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.

Tom Beckett is a poet, editor and interviewer who lives in Kent, Ohio.

American poet, editor, and librettist.

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

Rose Bhaskar spends her life as a writer, exploring how that calling operates within higher education, industry, and politics in a globalizing world. A researcher by training, she holds two graduate degrees grounded in qualitative research and international practice. What interests Rose in any project is the chance to write a story that bridges perspectives and provokes thought. Her priorities as a creative are truth, voice, and aesthetic. You can find Rose featured across several literary magazines, on her Substack, Rose Writes Stuff, and elsewhere online.

“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).

Mexican poet and translator (b. 1974). His most recent collections of poetry include Los días baldíos, La invención del mundo, and Crónica del incendio de los días. His articles, poems, and translations have appeared in Círculo de Poesía, Bitter Oleander, Tierra Adentro, Modern Poetry in Translation, Reverso, Revista de literatura mexicana contemporánea, Huizache, and the cultural supplements to Mexico’s major newspapers. He recently published his translation into Spanish of Parque Industrial: Novela Proletaria by Brazilian author Patrícia Galvão.

Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020) was a Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, Catholic priest, and politician. Persecuted for his participation in the 1954 attempted overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, he entered the Trappist Monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky in 1957, where he was overseen by Thomas Merton, then master of novices. At the monastery, the monks’ choir sang the Vulgate version of the Psalms seven times per day. It was during that time that Cardenal was inspired to draft his own “translations,” which Merton later told him were “the versions we should really be singing in the choir.”

J.N. Cardenas is a poet, filmmaker, and literary translator from Los Angeles, with additional roots in Bolivia. His work has been published in such journals as Entropy, Sulfur Surrealist Jungle, Círculo de Poesía (Mexico), and Párrafo Magazine (UCLA). His translation of the long poem Yelidá by Dominican poet Tomás Hernández Franco (co-translated with Anthony Seidman) was published by Trainwreck Press of Canada. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and poems, and a documentary about poets from Mexico’s northern border region.

Guido Cavalli (Parma, 1974) is an author and editor at the philosophy journal Kasparhauser (www.kasparhauser.it). He has published three collections of poetry: Piccolo canzoniere selvatico (Manni Editori, 2005), Nel castagneto (with preface by Claudio Risé and afterword by Giovanni Ronchini, Edizioni Diabasis, 2015), and Salita al lago Padre (with illustrations by Andrea Bovaia, Manni Editori, 2018). His work appears in magazines, anthologies, and miscellanies (LietoColle, Bertoni editore, Puntoacapo edizioni, Mup). He has published two novels (Cielo di paese, Mobydick, 2001; Scaramuccia∗ Mobydick, 2004) under the collective pseudonym Errico Malò, as well as several short stories for newspapers, magazines, and anthologies (Guanda, Mup, Aliberti). Guido Cavalli holds a Ph.D. in Pedagogy from the Catholic University of Milan; his research focuses on the city and processes of urban transformation and regeneration, as well as health and generative welfare. He studied musical composition at the Boito Conservatory in Parma and philosophy at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He works in communications for the nonprofit sector and serves as president of the Magnete Community Center in Milan (www.magnete.mi.it).

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).

Sophia Dax-Kerr is a Franco-British writer, born and raised in Camden, London, who has spent her young adulthood in Paris. Working between two languages and cultures, she writes experimental prose, literary and olfactory essays, pursuing a voice that belongs neither wholly to English nor to French.

A graduate of Université Paris Cité, where she completed a Master's in Anglophone Literature, she is particularly interested in the limits of language and translation as an act of revelation rather than transfer. Her writing is deeply influenced by the immersive environments in which she has worked, particularly the intimate interiors of Maison Gainsbourg and the sensory worlds of French perfume houses, where space, scent and throwaway moments become inseparable from literary invention.

A self-professed scentophile and chronic reader of Nez, she also makes what she affectionately calls “funny music” with the Parisian trio Les Cashmeres, currently preparing their first EP for release in 2027.

Italian poet, critic, and translator (b. 1951, Milan). His books of poems begin with Somiglianze (1976) and include Millimetri, Terra del viso, Distante un padre, Biografia sommaria, Tema dell’addio (Viareggio Prize, 2005), Incontri e agguati, and Linea intera, linea spezzata. He founded and edited the journal Niebo (1977–1979) and has translated Baudelaire, Blanchot, Lucretius, and Virgil. In 2017 he received the Premio Lerici alla carriera.

Italian poet, artist, and translator (b. Bologna; lives in Venice). She has taught Italian and Latin. Her books include In livrea di transizione (Supernova, 1990), Dal margine del ciclone (Porto dei Santi, 2000), The Tiger in the Mirror (Coyote Books, 2006), and Letters to the Nightingale (Longhouse, 2006). She has translated Cid Corman, Tom Raworth, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, and Gary Snyder.

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

Dominican poet (1880–1961), of Santo Domingo. He introduced free verse into Dominican poetry with “Arabesco” (1917) and the movement Vedrinismo, and wrote the prose poems of Galeras de Pafos (1921).

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.

American poet and literary critic (b. 1954), professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. His books of poetry include Selected Poems & Poetic Series (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016), Zeugma (Marsh Hawk Press, 2022), and Or Current Resident (Marsh Hawk Press, 2025). “Yinglish Strophes 9” appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007. His criticism includes “A Different Sense of Power”, and he edits the interview zine Dichtung Yammer.

Italian poet, translator, and teacher (b. 1993, Macerata). His books include Languide istantanee Polaroid (Affinità Elettive, 2014), Corpo striato (Industria & Letteratura, 2021), and Amigdala (Nino Aragno Editore, 2024); with Giulio Zanet he published the artist’s book Claustro (2021). He has translated Richard Harrison and Ron Padgett, directs the series Obtorto collo, and founded Lo Spazio Letterario. He teaches Italian and Latin.

New York writer of novels and short fiction.

Hollay Ghadery’s memoir Fuse (Guernica Editions) won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award. She is the author of the poetry collection Rebellion Box (Radiant Press, 2023), the short fiction collection Widow Fantasies (Gordon Hill Press, 2024), long-listed for the Toronto Book Award, and the novel The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026), which was longlisted for the Giller Prize. She is a host on The New Books Network.

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

American poet, book artist, and translator (Lyons, Colorado). Her books include Superskywoman (Leonardi V-Idea, 1995), Knee (Ginocchio) (Porto dei Santi, 2000), and A Biomass Continuity (Go If Press, 2004). She translated Rita Degli Esposti’s Letters to the Nightingale (Longhouse, 2006).

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

David Hadbawnik is a poet, translator, medieval scholar, and an editor, with Chris Vitiello, of Polis Press. Books include Damage (Knife Fork Book, 2026); a translation of the Aeneid (Shearsman, 2023); an edited volume, Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms (Medieval Institute Publications, 2022); and Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems (Delete Press, 2018). He currently lives in the Minneapolis area with his wife and son.

American journalist and writer (1869–1944).

Poet and teacher in Philadelphia. He received his MFA in creative writing from Texas State University and has taught at Drexel University since 2017. His book-length manuscript erroreum can translate as “the shrine of straying” or “house of wandering.”

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.

William Lessard is the author of /face (KERNPUNKT Press, 2026). His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Experimental Writing, Poetry Daily, Beloit Poetry Journal, FENCE, and McSweeney’s. He is the Poetry and Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review. More about him at: www.williamlessardwrites.net.

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.

Ben Mazer is the author of eleven poetry collections, including Selected Poems (MadHat Press). He has edited the poetry of John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, Landis Everson, Harry Crosby, and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. His most recent edited book, with Blake Campbell, is An Anthology of the Berkeley Renaissance (MadHat Press).

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.

Gautham Varada Narayan is a sustainability practitioner, activist and writer from India. Based in Malaysia, he works with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-founded an organisation focused on migrant and refugee education called Bus Ya Furaha. A graduate of the University of Geneva with a Master of Science in Innovation, Human Development and Sustainability, his interests span social justice, anthropology and decolonial literature.

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).

Italian American poet, translator, and cultural worker. Born in California and educated at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Italian literature), she moved to Italy in 2003. She is a co-founder of La Macchina Sognante and editor of The Dreaming Machine. Her poetry collection I canti dell’Interregno was published in 2018.

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).

American poet, artist, and musician, born in White Plains, New York. With artist Susan Quasha he founded Station Hill Press in Barrytown, New York. His books include Somapoetics, Ainu Dreams and, of the nine books in his unique genre “preverbs” over twenty-five years, Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Hearing Other, and the forthcoming Hilaritas Sublime. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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.

Alina Reyes is a French novelist, essayist, and poet born in 1956 in Bruges, in southwestern France. She came to international attention with her debut novel, Le Boucher (1988), a provocative exploration of eroticism and the politics of the body, subsequently translated into numerous languages. Her literary work encompasses fiction, essays, and poetry, engaging with desire, sexuality, female subjectivity, political power, and spiritual inquiry. Among her other notable books are Lucie au long cours, Au corset qui tue, Derrière la porte, and Nus devant les fantômes, a work devoted to Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská. Her writing persistently interrogates the relationship between the body, freedom, and the structures—social, cultural, and ideological—that seek to regulate human experience.

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

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

Brazilian poet, researcher, and professor from the state of Minas Gerais. Her writing explores ancestry, Black identity, memory, and resistance. Her poems were published in translation in Afro-Hispanic Review in 2024. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies, with research focused on the work of Black writer Miriam Alves and the relationships among literature, knowledge, and Afro-diasporic thought.

South African writer and feminist (1855–1920).

Poet and translator who has spent significant amounts of time living in and writing from Mexico's northern border. Latin American Literature Editor of The Rang Yan Review. His translations include Contra Natura by Rodolfo Hinostroza, Smooth-Talking Dog by Roberto Castillo Udiarte, and A Stab in the Dark by Facundo Bernal.

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.

Pedro Shimose (1940, Bolivia) is considered as one of Bolivia’s most important poets and essayists, although his work has appeared only piecemeal in translation. Hailing from Riberalta, located in the Amazonian region of his homeland, many of his poems blossom with the exuberance of a jungle’s flora, while others display a mordant view of political realities. In 1972, he was awarded the Casa de las Americas prize for his collection Quiero escribir, pero me sale espuma (I Want to Write, But Out from Me Comes Foam). Other collections include Caducidad de Fuego (Expiration Date of Fire, 1975) and the open sequence and meditation on Machiavelli, Reflexiones Maquiavélicas (1980).

Poet and translator based in Lisbon. Recent translations include Conceição Lima’s No Gods Live Here (Deep Vellum), winner of the 2025 California in Translation Prize, and a forthcoming translation, with frequent collaborator Jiyar Homer, of Bachtyar Ali’s Tío Jamshid (Fondo de Cultura Económica) the first novel to be translated from Kurdish to Spanish.

Writer of German-Hungarian descent, with a background in computational social science. Having leaned into writing only recently, she enjoys writing about societal issues connected to our lives online, Artificial Intelligence, and stories about human resilience.

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.

Paul Stubbs is a British poet, editor, and mentor who lives between Chartres & England. He is the author of several poetry collections and books of poetical and philosophical essays. His work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies. With Blandine Longre, Stubbs has translated texts by Victor Segalen, Arthur Rimbaud, Jos Roy, and Pierre Cendors. He also co-founded the Anglo-French publishing house Black Herald Press in 2010. His latest book, released in November 2026, is Preparations for the Afterlife: Selected Poems 1992-2025 (Broken Sleep Books). Forthcoming, The Disappearance of the Poet: A Study on the Writings of Alice Oswald.

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

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, behavioral scientist, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, and author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results (Georgetown University Press, 2026).

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

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

American translator, translation historian, and theorist (b. 1953, Philadelphia). Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University, he is the author of The Translator’s Invisibility (1995) and The Scandals of Translation (1998) and the editor of The Translation Studies Reader. He translates from Italian, French, and Catalan; his translations of Milo De Angelis include Finite Intuition: Selected Poetry and Prose (Sun & Moon Press, 1995). Recent work includes Dino Buzzati’s The Bewitched Bourgeois (NYRB Classics, 2025).

Italian poet, teacher, and translator (b. 1964, Bologna). She teaches literature in secondary school. Her books include lineamadre (Donzelli, 2007; Anterem/Montano Prize), Tutto questo (puntoacapo, 2018; Don Luigi Di Liegro Prize), and Lo spettro di casa (puntoacapo, 2025). She has translated Adrienne Rich and Lorand Gaspar.

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.

Mark Wilson has published five poetry collections: Quartet For the End of Time (Editions du Zaporogue, 2011), Passio (Editions du Zaporogue, 2013), The Angel of History (Leaky Boot Press, 2013), Illuminations (Leaky Boot Press, 2016) & Paolo & Francesca in a Colder Climate (Black Herald Press, 2025). He is the author of a verse-drama, One Eucalyptus Seed, about the arrest and incarceration of Ezra Pound after World War Two, as well as a tragi-comedy, Arden. His poems and articles have appeared in: The Black Herald, The Shop, Tears in the Fence, 3:AM Magazine, Anvil Tongue, International Times, The Fiend, Syncopation, Epignosis Quarterly, Mande, Dodging the Rain, The Ekphrastic Review, Enheduanna, Rasputin, Amethyst Review, The Writer Monk and Le Zaporogue.