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  • Mahtem Shiferraw

    Mahtem Shiferraw won the 2015 Sillerman Prize for African Poets. Her collections Fuchsia and Your Body Is War were published by the University of Nebraska Press (see WLT, Nov. 2016, 87, and WLT, Summer 2019, 80). She is the founder of Anaphora Literary Arts, a nonprofit organization that advocates for writers and artists of color. Her new collection, Nomenclatures of Invisibility, is forthcoming from BOA Editions (2023).


  • Leslie Shimotakahara

    Leslie Shimotakahara’s memoir, The Reading List, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize. Her second novel, Red Oblivion, was recently published by Dundurn Press.



  • Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl

    Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl was born in Tehran in 1981. She received her doctorate in linguistics and Persian literature. She writes fiction in addition to being a practicing translator into Persian herself. Her short-story collection This May Be the Only Way (2015) and her novel Mana (2017) have been published in Iran. “Anahita” appears in This May Be the Only Way.



  • Mikhail Shishkin

    Mikhail Shishkin is a prominent author of fiction and essays. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Russian Booker, the National Bestseller Prize, the Big Book Prize, and, most recently, the Italian Strega Prize. He is a long-standing and outspoken critic of the Putin regime whose essays have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde, and elsewhere. Since 1995, he has lived and worked in Switzerland.


  • Shizue Ogawa

    Shizue Ogawa grew up in Memuro, a village near Obihiro in southeast Hokkaido. She writes in both Japanese and English, and her first published work appeared in Over the Oceans: 14 Bilingual Poems by 14 Poets. Water: A Soul at Play is her first book of free verse. Shizue's website is www.poems-poems.com.



  • David Shook

    Poet David Shook’s most recent book-length translations include Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Room in Rome, a finalist for the PEN Award and National Translation Award. Their forthcoming books include a new translation of Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon and a collection of Spanish-language poetry, Atlas estelar.



  • Heather J. Shotton

    Heather J. Shotton is a citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and is also a Cheyenne and Kiowa descendant. She is an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She served as co-editor for the recently released books Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education (Rutgers University Press) and Beyond Access: Indigenizing Programs for Native American Student Success (Stylus Publishing).



  • Kim Shuck

    Kim Shuck is a poet and bead artist. She is the oldest daughter of Tsalagi and Goral families. Her poems can be found in packets of coffee, many literature periodicals, both online and paper, and in the pockets and notebooks of students. Her most recent book is Clouds Running In.



  • Mahmoud Shukair

    Mahmoud Shukair was born in Jerusalem in 1941. He is the author of more than seventy books of short stories and novels, which have been translated into many languages. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Mahmoud Darwish Prize for Freedom and Creativity (2011) and the Jerusalem Prize for Culture and Creativity (2015).


  • Alda Sigmundsdóttir

    Alda Sigmundsdóttir is a writer, translator, journalist, and blogger. She is the author of several books about Iceland, including Unraveled: A Novel about a Meltdown and The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Old Days. Raised in Canada and having lived in both the UK and Germany, she is now based in Reykjavík. 



  • ire’ne lara silva

    ire’ne lara silva (irenelarasilva.wordpress.com) is the author of four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI / House of Song, and FirstPoems, and a short-story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. A new poetry collection, the eaters of flowers, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024.



  • Gunter Silva

    Gunter Silva has published a collection of short stories, Crónicas de Londres (2012), and a novel, Pasos Pesados (2016). He studied law and political science at the Universidad Católica de Santa María in Peru and holds a BA in arts and humanities and also completed an MA in creative writing at the University of Westminster.



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    Kevin Simmonds

    Kevin Simmonds is a poet and musician originally from New Orleans. His full-length collections include Mad for Meat and Bend to It, the edited anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, and, most recently, the chapbook The Noh of Dorian Corey. He lives in San Francisco.



  • Sam Simmons

    Sam Simmons is a writer from San Jose, California. He is currently a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz, majoring in literature.



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    Daniel Simon

    Daniel Simon is a poet, essayist, translator, and WLT’s assistant director and editor in chief. His 2017 edited volume, Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017, won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. His most recent edited collection, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Deep Vellum/Phoneme, 2020), was a Publishers Weekly starred pick. Under a Gathering Sky, his third book of poems, is forthcoming from SFA Press in April 2024.



  • Sofia Simon

    Sofia Simon is currently a junior at Norman High School. She plans on studying environmental science in college.


  • Ellie Simon

    Ellie Simon is an undergraduate at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She intends to major in biology on the evolution and ecology track. She calls Norman, Oklahoma, home, where her family resides.



  • Cecilia Simon

    Cecilia Simon is a junior at the University of Oklahoma. She is studying psychology and pre-medicine, with a minor in Spanish. She hopes to attend the OU College of Medicine and become a pediatric psychiatrist.



  • Ekaterina Simonova

    Ekaterina Simonova is a Russian poet and literary critic from Nizhny Tagil in the Ural region. Her latest collection is Два ее единственных платья (Her only two dresses, 2020), and several of her poems appeared in the English-language anthology Ф Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry, published in 2020. She lives in Yekaterinburg.



  • Kedarnath Singh

    Kedarnath Singh (1934–2018) was a poet, critic, and essayist of Hindi literature. He received the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, in 2013. His anthologies include Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Yahan Se Dekho, Zameen Pak Rahi hai, Akaal Mein Saaras, and Bagh.



  • Jaspreet Singh

    Jaspreet Singh’s short pieces have appeared in Granta, Brick, Walrus, Zoetrope, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the New York Times. He is the author of the poetry collections November and How to Hold a Pebble; the novels Helium, Chef, and Face; the story collection Seventeen Tomatoes; and the memoir My Mother, My Translator. Dreams of the Epoch and the Rock, his newest book, will be published this fall.



  • Kalpna Singh-Chitnis

    Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an Indian-American poet, writer, filmmaker, and author of four poetry collections. Her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in notable journals worldwide, and her works have been translated into many languages. Poems from her award-winning book Bare Soul and a poetry film, River of Songs, included in the Nova Collection and the Polaris Collection of the Lunar Codex time capsules, are set to go to the moon with NASA’s Nova-C lander missions to Oceanus Procellarum in 2022 and NASA’s Viper rover mission to the lunar south pole in 2023. Her forthcoming poetry collection, Trespassing My Ancestral Lands, is in the making.


  • Leonardo Sinisgalli

    Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908–81) was an Italian poet and art critic active from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was born in Montemurro, Basilicata, and studied engineering and mathematics in Rome. After completing his engineering degree in 1932, he moved to Milan where he worked as an architect and graphic artist. He was a close friend of the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti and painter Scipione. He worked on architecture and graphic-design projects in Milan. Sinisgalli's writing focused on themes from ancenstral southern Italian myths, the conflicts of existentialism and realism, and the scientific culture of the day. Sinisgalli founded and managed the magazine Civiltà delle Macchine (1953–59). He also created two documentaries that consecutively won awards at the Biennale di Venezia and edited radio broadcasting programs. He died in Rome in 1981. (Adapted from Wikipedia)



  • Krzysztof Siwczyk

    Polish poet and essayist Krzysztof Siwczyk (b. 1977) is the author of seventeen collections of poems and six books of literary criticism, essays, and prose. He is a laureate of the Kościelski Foundation Award, the Gdynia Literary Award in the essay category, the Silesius Poetry Award, and the Václav Burian Award. He also played the main roles in two feature films: Wojaczek (directed by Lech Majewski, 1999) and Wyexpony (directed by Adam Sikora, 2010). He lives in Gliwice.



  • Gianni Skaragas

    Gianni Skaragas is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. His English work includes Prime Numbers (2009) and, most recently, The Lady of Ro and Other Stories. His awards and fellowships include honors from organizations in the US and Europe and the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize in Prose (University of Colorado, 2018). His most recent contribution to WLT, “The History of Grains,” appeared in the September 2017 issue.



  • Jake Skeets

    Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné and holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a winner of the 2018 Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Prize. His debut collection, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, was selected by Kathy Fagan for Milkweed as a winner for the 2018 National Poetry Series. He currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.



  • Alexander Skidan

    Alexander Skidan is a poet, critic, essayist, and translator. He is the author of more than ten books, including, in English, Red Shifting and the pamphlet Golem Soveticus: Prigov as Brecht and Warhol in One Persona. He has been recognized with the Andrei Bely Prize and a Joseph Brodsky Fellowship. Skidan is a member of the working group “What is to be done?” and editor of the “Practice” section of New Literary Review. He lives and works in Saint Petersburg and Tbilisi, Georgia.



  • Josef Škvorecký

    Josef Škvorecký (1924-2012) was a writer and publisher. After receiveing his PhD in Philosophy, Škvorecký began to write novels, which were banned by the Communist government in Czechoslovakia. Many of his works espoused democratic ideals that threatened the state of the government, but his novels helped to usher in the Prague Spring in 1968. When the Russian army invaded Czechoslovakia that same year, Škvorecký and his wife found asylum in Canada, where the pair founded a publishing house that emphasized the publication of banned Czech and Slovak books. Škvorecký remained in Canada for the remainder of his life. He won the 1980 Neustadt Prize.


  • Scott Slovic

    Scott Slovic served as the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. After teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno, for seventeen years, he became professor of literature and environment at the University of Idaho in 2012. The author, editor, or coeditor of twenty books in the field of ecocriticism and environmental literature, his most recent publication is Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism, which he coedited with Indian scholars Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, Japan, and China, and he frequently lectures and teaches in far-flung regions of the world.



  • Stevi Smith

    Stevi Smith is a junior at the University of Oklahoma pursuing an English writing degree with a minor in women’s and gender studies. She has a short story published in the Tulsa Review and won the Lydia Dorothea Haag Award in spring 2022. Upon graduation, she plans to pursue a career in novel editing. She grew up in Collinsville, Oklahoma.