Kat Addis lives in Brighton, United Kingdom, and is the author of Space Parsley (the87press, 2021).
Kim Addonizio was born in Washington DC, the daughter of a former tennis champion and a sports writer. She attended college in San Francisco, earning both her BA and MA...
Annik Adey-Babinski grew up in Ottawa, Canada. Her first book of poetry, Okay Cool No Smoking Love Pony, was published by Word Works in 2017. She lives with her family in...
Jamaican poet and writer Opal Palmer Adisa was born in Kingston. After a childhood education in British colonialist writers, Adisa came to the United States at the age of 15...
Lucy Adkins grew up in rural Nebraska, and she attended country schools and the University of Nebraska before earning a BA from Auburn University. She is the author of the...
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Cornell University. His first scholarly monograph is Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry (2016). He is also the author...
Poet, essayist, and painter Etel Adnan was born in Beirut, Lebanon. The daughter of a Greek Christian mother and a Syrian Muslim father, she spoke both Greek and Arabic with...
Arab poet, translator, editor, and theorist Ali Ahmad Said Esber was the eldest of six children born to a family of farmers in Syria’s Al Qassabin village. Though they could...
Adedayo Agarau is a Robert Hayden Scholarship fellow and a recipient of the Stanley Award for International Research at the University of Iowa. He currently attends the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin (he/him) is the author of The Sign of the Ram (APBF/Akashic Books, 2023). His poems have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, TheCincinnati Review, Guernica, TheKenyon Review, Pleiades,...
Poet, novelist, and activist James Rufus Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was six years old when his father, a postal worker, died in a car accident. After his...
Isabela Agosa teaches writing and Indigenous Studies at Kalamazoo College. She is a descendant of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.
Marjorie Agosín was raised in Chile, the daughter of Jewish parents. Heeding rumors of the coup that would install Augusto Pinochet, Agosín’s family left the country for the United States,...
Kathleen Aguero is the author of several poetry collections, including After That (Tiger Bark Press), Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth (Cervena Barva Press), Daughter Of (Cedar Hill Books), The Real Weather...
Puerto Rican poet, activist, and translator Jack Agüeros was born in 1934 in New York City. He served as director of El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem for nearly...
Daniela Ema Aguinsky is a writer and filmmaker based in Argentina.
Liz Ahl earned a BFA in creative writing from Emerson College, an MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln....
Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) and Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011) which won the Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry awarded by the...
Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. He is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi.
