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  • Catherine John

    Catherine John is an associate professor of African American and Caribbean literature in OU’s English Department. Dr. John is the author of Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing (Duke Press & UWI Press). She is also finishing up the book Diasporic Orisa: A Philosophy of Grassroots Cultural Practice and beginning work on Cyril George Bailey: The Memoir of Stationmaster and the Genealogy of a Family. She has published in film studies, gender studies, hip-hop, and classroom pedagogy. She has received three teaching awards: the Irene Rothbaum Award (2004), the Good Teaching Award (2012), and the General Education Teaching Award (2018).



  • Emily D. Johnson

    Emily D. Johnson is the Brian and Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She studies twentieth-century Russian literature and history and the legacy of the Stalinist labor camp system. Her most recent book is Rethinking the Gulag (Indiana University Press, 2022), which she co-edited with Alan Barenberg.



  • Hannibal B. Johnson

    Hannibal B. Johnson, a Harvard Law School graduate, is an author, attorney, consultant, and college professor. Johnson serves on the federal 400 Years of African American History Commission, where he chairs the Economics & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. He chaired the Education Committee for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and served as local curator of its world-class history center, Greenwood Rising. His books, including Black Wall Street 100, chronicle the African American experience in Oklahoma and its indelible impact on American history. Johnson has received numerous honors and awards for his work and community service, including a lifetime achievement award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book and induction into the Tulsa Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.


  • Marla Johnson

    Marla Johnson is a former book reviews editor at World Literature Today.



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    Michelle Johnson

    Michelle Johnson is WLT's managing and culture editor.



  • Quinn Carver Johnson

    Quinn Carver Johnson (they/them) is the author of The Perfect Bastard (Curbstone Books, 2023), a poetry collection about gender, sexuality, class, and pro wrestling. Their work has appeared in Rappahannock Review, Right Hand Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review, and elsewhere. Carver Johnson graduated from Hendrix College and currently lives in Tulsa, where they host the People’s Poetry reading series dedicated to protest poetics.



  • Dianne Johnson-Feelings

    Dianne Johnson-Feelings is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of groundbreaking scholarship on the history of African American children’s literature and is working on a documentary film celebrating that history. As Dinah Johnson, she is the author of Black Magic (2010), Hair Dance (2007), All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts (1998), and several other books published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.


  • Randy Joly

    Randy Joly is a WLT intern and is an English Writing major at the University of Oklahoma. His interests include fantasy and science fiction novels, poetry, and video games.



  • Julius D. Jones

    Julius D. Jones is a self-taught poet and is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for a murder he says he did not commit.



  • Janine Joseph

    Janine Joseph is the author of Driving without a License, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her libretti for the Houston Grand Opera/HGOco include What Wings They Were, “On This Muddy Water,” and From My Mother’s Mother. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State University.



  • Isaac Joslin

    Isaac Joslin holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota and is assistant professor of francophone studies at Arizona State University. His research in postcolonial francophone African literatures and cinemas, ecocriticism, and Afrofuturism has been published in numerous academic journals, and his first monograph, Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions (2023), was published by Ohio University Press.



  • Fady Joudah

    Fady Joudah’s fourth poetry collection, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in the winter of 2018. His poetry and translations have been awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, among others.



  • Diaa Jubaili

    Diaa Jubaili (b. 1977, Basra, Iraq) is the author of eight novels and three short-story collections, including What Will We Do Without Calvino?, winner of the Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing, and No Windmills in Basra. He was a contributor to the short-story collection Iraq +100 and has written for the Guardian.



  • Raushan Jumaniyazova

    Raushan Jumaniyazova is a musicologist and art manager who writes for television and radio. Her research interests include the traditional musical culture of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, contemporary music, and cultural management. She was a 2019 Fulbright Scholar (ucsc).



  • Ha-yun Jung

    Ha-yun Jung’s writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Best New American Voices, and other publications. Her translations include fiction by Oh Jung-hee, Kim Hoon, and Shin Kyung-sook, and Wallace Stevens’s poetry collection Harmonium, the first of his books to be made available in Korean. She is currently translating The Ninth Wave, a novel by Choi Eun-mi.



  • Jung Yong-jun

    Korean author Jung Yong-jun began his literary career with the short story “Good Night, Oblo” (굿나잇, 오블로), for which he received the 2009 Hyundai Literature Prize for New Writers. A Walk along Seoulleung, a collection of short stories, is considered a new turning point in Jung’s world of art. His short story “Disappearing Things,” contained therein, won the Moonji Literary Award in 2019.


  • Mohammed Kadalah

    Mohammed Kadalah has most recently published translations and short prose in Lyrikline and in the anthology Voices of the Arab Spring. Born and raised in Syria, he currently teaches Arabic at the University of Connecticut.



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    Ismail Kadare

    Ismail Kadare is Albania’s best-known poet and novelist. In 2005 he was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for “a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact.” He is also the recipient of the 2009 Prince of Asturias Prize in Spain, and in 2015 he won the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. Kadare was the 2020 laureate for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.



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    Mohja Kahf

    Mohja Kahf’s second book of poetry, Hagar Poems, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2016. Her novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, was published in 2006. Kahf is a professor of comparative literature and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas.


  • Adrianne Kalfopoulou

    Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Passion Maps (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her poems and essays have appeared in various journals, including Hotel Amerika, Room magazine, and Prairie Schooner. She is on the faculty at Hellenic American University and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.



  • Joudie Kalla

    Joudie Kalla is a chef who trained in London’s finest restaurants. She is the author of two best-selling Palestinian cookbooks, Palestine on a Plate and Baladi. Her work ranges from food consulting to philanthropy, and using her cookbooks she helped rebuild a school in Nablus for children with The House of Friendship.



  • Pshtewan Kamal

    Pshtewan Kamal Babakir is an archivist, filmmaker, and translator at Kashkul.



  • Yalie Kamara

    Yalie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. She is the author of A Brief Biography of My Name (2018) and When the Living Sing (2017). Kamara’s writing can be found in Poetry Daily (Poetry Society of America), Adroit, Callaloo, and elsewhere. Kamara has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series competition and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize.



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    Márcia Wayna Kambeba

    Márcia Kambeba, of the Omágua/Kambeba indigenous people in Brazil, is the author of Ay kakyri Tama – Eu moro na cidade (2013). She’s a writer, composer, poet, activist, photographer, performer, and public speaker on indigenous and Amazonian subjects. With a master’s degree in geography, she offers workshops and storytelling throughout Brazil and abroad.



  • Nour Kamel

    Nour Kamel (she/they) writes and edits things in Egypt. Their chapbook Noon is part of the New-Generation African Poets series, and their writing can be found in Anomaly, Rusted Radishes, Ikhtyar, Sukoon, 20.35 Africa, Sumou, and Mizna. They helped create and facilitate writing workshops at the Contemporary Image Collective, which led to the publication of The Taste of Letters / طعم الحروف and Our Bodies Breathe Underwater / أجسادنا تتنفس تحت الماء.


  • Ilya Kaminsky

    Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo) and Deaf Republic (Graywolf). He was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is the translator and editor of many other books.


  • Beena Kamlani

    Beena Kamlani’s fiction won a 2009 Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Identity Lessons and Growing Up Ethnic in America as well as Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Lifted Brow 4 (Australia), and other collections. She is an editor at Viking Penguin and an associate professor of publishing at New York University. Kamlani lives in New York and is completing a novel.


  • Ken N. Kamoche

    Ken N. Kamoche (kenkamoche.com) was born and raised in Kenya. He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi and management at Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is an academic, journalist, and writer of fiction. Kamoche's collection of short stories, A Fragile Hope (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Best First Book Award. His other stories have appeared in various anthologies, including Hong Kong ID, Dreams, Miracles and Jazz, One World, and New Writing from Africa 2009, as well as several magazines. Kamoche has also been a columnist for Kenyan newspapers. He currently lives in the United Kingdom. His new novel, True Warriors, was first published as a short story in Crossing Borders, a British Council magazine.



  • Yana Kane

    Yana Kane came to the United States as a refugee from the USSR. She holds a BSE from Princeton University and a PhD in statistics from Cornell University. She is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. View.Point recognized her translations as among the “Best of 2022.” She won the 2023 RHINO Poetry Translation Prize.



  • Han Kang

    Born in South Korea in 1970, Han Kang made her literary debut as a poet in 1993. She has since published novels and short fiction and won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Manhae Literary Prize. She currently works as a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. The Vegetarian, Deborah Smith’s English translation of one of Han Kang’s five novels, has been shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.