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  • Angélica Gorodischer

    Angélica Gorodischer (b. 1928, Buenos Aires) has lived most of her life in Rosario, Argentina. The recipient of numerous awards, she is the author of some thirty books. Three of her novels have appeared in English: Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (2003); Trafalgar, translated by Amalia Gladhart (2013); and Prodigies, translated by Sue Burke (2015).



  • Georgi Gospodinov

    Georgi Gospodinov (b. 1968) is one of the most widely translated Bulgarian authors. His most recent poetry collection is Where We Are Not, winner of the 2016 Quill Award for Poetry. His second novel, The Physics of Sorrow (2015), was awarded the Jan Michalski Prize for literature and was a finalist for PEN Translation Prize.



  • Koushik Goswami

    Koushik Goswami is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was a Humanities Visiting Scholar at the University of Exeter. Earlier, he completed his M.Phil in English from the University of Burdwan. He has published several articles in various journals, including “Rewriting Tibet in The Tibetan Suitcase: A Novel (2019) by Tsering Namgyal Khortsa” (Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities) and “The Tibetan Resistance Movement and Windhorse: In Conversation with Kaushik Barua” (World Literature Today). His areas of interest include South Asian literature, diaspora studies, and postcolonial literature.



  • Patricia Grace

    2008 Neustadt Prize Laureate Patricia Grace was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives on the ancestral land of her father's people in Plimmerton, a small coastal community. Grace has been writing and publishing since the mid-1970s. Her previous awards include the New Zealand Fiction Award in 1987 and the Frankfurt Liberaturepreis in 1994 for her novel Potiki, which has been translated into several languages. She received the Hubert Church Prose Award for Best First Book for Waiariki in 1976. Dogside Story won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize in 2001 and was also long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her novel Tu was awarded the Deutz Medal for fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2005.



  • Reyna Grande

    Reyna Grande is the author of the best-selling memoir The Distance Between Us and its sequel, A Dream Called Home. She has received an American Book Award and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.



  • Mary B. Gray

    Mary B. Gray is a poet who recently received her master of fine arts from Oklahoma City University. Her work has been published in Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing, Territory Magazine, and For the Sonorous.



  • Kim Green

    Kim Green is an award-winning writer and public radio producer and contributor based in Nashville. Her work has appeared in Fast Company, the New York Times, and on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Marketplace, and the New Yorker Radio Hour. A licensed pilot, she was formerly a flight instructor.



  • Anne Greeott

    Anne Greeott’s translations have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Journal of Italian Translation, Italian Poetry Review, Atticus Review, and are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest.


  • Chelsea Greer

    Chelsea Greer is a WLT intern.


  • Andrea Grice

    Andrea Grice is a WLT intern. Graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 2015, she intends to pursue a career in copyediting and creative writing. 



  • J’aime Griffith

    J’aime Griffith is currently a grad student at the University of Oklahoma studying modern dance in the OU School of Dance. She studied at Grambling State University and the Ailey School and began her professional career with Samba/Salsa Entertainment, Awaken Dance Theatre, and Atmosphere. For the OU School of Dance, she choreographed and designed/constructed costumes for Am I There Yet, Disposition (Young Choreographers Showcase, 2020, 2021), Our Spring Will Come, Headlines, Piping Tunes (Modernist Adventures in Music and Dance 2021), performed Ashes, Ashes, choreographed by Austin Hartel (Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, 2020), and taught modern dance level 1 and modern dance level 2. In her free time, she teaches modern dance at Freedom Dance Studio in Oklahoma City.



  • Hannah Grillot

    Hannah Grillot is an undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma pursuing degrees in dramaturgy, international development, and religious studies. During the school year, she is an intern for World Literature Today.


  • Suzette R. Grillot

    Suzette R. Grillot is Dean of the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she also serves as the William J. Crowe Jr. Chair in Geopolitics and Vice Provost of International Programs.



  • Lena Bezawork Grönlund

    Lena Bezawork Grönlund is a writer from Sweden, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her first novel, Slag, was published in Sweden in 2017. She has also published poetry in several journals.



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    Hagit Grossman

    Hagit Grossman, a writer living in Tel Aviv, is the author of Trembling of the City (Shearsman, 2016). She has been shortlisted for the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award. Her poems in translation have appeared in the New Yorker and in Poetry International.



  • Charo Guerra

    Cuban writer Charo Guerra (b. María del Rosario Guerra Ayala; Limonar, Matanzas, 1962) is author of the poetry collections Un sitio bajo el cielo (1991;, Vámonos a Icaria (1998), winner of the prestigious New Pines Prize; and Luna de los pobres (2011), awarded the José Jacinto Milanés Prize. She has also written the short-story collection Pasajes de la vida breve (2007). 



  • Victoria Guerrero Peirano

    Victoria Guerrero Peirano is a poet, teacher, and feminist activist. Her recent publication Y la muerte no tendrá dominio (2019) won the 2020 National Literature Prize. She is the author of five poetry collections, including a compilation of her poetry, Documentos de Barbarie (poetry 2002–2012) (2013), which won ProART in 2015. She cares about her dog and cat. She survives by teaching at the university.



  • Leila Guerriero

    Leila Guerriero (b. 1967) is a journalist and editor whose work regularly appears in Spanish and Latin American publications (see WLT, Sept. 2022, 27). She has received numerous prizes, including the Gabriel Garcia Márquez Journalism Award, and is the author of over a dozen books, including A Simple Story. Her writing has been translated into multiple languages. 



  • Marame Gueye

    Marame Gueye is associate professor of African and African diaspora literatures at East Carolina University. Her work is on verbal art, gender, language, and immigration. Dr. Gueye is also a scholar-activist of women’s rights in Senegal and its American diaspora.


  • Guo Jian

    Guo Jian is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. His books include The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and he co-translated Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962.



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    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Abdulrazak Gurnah is emeritus professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent. Born in Zanzibar, he is the author of the acclaimed novels Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise, Admiring Silence, By the Sea, Desertion, The Last Gift, and Gravel Heart. His latest book, Afterlives, was published in 2020. He served on the jury of the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, nominating J. M. Coetzee for the award.


  • Mikaël Gómez Guthart

    Mikaël Gómez Guthart (b. 1981, Paris) is a short-story writer and literary critic for La Nouvelle Revue Française and translator into French of Witold Gombrowicz, Miguel de Unamuno, Ricardo Piglia, and Alejandra Pizarnik, among others.



  • José Ángel Gutiérrez

    José Angel Gutiérrez (b. 1944) is considered one of the Four Horsemen of the Chicano Movement and founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas–Arlington. The author or co-author of seventeen books, he was most recently honored with the 2018 National Hispanic Hero Award from the US Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago.



  • Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

    Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón  (b. 1986, Caguas) is the author most recently of the novel Los días hábiles (2020) and the book of short stories Preciosos perdedores (2019). He has received the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña’s National Novel Prize in Puerto Rico (2012) as well as the Festival de la Palabra’s Premio Nuevas Voces (2015), a recognition of up-and-coming local writers. In 2017 he was selected by the Hay Festival as part of Bogotá39, a list of the best Latin American writers under the age of forty.


  • Lee Gutkind

    Lee Gutkind is founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org), the first and largest literary magazine in the world to publish nonfiction narrative exclusively. Gutkind is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Arizona State University. His most recent book is You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction—From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between.



  • Sean Guynes-Vishniac

    Sean Guynes-Vishniac (@guynesvishniac) is a PhD candidate in English at Michigan State University. He is editor of Punking Speculative Fiction (a special issue of Deletion, May 2018); co-editor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (forthcoming) and Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017); editor of The SFRA Review; and book reviews editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.



  • Barbara Haas

    Barbara Haas’s recent essays appear in The MacGuffin, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Terrain.org, and the Chariton Review. Her nonfiction is forthcoming from Isthmus, Lake Effect, and Delmarva Review.


  • Felix Haas

    Felix Haas grew up in Berlin and went to graduate school for physics and mathematics. Beside science and languages, he has always had a passion for literature. His writing has appeared in World Literature Today, literaturkritik.de, and the Fair Observer, among other publications. After years in different European, Northern, and Central American countries, he now lives in Zurich.



  • Paavo Haavikko

    Paavo Haavikko (1931-2008) was a Finnish poet and playwright. He published his first collection of poetry in 1951, at the age of twenty. After three more poetry collections, two three-act plays, and two novels, Haavikko's first English-translated piece was published in 1961. He is the laureate of the 1984 Neustadt Prize.



  • Hedy Habra

    Hedy Habra (HedyHabra.com) is the author of two poetry collections, Tea in Heliopolis (2013), winner of the USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award, and Under Brushstrokes (2015), inspired by visual art. Recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she is also the author of a story collection, Flying Carpets (2013), winner of the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention.