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  • Joseph A. Cárdenas

    Joseph A. Cárdenas is an MFA student at the University of California Riverside. He is the son of Los Angeles and inmigrantes.



  • Hélène Cardona

    Hélène Cardona is the author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press), and Life in Suspension (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2016). Her translations include Ce que nous portons (Éditions du Cygne), based on What We Carry, by Dorianne Laux; and Beyond Elsewhere, by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac (forthcoming from White Pine Press in 2016). She holds a master’s in American literature from the Sorbonne, taught at Hamilton College and LMU, and received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut and Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. She co-edits Dublin Poetry Review, Levure Littéraire, and Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics.



  • Cezanne Cardona Morales

    Cezanne Cardona Morales  (b. 1982, Dorado) is a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and columnist. In 2018 he published Levittown mon amour, a short-story collection, and won the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra and the National Prize of Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña. His short stories have also been included in various anthologies and adapted for theater performances.



  • Erica N. Cardwell

    Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator based in Brooklyn and Toronto. Cardwell has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Queer Art Mentorship. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough.



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    Alice-Catherine Carls

    Alice-Catherine Carls is Tom Elam Distinguished Professor of History (emeritus) at the University of Tennessee at Martin. An internationally published diplomatic and cultural historian of twentieth-century Europe, she is also a translator and literary critic. She serves on several editorial boards and commissions in the United States and abroad.


  • Matt Carney

    Matt Carney is the online editor for Oklahoma Gazette, Oklahoma City's alt-weekly newspaper. A 2011 graduate of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, he worked as an editorial intern for WLT during his last semester of college. He resides in Norman, Oklahoma.



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    Anna Maria Carpi

    A lifelong Milanese, Anna Maria Carpi (annamariacarpi.org) has won awards for her translations of twentieth-century German poets and also for her own poetry, which she began publishing in 1993. In 2016 Marcos y Marcos published her collected poems as E io che intanto parlo. Besides poetry, she has written essays, stories, and four novels.


  • Emmanuel Carrère

    Emmanuel Carrère (b. 1957) is a French author, screenwriter, and director. Many of his works have been made into films, one of which (La Moustache, 2005) he personally directed.



  • Roberto Carretta

    Roberto Carretta is a contemporary Italian philosopher, writer, and translator who lives in his native Turin. 



  • Clint Carroll

    Clint Carroll (Cherokee Nation) is an associate professor of Native American and Indigenous studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He works at the intersections of Indigenous studies, anthropology, and political ecology, with an emphasis on Cherokee environmental governance and land-based resurgence.


  • Anne Carson

    Anne Carson (b. 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics.


  • Monica Carter

    Monica Carter is project coordinator for Lambda Literary Foundation’s LGBT Writers in Schools program. She is also a judge for the Best Translated Book award and curates her own website, Salonica World Lit, dedicated to international literature. Her fiction has appeared in Strange Cargo, The Rattling Wall, Black Clock, Bloom, and Cactus Heart. She is finishing her novel, In the Life.



  • Fabián Casas

    Born in the Boedo area of Buenos Aires, Fabián Casas is a poet, narrator, essayist, journalist, and one of the outstanding figures of Argentina’s “90’s generation.” He studied philosophy and edited the poetry journal 18 Whiskys, which had a major impact on the Buenos Aires literary scene. In 2007 he received Germany’s prestigious Anna Seghers Prize. 



  • Marie Casimir

    As the curator of public programs and performance at Oklahoma Contemporary, Marie Casimir leads the development of exhibition and contemporary art-related programming that emphasizes diversity, innovation, collaboration, and community. She brings thirteen years of experience and a passion for engaging artists and community members across imaginary borders, both geographic and social, through art. She is an arts administrator, producer, multidisciplinary performing artist, and educator, and she has been an adjunct lecturer in the Clara Luper Department of African & African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Marie received a Heartland Emmy nomination for I Dream of Greenwood, her most recent collaboration with World Literature Today. Her dance films have been featured in several festivals, including Austin Dance Festival, Dancecinema (Vancouver), DOSABMA, DANCE@30FPS, and Greensboro Dance Film Festival. Casimir’s staged works have been featured at various venues in the US, including Links Hall, Constellation, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, the Music Box Village, Oklahoma Contemporary, and the University of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of a Ragdale Artist Fellowship and a past SixTwelve Artist in Residency.



  • Mario Castells

    Mario Castells is a writer and the sea’s kin. According to his own internal jurisdiction, he does not recognize himself as Argentine or Paraguayan but as neo-Guaraní; he feels at home in his tekoha (community), where there are mountains, estuaries, marshes, rivers, and reedbeds: all the wetland flora and fauna. 


  • Roberto Castillo Udiarte

    Roberto Castillo Udiarte is one of Mexico’s most important and controversial contemporary poets; he was also the first to translate Charles Bukowski’s work into Spanish. His poetry unflinchingly reflects the landscape and language of the border, specifically Tijuana. He is the author of half a dozen collections of poetry, including his selected poems, Nuestras vidas son otras, published in Spain by Aullido Libros. He currently resides in Playas Tijuana.


  • Raquel Castro

    Raquel Castro Maldonado (b. 1976, Mexico City) is a writer, scriptwriter, professor, and cultural promoter. In 2012 she won the Gran Angular Prize for Young-Adult Literature and is a two-time winner of the National Journalism Prize as part of the production team for OnceTV’s Diálogos en confianza. She is the author of two novels, Ojos llenos de sombra (2012) and Lejos de casa (2013). She writes a weekly column on children’s and young-adult literature for La Jornada Aguascalientes and blogs at http://raxxie.com. Castro is married to author Alberto Chimal, whose work appeared in the July 2013 issue of WLT. They live in Mexico City with their cats Primo, Morris, Pulgas, and Beakman.


  • C. P. Cavafy

    C. P. Cavafy (b. 1863, d. 1933) was a Greek poet who worked in Alexandria as a journalist and a civil servant.


  • Patrizia Cavalli

    Patrizia Cavalli (b. 1952) was born in Todi (Umbria) and now lives in Rome. Her first three volumes, Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo (1974), Il cielo (1981), and L'io singolare proprio mio (1992), are collected in Poesie (1974–92) (1992), and were followed by Sempre aperto teatro (1999) and Pigre divinità e pigra sorte (2006). She has also translated plays by Molière and Shakespeare. "La giornata atlantica," the poem translated here, is from her third collection.


  • Ermanno Cavazzoni

    Ermanno Cavazzoni (b. 1947), from Reggio Emilia, is the award-winning author of many fantastic and absurd tales. Of his many books, including Vite brevi di idioti, Cirenaica, Gli scrittori inutili, Storia naturale dei giganti, and Il limbo delle fantasticazioni, two novels have been published in English translation: The Nocturnal Library (Vagabond Voices, 2010) and Voice of the Moon (Serpent's Tail, 1990). He is also a professor at the University of Bologna and a member of the literary group OpLePo (www.oplepo.it). 


  • Inara Cedrins

    Inara Cedrins is an artist, writer and translator. Her anthology of contemporary Latvian poetry written while Latvia was under Soviet occupation was published by the University of Iowa Press, and her new Baltic anthology, three books of poetry from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, has been published by the University of New Orleans Press, with her prints as cover art.
She guest-edited a section on contemporary Baltic poetry for the November 2008 issue of WLT, and two of her own illustrated poems appeared in the July 2008 issue.


  • Ascanio Celestini

    A student of literature and anthropology, Italian actor, director, and author Ascanio Celestini (b. 1972) is keenly interested in the commedia dell’arte and runs a number of workshops. Since his first play Cicoria (1998), centered on Pasolini, he has performed numerous monologues based on testimonies and encounters. His film La pecora nera (2010) was an official selection at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, and his latest story collection is titled Io cammino in fila indiana (Einaudi, 2011).



  • Cengiz Sinan Çelik

    Born in 1974 in Dersim, Cengiz Sinan Çelik is an imprisoned Kurdish poet and painter. Çelik’s artwork has appeared in national and international exhibitions. His poems and articles have also been published in several magazines and newspapers. He is the recipient of numerous Turkish and Kurdish poetry awards. Serdestan, Çelik’s first collection of poetry, was released by Ayrıntı Publishing (Istanbul) in January 2022.


  • Lorna Dee Cervantes

    Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954) is a Chicana, Native American, feminist, activist poet. Her most notable achievements include the American Book Award, the NEA Fellowship, and the Pushcart Prize.



  • Ruxandra Cesereanu

    Ruxandra Cesereanu (b. 1963) is one of Romania’s foremost literary figures, having achieved international acclaim as a poet, novelist, essayist, and literary critic. Her attainments have been noted in Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Routledge, 2001) and The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2008). Cesereanu’s body of work ranges from her exploration of femininity and eroticism in her poetry and prose to an engagement with Romania’s communist legacy in her essays and journalism. Three of her poetry collections (Schizoid Ocean, Lunacies, and Crusader-Woman) have been translated into English.



  • Abigail Chabitnoy

    Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan, 2022) and How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan, 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry and winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award. She teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts low-residency MFA program and is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst.


  • Michael Chabon

    Michael Chabon is a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He is known for writing The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, and Werewolves in Their Youth, among others. He currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children.



  • Patrick Chamoiseau

    Born in Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau is the author of twelve novels, including Texaco, which won the Prix Goncourt and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has been translated into fourteen languages. He is one of the founding theoreticians of the Créolité movement.



  • Marianne Chan

    Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.



  • Victoria Chang

    Victoria Chang is the author of five books of poetry and two children’s books. To explore how her new book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing Silence and Grief, inhabits a space between prose and poetry, read her conversation with Amy Wright on worldlit.org. Photo by Isaac Fitzgerald