Journalist, memoirist, and teacher in Westchester County, New York. She is co-author of Still Here Thinking of You: A Second Chance With Our Mothers (2013).

New York poet, performer, and cultural theorist (b. 1965).

Poet writing in Occitan and French (b. 1983). Her books include En quête d’un visage and Un autre monde que le mien; she performs internationally and has written on Occitan Baroque drama.

American poet, originator of Hinge Theory.

Essayist who grew up in Queens, New York, the child of immigrants from Beirut. Winner of the creative nonfiction prize at BarBar; her work has appeared in The Queens Review, JMWW, and other journals.

Jamaican-born American poet and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance (1889–1948).

Poet, critic, and Professor of English at Purdue University.

A Pushcart-nominated poet, recent appearances include Gargoyle, Poetry Bay, Poetry, Lana Turner, Poetose, Volta, and others. Most recent book publications are I Want to Be Your Radio (Unlikely Books, 2025), Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025), and Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023). Recently performed at Piper Writers Center Arizona State University and the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Won the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003) and the Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Poet in New York City. An MFA candidate at Long Island University; his work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Door Is a Jar, The Delmarva Review, Red Fez, Quail Bell Magazine, and other journals.

American poet, novelist, and editor (1882–1932).

Poet, essayist, and literary critic. Editor-in-Chief of The

Rang Yan Review.

A Georgian poet and writer who lives in Tbilisi. His poetry in English includes Vegetarian Vampires (Metambesen, 2020) and Night with the Other Hand (Swan, 2022).

Poet and translator. Author of Liminal, Hiraeth, and As Grass Becomes Flesh; he has translated Fernando Pessoa's Alberto Caeiro poems and, with Mario Domínguez Parra, César Vallejo's Trilce.

Irish-born American modernist poet and anarchist (1873–1941).

English writer, social reformer, and naturalist (1851–1939).

South African writer and feminist (1855–1920).

Poet in Fairfax, California. Author of Genealogy Lesson for the Laity (Unsolicited Press, 2020) and Ghost Matinee (Unsolicited Press, 2025). A Best of the Net nominee, she served as editor for the Marin Poetry Center Anthology.

Experimental poet and writer in New York. Born and raised in the city, he has lived in Greenwich Village since the late 1970s. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from NYU, on the emergence of deep time and the pressure of archaeological discovery on literature, and studied with Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Derrida. His books include Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis, Shrinkrap: Litany in Quadraphony, and From the Lost Land: Schizo-poem (Station Hill, 2025). Co-founder of the Gloucester Writers Center and former director of the Maud/Olson Library, he was a senior editor at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. Work of his appears in the anthology Resist Much / Obey Little.

Playwright, screenwriter, and poet. His lyrical work has appeared in Nimrod, Michigan Quarterly Review, Exposition Review, Eclectica, Burningword, and elsewhere. He wrote the screenplay for Housesitter and the New York Times bestseller How the States Got Their Shapes.

American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1991). He lives in Andalusia.

Neurodivergent poet in Los Angeles and publisher of Broken Lens Journal. His books include Transcript, The Scales, The Sham Tapestry, and Compunctions + Thefts.

German poet, essayist, and translator (b. 1973).

Peruvian poet (1892–1938). His books include Los heraldos negros, Trilce, and the posthumous Poemas humanos.

Writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Literature and Languages at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. She works on Sindhi literature, postcolonial studies, and digital archives, including PG Sindhi Library and Sindhi Sanchaya.