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Jocelyn Frelier
Jocelyn Frelier is an assistant professor of International Studies at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include contemporary French and francophone literature and film, migration and diaspora studies, and gender theory.
Rodrigo Fresán
Rodrigo Fresán (b. 1963, Buenos Aires) is the author of Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, and more. Translations into English include Kensington Gardens (Natasha Wimmer, FSG), The Bottom of the Sky (Will Vanderhyden, Open Letter), and The Invented Part (Vanderhyden, Open Letter).
Stuart Friebert
Stuart Friebert has published fifteen volumes of translations from the German and, in collaboration with colleagues, from the Czech, Italian, Romanian, and Lithuanian; fifteen books of his own poems (two with major prizes); several co-edited anthologies, including The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2nd ed., 1989); and two prose memoirs.
Yanara Friedland
Yanara Friedland is a German American writer, translator, and teacher. She is the author of the novel Uncountry: A Mythology, the 2015 winner of the Noemi Fiction Prize. The digital chapbook Abraq ad Habra: I will create as I speak, is available from Essay Press.
Charlotte Friedman
Charlotte Friedman is a poet, author (The Girl Pages), and adjunct professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her poetry has been published in such journals as the Connecticut River Review, Intima, and Waterwheel Review.
Max Frisch
Max Frisch (1911-1991) was a Swiss novelist and playwright. Frisch's father suddenly passed away while he was studying at the University of Zurich, and Frisch had to abandon his studies and take up a job as a journalist, thus beginning his life-long career as a writer. His first novel was published in 1934, but his most active writing period occurred during the 1950s and 60s. Major themes in Frisch's works include identity, individuality, and political commitment. He is the laureate of the 1986 Neustadt Prize.
Photo by Alon Poratdiv>Tahel Frosh
Tahel Frosh (b. 1977) has degrees in law and psychology and is currently working on a doctorate in literature. Her debut poetry collection, Betsa (Avarice. Jerusalem, Mossad Bialik, 2014), from which these poems have been chosen, was published in 2014 to wide acclaim. She also co-edited the anthology Avodat gilui (Unveiling work) and is a member of the art and social justice collective Cultural Guerrilla.
Fu Qiuyun
Fu Qiuyun is from the city of Zhoukou in Henan Province. She changed jobs many times before ending up at the Workers’ Home in Beijing, where she has been working for over a decade. Currently she serves as the main organizer of the Picun Literature Group.
Todd Fuller
Todd Fuller is curator of the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma Libraries. Some of his other work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, and Third Coast. He is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Level Land: Poems for and about the I35 Corridor (Lamar University Literary Press). His first two books were 60 Feet Six Inches and Other Distances from Home: The Baseball Life of Mose YellowHorse (Holy Cow! Press) and To the Disappearance (Mongrel Empire Press). He lives with his wife, two kids, and a dog named Jake in Norman, Oklahoma.
Ana María Fuster Lavín
Ana María Fuster Lavín is a Puerto Rican writer and cultural columnist. She received awards from PEN Puerto Rico’s chapter for her novel Requiem and from the Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña for her short-story collection Verdades Caprichosas and for her poetry collection El libro de las sombras. She is also the author of several narrative and poetry books, including two gothic novels: (In)somnio and Mariposas Negras.
Yuki Fuwa
Yuki Fuwa is a Japanese writer from Osaka. In 2020 she was named a finalist for the first Reiwa Novel Prize. In the same year, her short story was a finalist in the first Kaguya Sci-Fi Contest. Translated by Toshiya Kamei, Yuki’s short fiction has appeared in Hundred Word Horror, Litro, New World Writing, and elsewhere.
Sophia Galifianakis
Sophia Galifianakis teaches at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Plume, Western Humanities Review, Arts & Letters, the Hollins Critic, Greensboro Review, and other journals. She has received scholarships from the West Chester Poetry Conference, Poetry by the Sea, and the Vermont Studio Center.
Matt Gallagher
Matt Gallagher is the author of four books, including Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Daybreak, a novel about the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict, forthcoming in February from Atria/Simon & Schuster. He lives in Tulsa with his family.
Martín Gambarotta
Martín Gambarotta has published three books of poetry: Punctum (1996), Seudo (2000, republished as an expanded version Seudo/Dubitación in 2014), and Relapso+Angola (2005). Between 1996 and 2006 he was editor of poesia.com, a website dedicated to contemporary Latin American poetry. For many years he was news editor and political columnist with the Buenos Aires Herald.
Myrsini Gana
Myrsini Gana was born in Athens, Greece. She studied English literature in Athens and cultural management in Brussels, Belgium. She has been translating literature for the last ten years and has translated into Greek most of David Sedaris’s books as well as works by Sylvia Plath, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kate Atkinson, Truman Capote, and others.
Photo: Dexter Fletcherdiv>Vanessa Garcia
Vanessa Garcia is a multidisciplinary writer. Her play Amparo is currently running in Miami. Her debut novel, White Light, was one of NPRs Best Books of 2015. Most recently, she was a Sesame Street Writer’s Room Fellow and is currently a WP Theatre Lab fellow as well as a professor of writing at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design).
Enza García Arreaza
Enza García Arreaza (b. 1987, Venezuela) is a short-fiction writer and poet, author of Cállate poco a poco (2008), El bosque de los abedules (2010), Plegarias para un zorro (2012), El animal intacto (2015), and Cosmonauta (2020). In 2017 she was a resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and at the Pittsburgh City of Asylum. During 2018 and 2020 she was a Fellow at the International Writers Project for endangered writers at Brown University.
Rina Garcia Chua
Rina Garcia Chua (she/her/siya) is a creative and critical scholar from the Philippines who is currently based in unceded tm'xʷúlaʔxʷ (lands) of the syilx / Okanagan peoples. She is completing her poetry collection, A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards, which is a visual and poetic response to environmental injustice in migrant cultures and liminal spaces.
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927) was born in Aracataca, Colombia, where his maternal grandparents raised him for the first nine years of his life. He began his career in writing as a journalist while studying at the University of Cartagena, writing columns for the university's paper. In 1955 García Márquez published his first novella, La Hojarasca (tr. Leaf Storm, Penguin Books, 1972), a stream-of-consciousness story about a young boy's first encounter with death. But it would not be until the publication of Cien años de soledad (1967; tr. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Avon, 1970) that he would become the literary figure he remains to this day. He won the 1972 Neustadt Prize.
Blanca Garnica
Blanca Garnica (b. 1944, Cochabamba) is a Bolivian poet and teacher of literature. She has published twelve collections of poetry, and her poetry has appeared in numerous national periodicals and anthologies. In 2017 Garnica was honored by the Cochabamba International Book Fair for her contributions to Bolivian literature.
Kylie Garrett
Kylie Garrett is a senior at the University of Oklahoma pursuing a bachelor’s degree in advertising and a minor in editing and publishing. While focusing on her efforts in school, she is also involved as a social media intern, local retail associate, and a small art business owner.
Ana Marques Gastão
Ana Marques Gastão is a Portuguese poet, essayist, and researcher at the University of Lisbon. She is currently the assistant editor of Colóquio Letras, a literary journal published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. She has authored many books of poetry, including Nocturnos (2002), Nós/Nudos (2004), Lápis Mínimo (2008), and Adornos (2011).
A photo of translator Edward Gauvindiv>Edward Gauvin
Edward Gauvin's work has won the John Dryden Translation prize and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award and been nominated for the French-American Foundation and Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prizes. The translator of more than 250 graphic novels, he is a contributing editor for comics at Words Without Borders and has written on the francophone fantastic at Weird Fiction Review.
Kristina Gavran
Kristina Gavran is a writer from Croatia. Her novel Gitara od palisandra (The Palisander Guitar, 2018) was shortlisted for the European Literature Award. Her book of short stories, Kiša u Indiji, ljeto u Berlinu (Rain in India, Summer in Berlin, 2016), won the best debut award by the Croatian Writers’ Association. Gavran lives in England, where she is a PhD researcher and theater-maker.
