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Authors
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Liliana Viola
Liliana Viola (b. 1963, Buenos Aires) is a writer and journalist. She founded and edited SOY, the first and only LGBTQ+ supplement published by a national newspaper (Página/12) in Argentina. Her books include a biography of Argentina’s most successful soap opera writer, Migré, and a biography of the writer Aurora Venturini, Esta no soy yo.
András Visky
András Visky is a Hungarian-Romanian poet, essayist, and playwright whose plays have been staged in several countries. He has a doctor of liberal arts from the University of Theatre and Film, Budapest, and is a co-founder and the former executive director of Koinónia Publishing. Photo by Kiss Gábor.
Photo by Johnathon Williamsdiv>Padma Viswanathan
Padma Viswanathan is the author of two novels, The Toss of a Lemon and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, published in eight countries and shortlisted for major prizes, and short stories published in such journals as Granta Online and the Boston Review. She has also written plays, personal essays, cultural journalism, and reviews. Her translation of the Graciliano Ramos novel São Bernardo is forthcoming from New York Review Books in their Classics series.
Marianna Vitale
Marianna Vitale (b. 1993) was born and raised in Rimini, a popular beach resort on Italy’s Adriatic coast. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Scuola Holden and currently works as a copywriter. Her recent fiction has appeared in Rivista Blam and Tropismi.
Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a citizen of the White Earth Nation and has published more than forty books. Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity (2019), a collection of essays, is his most recent publication. Vizenor has received many awards, including the Mark Twain Award.
Emily Vizzo
Journalist and poet Emily Vizzo is the author of the verse collection Giantess (YesYes Books, 2018). She actively volunteers with Writers Resist Los Angeles.
Oleg Vladimirsky
Oleg Vladimirsky lives in Odesa, where he works as a photojournalist at Odesa Evening News.
Tiffanie Vo
Tiffanie Vo is a WLT intern studying human relations and sociology at the University of Oklahoma. She is passionate about sharing her Vietnamese culture and advocating for Asian American rights. When she’s not studying, she is performing spoken word at local open mics and taking kickboxing classes four times a week.
Photo by Dmitry Rozhkovdiv>Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, also spelled Voynovich (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Войно́вич) (born 26 September 1932), is a Russian (formerly Soviet) writer and a dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature.
Tatiana Voltskaya
Tatiana Voltskaya is the author of fifteen published poetry collections, including Cicada (2006) and Trostdroppar (2009). A PEN Club member, she is also the winner of multiple national and international poetry prizes. Since 2000 Voltskaya has worked as an editor and correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, one of the few sources of credible news in the Russian Federation. Surveilled by the Russian secret service agency, the FSB, and officially branded a “foreign agent” in Russia, Voltskaya felt forced to flee her home country and does not know how long her exile might last.
Ute von Funcke
Ute von Funcke, who wrote plays for children before turning to poetry in 2004, has published four collections of poems, most recently in den rissen der zeit (“in the fissures of time”; scaneg Verlag, 2018). A selection of her poetry, translated by Stuart Friebert, Between Question & Answer, appeared in 2018 from Pinyon Press. A companion volume, Shadow of Shadows, will soon follow from Black Mountain Press.
William Voskergian
William Voskergian was born in Jerusalem in 1949. His father, a survivor of the Armenian massacres during the Ottoman Empire, was smuggled into Palestine by William’s grandfather, through the Syrian desert, when he was twelve years old in 1915. His mother is a Palestinian refugee from Nazareth. He is the author of six books of short stories and novels. He has been a teacher of oriental music and a schoolteacher for over forty years.
Abdourahman A. Waberi
Abdourahman A. Waberi, from Djibouti, is a major voice in African postcolonial studies. He has received a multitude of honors, including a PEN France prize and a medal from the Académie française. Since 2012, he has been a professor of French and francophone studies at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Hope Wabuke
Hope Wabuke is a poet, writer, and assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Alex Wade
Writer and lawyer Alex Wade has written for broadsheets across the UK, including the Times Literary Supplement. The author of three nonfiction books, his first novel is Flack’s Last Shift.
Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Rebecca L. Walkowitz is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English and affiliate faculty in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation (2006) and Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature (2015) and editor or coeditor of eight books, including A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism (2016).
Oleksandra Wallo
Oleksandra Wallo is the author of Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan (University of Toronto Press, 2020) as well as articles on contemporary Ukrainian literature and film. An associate professor at the University of Kansas, her current research project examines the New Drama phenomenon in Ukraine.
Wang Ping
Wang Ping has published thirteen books of poetry and prose. She’s the recipient of NEA, Bush, Lannan, and McKnight fellowships, director of the Kinship of Rivers project, and professor of English at Macalester College. Her multimedia exhibitions include Behind the Gate: After the Flood of the Three Gorges and We Are Water: Kinship of Rivers.
Wang Xiaosong
Wang Xiaosong is an art critic, independent curator, and columnist. Wang received his PhD from the Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2015. He was a postdoc at Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2017. Wang Xiaosong photo by Ouyang Yong
Wang Anyi
The fifth laureate of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, Wang Anyi moved to Shanghai with her family when she was one year old. Like her mother, writer Ru Zhijuan (1925–98), Wang pursued a literary career and became very successful in the early 1980s. Wang is prolific and innovative: she writes consistently about the history intimately intertwined with her personal memories, and she writes profusely about Shanghai. Several of her representative works, including Lapse of Time, Brocade Valley, Love on a Barren Mountain, Love in a Small Town, and Song of Everlasting Sorrow, are available in English translations.
Eleanor Wasserberg
Eleanor Wasserberg (@e_wasserberg) studied at Oxford University and has a creative writing MA from the University of East Anglia. She’s lived in Paris and London and was awarded a writing grant from the UK Arts Council to complete her debut novel, Foxlowe (2017). She now lives in Norwich, UK.
Photo by Amber Boardmandiv>Lauren K. Watel
Lauren K. Watel’s debut volume, Book of Potions, a collection of prose poetry, was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and will be published in fall 2024 by Sarabande Books. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have appeared widely.
