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    Chantha Nguon

    Chantha Nguon was born in Cambodia and spent two decades as a refugee, until she was finally able to return to her homeland. She is the co-founder of the Stung Treng Women’s Development Center, a social enterprise that offers a living wage, education, and social services to women and their families in rural northeastern Cambodia. A frequent public speaker, she has appeared at universities and on radio and TV news programs, including NPR’s Morning Edition.



  • Trung Lê Nguyễn

    Trung Le Capecchi-Nguyen (Trung Lê Nguyễn, professionally) is an award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer from Minnesota. Trung’s first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, was published in 2020 through Random House Graphic. He has been nominated for an Eisner, a prize at Angoulême (France), a GLAAD award, and has won two Harvey Awards and a Romics (Italy). Trung has also contributed work for DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raises a small flock of very spoiled hens.



  • Duane Niatum

    Duane Niatum (Jamestown S’Klallam) writes poems, stories, and essays and studies European and American Indian art, literature, and culture. He has been widely published in the United States and abroad (see “Moments Hard to Piece Together,” WLT, Autumn 2019). His ninth book of poems is Earth Vowels. The Northwest landscape and legends of his ancestors help shape his writings.



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    Jóanes Nielsen

    Jóanes Nielsen, a former dockworker turned political activist and writer, is one of the preeminent figures in contemporary Faroese literature and culture. He has published seventeen books including the novel Brahmadellarnir, which was nominated for the 2013 Nordic Council’s Literary Prize and is published in English translation as The Brahmadells.



  • Elizabeth Nijdam

    Elizabeth (Biz) Nijdam is a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on German comics after 1989. Her dissertation project traces East German artistic traditions into the post-unification comics of PGH Glühende Zukunft members Anke Feuchtenberger and Henning Wagenbreth.


  • Ketty Nivyabandi

    Poet and essayist Ketty Nivyabandi was born in Belgium in 1978. She currently lives and works in her hometown, Bujumbura, Burundi. Her poetry, written mostly in French, has appeared online and in several anthologies. In 2012 Nivyabandi was selected to represent Burundi in the London Poetry Parnassus as part of the Summer Olympics. She is working on her first poetry collection.



  • Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan

    Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan is a Kazakh of Uyghur origin. He writes poetry and studies contemporary art, postcolonial studies, queer Sufism, and the steppe. He is originally from Almaty, Kazakhstan, but is currently a student at St. Petersburg State University in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of krёlex zentre and editor of Polutona.



  • Famia Nkansa

    Famia Nkansa is a Ghanaian writer whose work has been published in Fiction International, Poetry International, the Sonder Review, As/Us, Black Arts Quarterly, Callaloo, and the fifth FEMRITE Residency anthology Nothing to See Here. She was a finalist for the 2015 BN Poetry Prize. Her collection Sabbatical was published as part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets box set.



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    Urayoán Noel

    Urayoán Noel  (b. 1976, San Juan) is a poet, performer, critic, and translator who teaches at New York University. His eighth book of poetry, Transversal, is forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press. His poetry is part of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico’s permanent exhibition and appears in anthologies such as El canon abierto: última poesía en español, 1970–1985 (Visor).


  • Lucie Nolden

    Lucie Nolden is a National Merit Scholar at Bowdoin College in Maine and an avid reader of European fiction.


  • Thomas Nolden

    Thomas Nolden (PhD, Yale) is the director of the comparative literature program at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and visiting professor in the English department at Brandeis University. He is the author of several books on European writing.



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    Dorthe Nors

    Dorthe Nors is the author of the story collections Wild Swims and Karate Chop; four novels, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize; and two novellas, collected in So Much for That Winter. She lives in Denmark. Photo by Petra Kleis



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    Elizabeth Novickas

    Elizabeth Novickas worked in a number of fields before returning to her first love, literature. Her translation of Giedra Radvilavičiūtė’s essays  (see page 73) was published in 2013 by Dalkey Archive Press.



  • Aysel (Nino) Novruz

    A pianist and educator, Aysel (Nino) Novruz was born in 1985. Interested in literature from childhood, she published her first article at the age of ten in Günash (Sunlight) magazine. Her literary works are regularly published in different periodicals.



  • Cheryl S. Ntumy

    Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer whose work has appeared in FIYAH magazine and Apex Magazine, among others. She is part of the Sauútiverse Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and Petlo Literary Arts, an organization that develops creative writing in Botswana.



  • paula ilabaca núñez

    Chilean poet and novelist paula ilabaca núñez won the Pablo Neruda Young Poetry Award in 2015. Her published poetic works include la ciudad lucía (2006), la perla suelta (2009), completa (2003), Estados de mi corazón: cuadernos de viaje (2010), and Ínsulas (2012). Ilabaca Núñez’s novel, La regla de los nueve, was published in 2015.



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    Manolo Núñez Negrón

    Manolo Núñez Negrón (b. 1980, San Sebastián, P.R.) is a adjunct professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He was a columnist for the “Buscapié” section of El Nuevo Día and has published two short-story collections, El oficio del vértigo (2010) and Comida de peces (2016); a novella, Barra china (2012); and a book of chronicles, Burundanga Express (2019).



  • Naomi Shihab Nye

    Naomi Shihab Nye was the laureate of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (see WLT, Jan. 2014) as well as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022. Her most recent book is The Turtle of Michigan (Greenwillow, 2022).



  • Mikaela Nyman

    Mikaela Nyman holds a PhD in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the co-editor of Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology (2021) with Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen. Her first novel, Sado (2020), is set in Vanuatu. Her first poetry collection, När vändkrets läggs mot vändkrets (2019), was shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2020.


  • O Thiam Chin

    O Thiam Chin is the author of four collections of short stories: Free-Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009), Under the Sun (2010), and The Rest of Your Life and Everything That Comes with It (2011). Never Been Better was long-listed for the 2010 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. His short stories have been featured in Asia Literary Review, Kyoto Journal, the Jakarta Post, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, QLRS, Karavan, Asia Writes, and in several anthologies. O was an honorary fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2010.



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    Pádraig Ó Tuama

    Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975) is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound and the author of Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World. He is a poet with interests in language, violence, power, and religion. Kitchen Hymns and 40 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Anthology are both forthcoming in 2025.



  • Brenna O’Hara

    Brenna O’Hara graduated from the University of Oklahoma with degrees in English and biochemistry in 2020. She enjoys reading, volunteering, and playing in musical ensembles in her spare time. She is currently pursuing her MA in English at OU and can be found interning at World Literature Today.



  • Caitriona O'Reilly

    Caitriona O’Reilly’s first collection of poetry, The Nowhere Birds, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection and won the Rooney Prize in Irish Literature. Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Literary Prize. Between 2008 and 2011 she was editor of Poetry Ireland Review, and she currently sits on the editorial board of Poetry Salzburg Review. She lives in Lincolnshire.



  • Achy Obejas

    Achy Obejas is the author of The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and several other books of fiction. Her first full book of poetry, Boomerang, will be published by Beacon Press in a bilingual edition in 2021. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area and successfully nominated Edwidge Danticat for the 2018 Neustadt Prize.



  • Dragana Obradović

    Dragana Obradović is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto. A native of Sarajevo, she received her PhD from University College London, UK. She is the author of Writing the Yugoslav Wars: Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation (University of Toronto Press, 2016). She has published articles on post-socialist literary poetics and contemporary feminist cinema in the Balkans. Her other academic interests include the Holocaust in Yugoslav fiction, themes of diaspora and exile, and the essay genre.


  • Biljana D. Obradović

    Biljana D. Obradović, a Serbian American poet, translator, and Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans) teaches poetry writing. She has lived in Greece, India, and the former Yugoslavia before coming to the US in 1988 for graduate study. She has an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from VCU in Richmond and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She has published three collections of poems, most recently Little Disruptions (Niš Cultural Center, 2012). She also has four books of translation into English or Serbian. She is editing a second anthology of contemporary Serbian poetry with Dubravka Djurić in which Karanović will be included.



  • Ana Ojeda

    Ana Ojeda is a writer and editor. She has published numerous books in different genres for which she has won several awards and honors that particularly note her work with rioplatense language. Her most recent novel, Vikinga Bonsái (Bonsai Viking), has received widespread critical acclaim. Her Twitter and Instagram accounts are @anaojota.



  • Edwin Okolo

    Edwin Okolo (Nigeria) seeks to explore through his fiction lived experiences that are alien to him because of his gender and race. He has written for several blogs and literary magazines including Kalahari Review, The Lonely Crowd, speculative fiction at Omenana, Sable Lit Mag, and a wildly popular webseries at TheNakedConvos.com. He is currently an editor at Stories.ng and finishing his first novel.



  • Ogaga Okuyade

    Ogaga Okuyade is associate professor and currently chair, Department of English and Literary Studies, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. His recently edited books include Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapes (2013) and Between the Crown and the Muse: Poetry, Politics and Environmentalism of Christian Otobotekere (2015).



  • Bel Olid

    Bel Olid is a Catalan writer, translator, and professor. Through her writing and activism, she portrays the stark realities of child abuse, gender violence, and immigration, while throwing her voice behind the struggle for contemporary feminism and Catalan independence.