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  • Hussain Haidry

    Hussain Haidry is a poet, screenwriter, and lyricist. He was head of finance at a healthcare company in Kolkata until he left his job and moved to Mumbai to become a full-time writer. He started his career by performing at spoken-word poetry forums in Mumbai such as Kommune, then went on to write lyrics for films like Gurgaon, Qarib Qarib Single, and Mukkabaaz and web series like Chacha Vidhaayak Hai Humaare, Yeh Meri Family, and Tripling. As a screenwriter, he has co-written the Amazon web series Laakhon Mein Ek (season two) and is presently working on the dialogues of the film Takht.



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    Gili Haimovich

    Gili Haimovich is an internationally published poet and translator who writes in both Hebrew and English. She has six volumes of poetry in Hebrew and a collection of poetry in English, Living on a Blank Page. Her work is featured in numerous journals and translated into several languages.



  • Golan Haji

    Golan Haji is a Syrian Kurdish poet and translator who now lives in Paris. His latest poetry collection, A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know, was published by A Midsummer Night’s Press in 2017. His most recent translation into Arabic is Alberto Manguel’s Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2017)



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    Tehila Hakimi

    Tehila Hakimi is a poet and fiction writer from Israel. Her books include the poetry volume Mahar Na’avod (We’ll work tomorrow) (2014), which received the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature, the graphic novel baMayim (In the water) (2016), and the collection of novellas Hevra (Company) (2018). She is the recipient of the 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers and a Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa. Hakimi holds a degree in mechanical engineering.



  • Anna Halas

    Anna Halas is a playwright, theater translator, and researcher at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine. Her interests are in the fields of theater translation, contemporary Ukrainian drama, ideology, and culture. Her articles also explore different interpretations of identity in literary texts.



  • Malu Halasa

    Malu Halasa is a Jordanian Filipina American writer and editor based in London. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, her books include: Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline (2014); Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations (2009); The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design (2008); Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran (2007); Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images (2004); Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance (2002); and Mother of All Pigs, her first novel.



  • Eduardo Halfon

    Neustadt Prize nominee Eduardo Halfon is the author of fifteen books of fiction published in Spanish. Mourning (2018) received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award (US), the International Latino Book Award (US), the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France), and the Premio de las Librerías de Navarra (Spain). In 2018 he was awarded the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, his country’s highest literary honor. His newest book in English, Canción, is forthcoming in September from Bellevue Literary Press. Photo by Ferrante Ferranti



  • Tom Halford

    Tom Halford is a scholar and writer who has taught at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, Chonnam National University in South Korea, and at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. His chapbook Mill Ratis forthcoming from Frog Hollow Press in 2021. He studies crime fiction and representations of writers in Canadian novels.



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    Heather Hall

    Heather Hall is the owner of Green Feather Books in Norman, Oklahoma, just a few blocks north of World Literature Today.



  • Björn Halldórsson

    Björn Halldórsson is the senior editor of The Bridge Reviews, a web platform dedicated to English-language reviews of Icelandic literature. His first book, Smáglæpir (Misdemeanors), won the 2016 Icelandic Literature Centre’s Grassroots Grant. His second book, Stol (Route 1), was published in February 2021. He lives in Reykjavík.



  • Abdelfattah Ben Hammouda

    Abdelfattah Ben Hammouda is a Tunisian poet who has published ten books of poetry. Many of his poems have been published in journals and periodicals in Arabic as well as in French and Spanish translations. He lives in Tunis, where he works as a newspaper editor and a consultant for Mayara Editions poetry series.


  • Han Shaogong

    Han Shaogong (b. 1953) is one of contemporary China's most critically acclaimed novelists, celebrated for his linguistically sophisticated and inventive novels and essays of modern China. More biographical information is included in Julia Lovell's essay (page 25 of the print or digital edition of WLT).



  • Nathalie Handal

    Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France, and the Arab world. Described by Yusef Kumunyakaa “as one of the most important voices of her generation,” her most recent books include the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award.



  • Matt A. Hanson

    Matt A. Hanson is a journalist and editor in Istanbul. He reviews contemporary Turkish novels for World Literature Today and has written for Artforum, Artnet News, ARTnews, ArtAsiaPacific, Tablet, The Millions, Words Without Borders, and many other outlets on art, literature, history, and politics.



  • Satomi Hara

    Satomi Hara is a Japanese writer from Tokyo. In 2014 she won an honorable mention in the Mita Bungaku Prize for New Writers. In 2016 she received the Noboru Tsujihara Award in the Bungaku Kingyo Prize for New Writers. She has authored the short-story collection Sato-kun, daisuki (2018).



  • Muhammad Harbi

    Muhammad Harbi is an Egyptian poet and journalist. He is the senior editor of the cultural and literary sections of Al-Ahram newspaper, a leading Arab daily based in Cairo. Born in a small village in the northern part of the Nile delta in 1961, Harbi moved to Cairo to study journalism and media. He holds a degree in mass communication from Cairo University. Even though he started composing poetry in high school, Harbi emerged as a major published poet later in life, publishing his first collection of poetry at the age of fifty. His poetry has repeatedly been lauded for its deep and reflective connection to the natural world and geo-aesthetic sensibility. Harbi’s published collections include three Arabic books of poetry, “By the Sand as it Seduces,” “Seventeen Years to Catch a Cloud,” and “Upon a Shadow I Trod,” the last of which is the source for these translations. Harbi’s forthcoming work includes three more books of poetry, “Alone, I Set Off with My Book,” “A Diary of a Retired Demon,” and “A Balcony for Seduction.” In addition, Harbi has written and produced numerous documentaries in collaboration with his wife, Maha Shahbah, a journalist and filmmaker.



  • Myronn Hardy

    Myronn Hardy is the author of five books of poems, most recently Radioactive Starlings, published by Princeton University Press. His stories have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes. He is currently working on his first novel.



  • Githa Hariharan

    Born in Coimbatore, India, Githa Hariharan (githahariharan.com) is the author of novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles, and columns. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night (1992), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in 1993. Her most recent book is a collection of her own essays, Almost Home: Cities and Other Places.



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    Joy Harjo

    Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. The recipient of multiple awards and honors, most recently she served as executive editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). Her memoir, Poet Warrior, is forthcoming in fall 2021.



  • Jonathan Harrington

    Jonathan Harrington is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Yucatán, Mexico, and has published over twenty books.



  • Kevin Hart

    Australian poet Kevin Hart’s latest verse collection is Barefoot (2017). Other recent collections include Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (2015) and Morning Knowledge (2011). Recent scholarly books include Poetry and Revelation (2017) and Kingdoms of God (2014). He teaches at the University of Virginia.



  • Nariman Hasanzade

    Prominent poet, playwright, and journalist Nariman Hasanzade was born in rural Azerbaijan in 1931. His works address love, Azerbaijani history, folk traditions, the roles of women in society, and the natural world. Author of dozens of poetry collections, in 2005 he received the national lifetime achievement award, “People’s Poet of Azerbaijan.”



  • Shadab Zeest Hashmi

    Shadab Zeest Hashmi, author of Kohl and Chalk and Baker of Tarifa, is the recipient of the San Diego Book Award, the Nazim Hikmet Prize, and multiple Pushcart nominations. She has been published in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, Asymptote, and other journals worldwide. Her work has been translated into Spanish and Urdu.


  • Rosemary Haskell

    Rosemary Haskell teaches in the English Department at Elon University, with main teaching and scholarly interests in British and world literature. Recent work includes “Plotting Migritude: Variations of the Bildungsroman in Fatou Diome’s Le ventre de l’Atlantique and Celles qui attendent” (South Atlantic Review, Spring 2016). She is editor, with Thomas Arcaro, of Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen (Pearson, 2010).



  • Tiffany Hawk

    The author of the novel Love Me Anyway, Tiffany Hawk has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times , CNN, NPR, and the Rumpus, among others.


  • Kevin Haworth

    Kevin Haworth is the author of four books, including the essay collection Famous Drownings in Literary History. The director of the low-residency MFA program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, he is at work on Rutu Modan: War, Love and Secrets, a study of Israel’s leading graphic novelist.


  • Lisa C. Hayden

    Lisa C. Hayden’s translations include Eugene Vodolazkin’s The Aviator, Solovyov and Larionov, and Laurus, which won a Read Russia Prize and was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, for which her translation of Vadim Levental’s Masha Regina was also a finalist. Lisa’s blog, Lizok’s Bookshelf, focuses on contemporary Russian fiction. 



  • Belinda Qian He

    Belinda Q. He is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She recently received her PhD in cinema and media studies (CMS) from the University of Washington, Seattle, and worked as a CCS postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. At the intersection of film/media studies, art history, and legal humanities, her research engages the role of global and Asian screen media in structural violence and justice making. She is an incoming assistant professor of East Asian and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and will begin teaching next year.



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    Clemonce Heard

    Clemonce Heard is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga–Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, selected by Major Jackson. His collection, Tragic City, which investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October 2021.


  • Tobias Hecht

    Tobias Hecht is the author of the ethnographic novel After Life. His book At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil won the Margaret Mead Prize.