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  • Ena Selimović

    Ena Selimović is a writer and translator who works from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian (BCMS) into English. In 2020 she was awarded the American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship for her translation of Maša Kolanović’s Sloboština Barbie (Underground Barbie). Currently she is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and associate research scholar at Yale University.


  • Inela Selimović

    Inela Selimović holds a PhD in Latin American literature and teaches at Wellesley College. This piece was largely inspired by her students at the Albright Institute in January 2014, who asked insightful questions about the power that aesthetic representations might have in war and postwar settings.



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    Zsuzsa Selyem

    Zsuzsa Selyem is a novelist, poet, translator, and associate professor in the Department of Hungarian Literature, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania. Her 2006 novel 9 kiló (Történet a 119. zsoltárra) (9 Kilos [Story on Psalm 119]) represented Hungary at the 2007 European First Novel Festival. In addition, she has published two volumes of short stories and five volumes of essays.



  • Sudeep Sen

    Sudeep Sen’s prizewinning books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980–2015 (London Magazine Editions), EroText (Vintage), Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms (Bloomsbury), and Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann). He has edited influential anthologies, including The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi), and he guest-edited the “Writing from Modern India” issue of WLT (Nov. 2010). Blue Nude: Ekphrasis & New Poems (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) and The Whispering Anklets are forthcoming. Sen’s works have been translated into over twenty-five languages. His words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Financial Times, Herald, Poetry Review, Literary Review, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on BBC, PBS, CNN IBN, NDTV, AIR, and Doordarshan. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), Leela: An Erotic Play of Verse and Art (Collins), Indian Love Poems (Everyman), Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe), Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell), and Name Me a Word (Yale). He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS, editor of Atlas, and currently the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Museo Camera. Sen is the first Asian honored to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and read at the Nobel Laureate Festival. The government of India awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of culture/literature.”



  • Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano

    Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano has short fiction recently appearing in the journal Banwa and Words Without Borders’ special issue on writing from the Philippines. 


  • Clemens Setz

    Clemens Setz (b. 1982, Graz) is an Austrian poet, novelist, playwright, and translator. He is the author of the novels Söhne und Planeten (2007; Sons and planets) and Die Frequenzen (2009; Frequencies). His play Mauerschau (View from the walls) premiered in Vienna’s Schauspielhaus. He was awarded the Ernst-Willner-Preis (2008), the Bremer Literaturpreis (2010), and the Outstanding Artist Award (2010). His novel Die Frequenzen was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2009 (see Ross Benjamin’s review on page 65 of the print edition). In his recent interview with Peter Constantine, Setz discusses the in-betweenness of writing both poetry and fiction.



  • Constantin Severin

    Constantin Severin is a Romanian writer and visual artist, founder and proponent of Archetypal Expressionism, a new art movement. A graduate of Iowa’s International Writing Program, he has published thirteen books of poetry, essays, and fiction. One of his recent books is the novel The Librarian of Hell.


  • Bewketu Seyoum

    Bewketu Seyoum is from Gojjam, Ethiopia, southwest of Addis Ababa. He studied psychology at Addis Ababa University and published his first collection of poems, Nwari Alba Gojowoch (Unmanned houses), in 2000, a year after graduating. He has published two further verse collections and two novels. His poetry has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and Callaloo. In 2008 he received the best young writer award of Ethiopia from the president. In 2011 he was attacked and badly beaten by a church deacon for writing a “blasphemous” article (“A Saint with No Legs,” www.thereporterethiopia.com). His story “Waiting” and two poems appear in WLT’s September 2012 print edition.



  • Mona Nicole Sfeir

    Mona Nicole Sfeir was born in New York City and grew up in five countries. She is both a poet and a visual artist and recently created an installation of fifty panels for the Los Angeles Immigration Law Center. The three poems are part of a manuscript, The Alphabet of Empire, that draws from the US DOD military dictionary and a dictionary from 1898.



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    Elif Shafak

    Elif Shafak is Turkey’s most-read woman writer and an award-winning novelist. She has published thirteen books, including nine novels and a nonfiction memoir, Black Milk. Her latest novel, The Architect’s Apprentice, was published by Penguin UK in November 2014. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages. Shafak is also active on social media (@Elif_Safak), with more than 1.6 million followers.


  • Arif Shah

    Arif Shah was born in Faisalabad pre-Partition. He is a Punjabi poet with a published volume of poetry. His poetry regularly appears in left-leaning political magazines, and he is often found reciting his poetry at political rallies.



  • Yudit Shahar

    Yudit Shahar grew up on the border of Sh’chunat HaTikvah, “the neighborhood of hope,” in Tel Aviv. She is the author of the prizewinning poetry collections It’s Me Speaking (2009) and Every Street Has Its Own Madwoman (2013) and recently won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize in Hebrew Literature for her body of work. Holy Illusion, her third collection, was published in January 2021.



  • Adeeba Shahid Talukder

    Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018), and her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets fellowship from Poets House.


  • Vera Shamina

    Vera Shamina is a full-time professor in the Department of World Literature at Kazan Federal University. She is a lecturer in English and American studies and the author of three monographs and over one hundred essays on different aspects of anglophone literature and drama.



  • Fatemeh Shams

    Fatemeh Shams’s third collection, When They Broke Down the Door, translated by Dick Davis, received the 2016 Latifeh Yarshater Award. She was recognized as one of the leading voices of exile when she won the Jaleh Esfahani poetry prize for the best young Iranian poet in 2012.



  • S. Shankar

    S. Shankar is a novelist, scholar, and translator. His third novel, Ghost in the Tamarind, set against the background of the anticaste movement in South India during the twentieth century, was published in 2017. The award-winning critical book Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular was published in 2012. Shankar is the editor of Caste and Life Narratives (2017). He teaches English at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa and blogs at his website, sshankar.net.


  • Robert Shapard

    Robert Shapard is editor, with James Thomas and Christopher Merrill, of an anthology of very short fiction forthcoming from W. W. Norton, Flash Fiction International. Another recent world anthology is Sudden Fiction Latino, very short fictions from Latin America and the United States, which he edited with James Thomas and Ray Gonzalez in 2010. He lives in Austin, Texas.



  • Lyudmila Sharga

    Lyudmila Sharga is a poet, prose writer, and head of the Diligance literary studio.



  • Shahilla Shariff

    Shahilla Shariff’s first poetry collection, Life Lines, was published in 2012 by Proverse Hong Kong. Her work has been featured in various anthologies and journals (see WLT, January 2017, 38). Born in Kenya, she is Canadian and lives in Hong Kong.


  • Rajesh Sharma

    Rajesh Sharma has recently translated, with Alpna Saini, a selection of Harbhajan Singh Hundal’s poems from the original Punjabi. His writings have appeared in Film-Philosophy, Brevity, Intersections, Tangentium, Chandrabhaga, Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, The Book Review, Hard News, Dialog, Indraprastha, and JNUJournal of the School of Languages. He is co-editor of South Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Literature, Arts and Culture. His forthcoming book, Indisciplines: Notes on Politics, Culture and Education, is being published by Three Essays Collective.


  • Susan Shaughnessy

    Susan Shaughnessy is Associate Professor of Acting & Directing and Inter­national Programs Coordinator for the OU School of Drama. She holds an MFA in direct­ing from the University of New Orleans and has directed over a hundred productions nationally and internationally. Her recent credits at the University of Oklahoma include Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen and Dacia Maraini’s Mary Stuart, which was also performed at the Festival delle Due Rocche in Arona, Italy, in September 2011. Professor Shaughnessy is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.



  • Konstantin Shavlovsky

    Konstantin Shavlovsky is a poet, cinema critic, publisher, curator, and the founder/executive manager of the Saint Petersburg bookstore Word Order. He has worked as an editor for Seance magazine, published extensively on Russian cinema, and curated multiple interdisciplinary cinema projects. He is the author of two books of poetry and resides in Tbilisi, Georgia.



  • Ksenia Shcherbino

    Ksenia Shcherbino's poetry and prose have been published in the journalsBabylon, Znamia, Novyi mir, Vozdukh, and other venues. She studied translation at the Moscow State Linguistic University and received her MA from the Institute of European Policy in Paris. She is currently completing an MA in Victorian studies at Westminster University, London. Shcherbino has translated several books on cultural studies and is also a visual artist who has had several solo exhibitions in Paris and Moscow.



  • Daria Shchukina

    Daria Shchukina is an international student from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and a junior at the University of Oklahoma. Majoring in English, she is currently taking an independent study dedicated to translation studies. She hopes to pursue graduate school and aims to specialize in comparative literature and translation post-OU graduation.



  • Renee H. Shea

    Renee H. Shea, formerly professor of English at Bowie State University in Maryland, interviews contemporary authors for World Literature Today. She frequently contributes to Poets & Writers, most recently a profile of Camille Dungy (May/June 2023) and “Dreaming up Her Own Salvation: A Profile of Safiya Sinclair” (November/December 2023). She is currently doing a series for the American Book Review on “The Laureates.” The initial interview with J. Drew Lanham, poet laureate of Edgefield County, South Carolina, appeared in the fall 2023 issue. She also coauthors English language arts textbooks for Bedford, Freeman & Worth.



  • Peter Sheehy

    Peter Sheehy is a publishing industry misfit, a New York local and San Francisco expat who waves to cats across streets. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Catamaran Literary Reader, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in the Florida Review.



  • Sherry Shenoda

    Sherry Shenoda is a Coptic American poet and pediatrician, born in Cairo, living in California. Her work is at the intersection of human rights and child health. Her first novel, The Lightkeeper, was published in May 2021.



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    Matthew Shenoda

    Matthew Shenoda is the author and editor of several poetry collections and a founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is currently associate provost for social equity and inclusion as well as professor of literary arts at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).



  • Victor Shepelev

    Victor Shepelev is a software architect and writer from Kharkiv. He organized international online poetry festivals even before Covid.



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    Frank Sherlock

    Frank Sherlock approaches the work of poet as conduit and the writing process as collaborations of encounter. He is a founder of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension), which enacts roving guerrilla readings/performances in public spaces. Poems beyond the page have found their forms in installations/performances/exhibitions, including Refuse/Reuse: Language for the Common Landfill, Kensington Riots Project, Neighbor Ballads, and B. Franklin Basement Tapes. He is the author of Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated (Ixnay Press, 2014), The City Real & Imagined (w/ CA Conrad), Over Here (2009), and Ready-to-Eat Individual (w/ Brett Evans, 2008). He is a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature and the second Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.