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  • Dorianne Laux

    Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems is available from W. W. Norton, as are her award-winning books Facts about the Moon and The Book of Men. A textbook, Finger Exercises for Poets, is forthcoming as well as a new book of poems, Life on Earth. She is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program.



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    Mónica Lavín

    Mónica Lavín (b. 1955, Mexico City) is the author of over thirty novels, short fiction, and essay collections. She is winner of the Gilberto Owen Premio Nacional de Literatura; Premio Narrativa de Colima; and the Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska and was a finalist for the Vargas Llosa Novel Award. She is also a biographical screenwriter and journalist who has written many science and food essays. Her latest novel is Últimos días de mis padres (2022).


  • Jean-Marie Le Sidaner

    Jean-Marie Le Sidaner (1947–92) was a French poet, essayist, and art critic who taught philosophy and was a frequent contributor to the avant-garde revue Encres Vives. In 1992 the Prix Roger Caillois was posthumously awarded to his body of work. Apocalypse Lessons, a slim volume of prose poems from which this selection derives, was among his final works.



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    Carlos Lechuga

    Director, screenwriter, and producer Carlos Lechuga is best known for the film Santa y Andrés. After being banned from the Havana Film Festival, the film eventually premiered at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. It has since appeared at more than seventy festivals, garnering numerous awards. He is co-founder, along with Claudia Calviño, of the independent production company Cachita Films. His novel En brazos de la mujer casada was published recently by Editorial Hypermedia. He lives in Havana.



  • Krys Lee

    Krys Lee is the author of the story collection Drifting House and the novel How I Became a North Korean and the translator of I Hear Your Voice and Diary of a Murderer, by Young-ha Kim. She has won the Rome Prize in Literature, the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association. Lee teaches creative writing at Underwood International College in Seoul.


  • Michael Lee

    A WLT contributing editor, Michael Lee is a professor of music (musicology) at the University of Oklahoma.



  • Li-Young Lee

    Li-Young Lee’s previous verse collections include Rose (1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award;The City in Which I Love You (1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Book of My Nights (2001). He is also the author of a memoir, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee, forthcoming from BOA Editions in fall 2006. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. As a juror for the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, he nominated poet Gerald Stern for the award. Born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents, Lee fled Indonesia with his family in 1959 after his father spent a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno’s jails. Between 1959 and 1964 the Lee family traveled throughout Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan before settling in the United States. Lee currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Donna, and their two children.



  • Jason Eng Hun Lee

    Jason Eng Hun Lee is a lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University. His poetry collection, Beds in the East, is forthcoming.


  • Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

    Novelist and journalist Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is vice president of PEN International and sits on the boards of Poets & Writers, PEN Faulkner Foundation, International Center for Journalists, Words Without Borders, and the American Writers Museum.


  • Mark Leenhouts

    Mark Leenhouts is the author of Leaving the World to Enter the World: Han Shaogong and Chinese Root-Seeking Literature (2005) and the translator of several works of Han Shaogong into Dutch, notably A Dictionary of Maqiao. Leenhouts is a literary critic for a leading Dutch newspaper and was editor and cofounder of Het trage vuur (Slow Fire), a Dutch magazine for Chinese literature. His other translations include work by Su Tong, Bi Feiyu, Yan Lianke, and Bai Xianyong. Currently he is working on Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged and Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber.



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    Joseph O. Legaspi

    Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the poetry collections Threshold and Imago (CavanKerry Press) and the chapbooks Postcards (Ghost Bird Press), Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts), and Subways (Thrush Press). He co-founded Kundiman and guest-edited the Philippine-American lit section in the March 2018 issue of WLT.



  • Laura Legge

    Laura Legge lives in Toronto. She is the winner of the 2016 PEN International New Voices Award. Her writing has most recently appeared in Hazlitt, Mid-American Review, North American Review, and The Capilano Review. She just completed her first novel.


  • Dade Lemanski

    Dade Lemanski lives in western Massachusetts. She teaches teenagers, hikes, and works as the copyeditor of In geveb, a new digital journal of Yiddish studies.



  • Robert Lemon

    Robert Lemon earned his BA at the University of Oxford and his MA and PhD at Harvard. He joined the OU faculty in 2005. His research focuses on turn-of the-century Austrian literature and culture, and his current project addresses anthropological themes in the works of Franz Kafka.



  • Wesley Y. Leonard

    Wesley Y. Leonard is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Supported by a PhD in linguistics and experience in Native American language reclamation efforts, he builds capacity for Native American communities engaged in language continuance.


  • Lisa Lercher

    Lisa Lercher was born in 1965 in Hartberg, Austria; educated in Graz; and has lived in Vienna since 1989. She has worked with women's shelters and as a lecturer at the Universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt, and Graz. Following the publication of books and articles with an emphasis on violence against women and children, she began writing crime novels and short thrillers in 2001. Her thriller Die Mutprobe (2009; Test of courage) was filmed and broadcast in 2010. Her latest novel is Zornige Väter (2010; Angry fathers).



  • Arthur Leung

    Arthur Leung holds an MFA in creative writing (with distinction) from the University of Hong Kong. A winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition, his poems have been published in print magazines, anthologies, and online journals. 



  • Ella Leus

    Ella Leus is an Odesan writer and cultural worker.



  • Alan Levenson

    Alan Levenson holds the Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma, where he directs the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, and has written extensively on the Jewish experience for both scholarly and popular audiences. His latest book is Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian (University of Alabama Press, 2022).



  • Michele Levy

    Professor emerita at North Carolina A & T State University, Michele Levy has published on major Russian and European writers and, since 2000, on postcolonial and postimperial issues in Balkan culture.



  • Dian Li

    Dian Li teaches modern Chinese literature at Sichuan University and the University of Arizona. He is the author of a book-length study on Bei Dao and many articles and essays on Chinese poetry and cinema.


  • Dong Li

    Dong Li was born and raised in the People’s Republic of China. He is an English-language poet and translates from the Chinese, English, and German. He’s the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and fellowships from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Ledig House Translation Lab, Henry Luce Foundation/Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, and elsewhere.



  • Li Juan

    Li Juan is a prolific Chinese essayist born in Xinjiang in 1979 and raised in Sichuan. She has published more than ten books of essays including the award-winning book Winter Pasture. The majority of her works reflect the Kazak nomad world of Altay in northern Xinjiang. She now lives in Urumqi, Xinjiang.


  • Alan Lightman

    Alan Lightman is a physicist, novelist, and essayist. He was educated at Princeton University and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in theoretical physics. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and MIT and was the first person to receive dual faculty appointments at MIT in science and in the humanities. Lightman is the author of five novels, two collections of essays, a book-length narrative poem, and several books on science. His novel Einstein’s Dreams was an international best-seller and has been translated into thirty languages. His novel The Diagnosis was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction.



  • Enrique Lihn

    Enrique Lihn (1929–1988) was a Chilean playwright, novelist, poet, and actor well known in Latin America. English translations of Lihn’s poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies as well as in the collections The Dark Room and Other Poems, translated by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner, and David Unger, and in Figures of Speech, translated by David Oliphant. An article about his meeting with novelist Roberto Bolaño appeared in the New Yorker in December 2008.



  • Conceição Lima

    Conceição Lima is a Santomean poet from the town of Santana in São Tomé. She studied journalism in Portugal and has worked in radio, television, and in the print press in her native country. She has published three books of poetry: O Útero da Casa, A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó, and O País de Akendenguê.



  • Lin Yi-Han

    Lin Yi-Han 林奕含 (1991–2017) was a Taiwanese writer. Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (Guerrilla, 2017) was her first and only book, as she passed away in 2017. Her novel became a symbolic feminist title across Asia and won the Open Book Best Fiction Award, the Liang Yu-Sen Literary Award, and other prizes. Her prose was published in INK magazine and BuzzFeed.



  • Marina Linda

    Marina Linda is a poet, prose writer, and head of a children’s literary studio.

     


  • Jutta Lindekugel

    Jutta Lindekugel holds a PhD in Slavic studies. She lived in Ukraine and Switzerland and only recently returned to Germany. She has published a number of academic and journalistic articles in German journals and translated short stories, poetry, and essays, mainly by such Ukrainian authors as Ivan Malkovych, Natalka Sniadanko, Halyna Pahutjak, and Max Kidruk. She is currently leading a project of the association Translit, presenting Ukrainian children’s books to the German-speaking public.



  • Christopher Linforth

    Christopher Linforth is the author of three story collections, The Distortions (2022), winner of the 2020 Orison Books Fiction Prize; Directory (2020); and When You Find Us We Will Be Gone (2014).