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Sep 17, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Sangamithra Iyer |Renee H. Shea
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. James Baldwin, whose hundredth birthday we recently celebrated, once declared that besides bearing witness to America’s perennial and intolerable abuse of its Black and colored citizens, his vision as an artist was to “build a table” on which people would “eat for a thousand years.” African Americans like James E. Cherry who grew up reading Baldwin were inspired by his gift of courage and truth-telling.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Ipek Sahinler |Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Renee H. Shea
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Described by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans have never heard of,” Lyn Coffin (b. 1943) is a prolific contemporary US poet, writer, and literary translator. Her impressive career spans more than five decades, during which she’s published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and translation.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Chard deNiord |Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Renee H. Shea
Maureen Freely is an author, translator, and professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. Among her many translations is Dawn, by Sevgi Soysal, which transpires over one night spent in prison. A novel from the 1970s, Archipelago published the first English version, in Freely’s translation, in 2022.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Michelle Johnson |Renee H. Shea
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Zhang Ling is the author of ten novels, including A Single Swallow (trans. Shelly Bryant) and Where Waters Meet, the first two novels in her Children of War trilogy. Focusing on war, trauma, and human courage, her work fights against collective oblivion and fosters empathy and understanding. Yan Lu: The trilogy Children of War is your first focused attempt at the subject of war.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Renee H. Shea |Aitana Bellido
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. On March 26, 2024, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop co-sponsored an event at Yu and Me Books to celebrate the New York City launch of Parul Kapur’s debut novel, Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel. Parul was born in Assam, India, and raised in the United States. Her fiction appears in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Prime Number, and more.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Renee H. Shea |Michelle Johnson |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Susan Blumberg-Kason
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Vonani Bila (b. 1972) grew up in Shirley Village, Limpopo province, South Africa, from where he used to walk fourteen kilometers daily to Lemana High School in Elim. He is a poet, essayist, cultural activist, founding editor of the poetry journal Timbila, publisher of Timbila Books, curator of the Vhembe International Poetry festival, and founder of Timbila Writers’ Village, a rural retreat center for writers.
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May 16, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Xixuan Collins |Michelle Johnson |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Renee H. Shea
On April 20, 2024, Stephanie Pacheco was named the 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate, the eighth person to hold that title. A fierce advocate for educational equity and social justice, she was the New York City Poet Laureate from 2022 to 2024 and the inaugural New York State Poet Laureate from 2023 to 2024. Pacheco began performing her poetry as a young high school student and has been welcomed at venues that include the Apollo Theatre and the Schomburg Center in New York City.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Renee H. Shea
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Two-time Pushcart Prize nominee Miho Kinnas recently published Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias, her third book of poetry. Her two other collections, Today, Fish Only (2015) and Move Over, Bird (2019), were both published by Math Paper Press, which is based in Singapore. Her poem “Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon” was selected for Best American Poetry 2023. We Eclipse into the Other Side (Pinyon), which she and E.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Renee H. Shea
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Born and raised in Khammam, a small town in the state of Telangana, India, Nishanth Injam published The Best Possible Experience, his debut short-story collection, in July 2023. He immigrated to the United States in 2011 as a graduate student in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. With his MS in hand, he moved to the Midwest in 2013 to work at the Chicago Tribune as a software engineer.
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May 30, 2023 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Xixuan Collins |Michelle Johnson |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Renee H. Shea
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Award-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea describes Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023) as “the book I have spent most of my life preparing to write.” This novel is inspired by his mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlin, and by Jill Pitts Knappenberger for their work in World War II as part of the American Red Cross Clubmobile Service.
