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  • Hayan Charara

    Hayan Charara is the author of three poetry books, most recently Something Sinister, winner of the Arab American Book Award. He is also co-editor and series founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. His children’s book, The Three Lucys, received the New Voices Award Honor. He teaches at the University of Houston.



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    Amichai Chasson

    Amichai Chasson (b. 1987, Ramat Gan, Israel) is a poet, author, journalist, film director, screenwriter, and artistic director. Chasson received the Minister of Culture’s prize in 2015 as well as the Dr. Gardner Simon Prize for Hebrew Poetry for his book Bli Ma in 2018. 



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    Roz Chast

    Rosalind "Roz" Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.



  • Jhilam Chattaraj

    Jhilam Chattaraj is currently working as an Assistant Professor at R.B.V.R.R Women’s College, Department of English, Hyderabad. Her academic and creative writings have been published in journals like Muse India, Indian Book Chronicle, Langlit, Eastlit, Indialogue Foundation, Women’s Web, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and Toasted Cheese Literary Journal. Her poems were exhibited at Elixir of Voices, Aillama Art Gallery, Hyderabad. She is the editor of the literary blog Quills: The World of Words.



  • Shakti Chattopadhyay

    Early in his life, Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933–1995) was a part of the anti-establishment, avant-garde movement called the Hungry Generation. He worked as a journalist for the Ananda Bazar Patrika and then as a visiting lecturer at Viswa Bharati University. He was a prolific translator and poet, with over a dozen collections to his name, besides novels and other nonfictional prose books. “Old New Griefs” is from his Sahitya Akademi–winning collection Jete Pari Kintu Keno Jabo (1983).



  • Geet Chaturvedi

    Geet Chaturvedi (b. 1977) is one of the most widely read contemporary Hindi authors. He has authored six books, including two collections of six novellas and two collections of poetry. He was awarded the Krishna Pratap Award for fiction and Bharat Bhushan Award for poetry. His poems have been translated into fourteen languages.



  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962 ), is an Indian English author and academic. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's highest literary honour, in 2002 for his novel A New World. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. In 2012, Chaudhuri won the Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies for his imaginative and illuminating writings in literary criticism, which reflect a complex literary sensibility, and great theoretical mastery, along with a probing sense of detail.



  • Bernice Chauly

    Bernice Chauly is the author of five books of poetry and prose, including the award-winning memoir Growing Up with Ghosts (Matahari Books, 2011). She lectures in creative writing at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and is the director of the George Town Literary Festival. She is currently editing her first novel, which begins during the Malaysian Reformasi movement of 1998.



  • Dean Chavers

    Dean Chavers is director of Catching the Dream, former president of Bacone College, and initiated the Exemplary Programs in Indian Education (EPIE) movement. He has written over twenty books. In his capacity as director of Catching the Dream, Dr. Chavers has helped more than six hundred Native American students finish college.



  • Rosa Chávez

    Rosa Chávez is a Maya K’iche’ and Kaqchikel poet, playwright, and artivist who is Guatemala program coordinator for the international feminist organization JASS Mesoamerica. The author of five poetry books, her work has been widely anthologized and translated into Maya K’iche’, French, English, and Norwegian, among other languages.



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    Andrée Chedid

    Born in Cairo, Andrée Chedid spent her early years hopscotching between Egypt, Lebanon, and France. She eventually settled in Paris, where she was deemed “the lady of two rivers”—the Nile and the Seine. A prolific prose writer and playwright, Chedid claimed that poetry was her favorite form, one to which she returned “as though it were the essential spring.” She won the Prix Goncourt for poetry in 2002 and was named a Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur in 2009. She died in 2011.



  • Paloma Chen

    Paloma Chen (b. 1997, Alicante) investigated the Chinese diaspora in Spain in Crecer en ‘un chino’ and has contributed to El Salto, El País, and La Marea. She won the 2020 Viva #LdeLírica National Poetry Prize and has recited in such festivals as Irreconciliables in Málaga and in spaces such as the Fórum Social Europeu das Migrações and the Asia Europe Peoples’ Forum.



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    Alan Cheuse

    Alan Cheuse is the author of the novels The Bohemians (1982), The Grandmother’s Club (1986), The Light Possessed (1990), and To Catch the Lightning (2008), plus three collections of short fiction and a pair of novellas, The Fires (2007). As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. A Trance after Breakfast, his collected travel essays, recently appeared in paperback. His new novel, Song of Slaves in the Desert, will be published in the spring of 2011.



  • Fredy Chikangana

    Quechua poet and speaker Fredy Chikangana is from the Yanakuna Mitmak Nation in the Yurak Mayu territory of Colombia. His Indigenous name is Wiñay Mallki, which means “root that remains over time.” The prizewinning author of two verse collections, he has participated in national and international poetry events in Indigenous languages, and his poems have been translated into multiple languages. He has worked on strengthening Quechua Yanakuna Mitmak identity and oralitura, work that he shares with his Native brothers and sisters throughout the Americas.


  • Brian Chikwava

    A Zimbabwean writer, Brian Chikwava is the author of the novel Harare North and winner of the 2004 Caine Prize for African Writing for his story "Seventh Street Alchemy." His essay "Free Speech in Zimbabwe: The Story of the Blue-Stomached Lizard" appeared in the September 2006 issue of WLT.



  • Alberto Chimal

    Alberto Chimal is a Mexican author of short stories, novels, and children’s books. In addition to his work as a screenwriter, he is the first Mexican to write a Batman story for DC Comics. He has received national and international awards and is considered a prominent figure of contemporary Latin American literature.



  • Frank Chin

    Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley. He received an American Book Award in 1989 for a collection of short stories, The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., and another in 2000 for Lifetime Achievement. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
    Chin is considered to be one of the pioneers in Asian American theatre. He founded the Asian American Theatre Workshop, which became the Asian American Theater Company in 1973. He first gained notoriety as a playwright in the 1970s. His play The Chickencoop Chinaman was the first by an Asian American to be produced on a major New York stage. Stereotypes of Asian Americans, and traditional Chinese folklore are common themes in much of his work.
    In addition to his work as an author and playwright, Frank Chin has also worked extensively with Japanese American resisters of the draft in WWII. His novel, Born in the U.S.A., is dedicated to this subject.

    Chin is also a musician. In the mid-1960s, he taught Robbie Krieger, a member of The Doors how to play the Flamenco guitar.



  • Sandro Chiri

    Sandro Chiri (b. 1958) is a representative poet of the “Generation of 1980” in Peru. He has published four books of poetry: El libro del mal amor y otros poemas (1989), Y si después de tantas palabras (1992), Viñetas (2004) and Poemas de Filadelfia / Philadelphia Poems (2006). His poetry has been translated into English, Portuguese, and Italian.



  • George Choundas

    George Choundas’s work has appeared in over fifty publications. His story collection, The Making Sense of Things (FC2), was awarded the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and shortlisted for three other prizes. Winner of the New Millennium Award for Fiction, he is a former FBI agent and half-Cuban/half-Greek.



  • Urszula Chowaniec

    Urszula Chowaniec is a senior teaching fellow in Polish at University College in London and a professor at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University. She is also the author of Melancholic Migrating Bodies: Polish Contemporary Women’s Writing (Cambridge Scholars, 2015).



  • Adrienne Christian

    Adrienne Christian is a writer and fine art photographer. Dr. Christian is the author of three poetry collections: Worn (2021), A Proper Lover (2017), and 12023 Woodmont Avenue (2013). Common themes in her work are family, love, and African American life.



  • Necia Chronister

    Necia Chronister is an associate professor of German at Kansas State University and the editor of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. Her research focuses on contemporary German literature, primarily by women writers. She has published on Jenny Erpenbeck, Judith Hermann, Angela Krauss, and Antje Rávic Strubel.



  • Eddie Chuculate

    Eddie Chuculate (Creek/Cherokee) is the author of the story collection Cheyenne Madonna (Black Sparrow Press, 2010) and a winner of the O. Henry Prize. He held a Wallace Stegner creative writing fellowship at Stanford University and graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He later earned a master’s of fine arts degree at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.



  • Derek Chung

    Derek Chung is an acclaimed poet, essayist, and critic from Hong Kong. He is the recipient of numerous Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature, among other accolades. His poetry collections include The Growing House, Umbrellas That Blossom on the Road, and A Bright House Standing in Light Rain.



  • Eun-Gwi Chung

    Eun-Gwi Chung is an associate professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. She earned her PhD in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. Her translations of Korean poetry with Brother Anthony have been published as The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry (2014) and Fifteen Seconds Without Sorrow (2014) in the US. This research was supported by a research grant from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.



  • Sonya Chyu

    Sonya Chyu studied fiction at Cornell University. Her work has been awarded first place in the Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize in Fiction, published in Rainy Day and Anak Sastra, and received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers.



  • Kayla E. Ciardi

    Kayla E. Ciardi grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, and recently graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oklahoma, earning a bachelor’s degree in English. She currently interns for World Literature Today, and she has been accepted to the Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford in fall 2019. With interests in writing, editing, and visual design as well as a lifelong love of literature, Kayla plans to pursue a career in publishing.



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    Janet Clark

    Janet Clark worked as a university lecturer and head of marketing in Belgium, England, and Germany. After a successful career in the industry, she started over from scratch as a writer. Since 2011, she has had nine novels published and campaigns for authors’ rights as the president of Mörderische Schwestern e.V.



  • Nick Roger Clarke

    Nick Roger Clarke is a writer, videographer, and marathon runner from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His first collection, Positive Reinforcements for Negative People, appeared in 2018. He has also been published in The Age, Soft Quarterly, and Runners Tribe.



  • Rosie Clarke

    Rosie Clarke is director of public programming at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in lower Manhattan, a social enterprise and event venue that raises money to support Housing Works’ lifesaving services for people living with HIV/AIDS in New York.