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Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff is the author of several books, most recently the novel Old School and the story collection Our Story Begins. He teaches at Stanford University.
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Quyen Nguyen
Quyen Nguyen is a rising junior at Stanford, majoring in Comparative Literature and Economics.
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Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is the first young poet laureate for London. Born in 1988, Warsan has read her work extensively all over Britain and internationally—including recent readings in South Africa, Italy, Germany, Canada, America and Kenya. Her début collection, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth (flipped eye), was published in 2011. In 2013, she won the Inaugural African Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in Wasafiri, Magma, and Poetry Review and in the anthology The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011). She is the current poetry editor at SPOOK magazine. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, and Estonian. She curates and teaches classes around the art of healing through narrative and poetry. Warsan is also the 2014 Queensland, Australia poet in residence.
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Ladan Osman
Ladan Osman is the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund's 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her manuscript, The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (University of Nebraska Press). She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Michener Center for Writers. A 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, Artful Dodge, Broadsided, Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, and Vinyl Poetry. She lives in Chicago.
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Nick Makoha
Born in Uganda, Nick Makoha fled the country with his mother, as a result of political dictatorship of Idi Amin. He represented Uganda in the Poetry Parnassus as part of the Cultural Olympiad. A former Writer in Residence for Newham Libraries, his one-man show, My Father & Other Superheroes, debuted to sold-out performances at both the 2013 London Literature Festival and a special Father’s day performance at the Unicorn Theatre. A national tour launches at the end of 2014. He has been a panelist at both the inaugural Being A Man Festival (“Fatherhood: Past, Present & Future”) and Women Of The World Festival (“Bringing Up Boys”). In 2005, award-winning publisher Flippedeye launched its pamphlet series with his debut collection, The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man.
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Tsitsi Jaji
Tsitsi Jaji was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and teaches at University of Pennsylvania. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry International, Bitter Oleander, Black Renaissance/Noire, Runes and elsewhere. Her book Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music and Pan-African Solidarity came out earlier this year.
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Clifton Gachagua
Clifton Gachagua is the winner of the 2013 Sillerman Prize for African Poetry. His collection, Madman at Kilifi was published by University of Nebraska Press. He was recently selected for Africa39, a selection of thirty-nine of the most promising authors under the age of 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. Gachagua works at Kwani? as an assistant editor.
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), finalist for both the Miller Williams Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems appear in The Missouri Review, FIELD, AGNI Online, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Journal, Mid-American Review, and others. A fellow at The Kenyon Review from 2012-2014, Rogers recently moved to New Orleans, where she now teaches creative writing at Tulane University.
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Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2021) was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Ann Lauterbach
Ann Lauterbach grew up in New York City and studied literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; she continued to study literature at Columbia University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She moved to London where she worked in publishing and in the art world for seven years. When she returned to Manhattan, Lauterbach worked in art galleries until she began her long career as a teacher of literature, visual art, and writing; she has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Princeton University, the City College of New York, and has been a visiting art critic at the Yale Graduate School of the Arts. Currently, she lives in Germantown, N.Y., where she is Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College and co-Chair of Writing in Bard’s MFA Program. She is the author of many books of poetry, including Under the Sign (2013); Or to Begin Again (2009), which was nominated for the National Book Award; Hum (2005); If in Time: Selected Poems 1975–2000 (2001); On a Stair (1997); And for Example (1994); Clamor (1991); Before Recollection (1987); and Many Times, but Then (1979). Lauterbach has collaborated with many artists on books and written extensively about art; she is also the author of three books of prose: Saint Petersburg Notebook (2014), The Given and the Chosen (2011), and The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2008). The recipient of many awards, Lauterbach has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation; additionally, in 2012 she was named the Sherry Distinguished Poet at the University of Chicago. Her work has been translated into German, Spanish and French.
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