Zubair Ahmed is a Bengali-American poet and the author of City of Rivers (McSweeney’s, 2012). He lives in Oakland, California.
The poet Ai was noted for her uncompromising poetic vision and dramatic monologues which give voice to marginalized, poor, and abused speakers. She was born Florence Anthony, and she legally...
Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian writer, politician, and academic whose work problematized the paradoxes of modern African identity, particularly for women. She served as Ghana’s Minister of Education from...
Although he received the most prestigious of literary awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 and a National Book Award in 1954, along with the critical acclaim of some of...
Robert Aitken is a retired master of the Diamond Sangha, a Zen Buddhist society he founded in Honolulu in 1959 with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken. Now at age...
Susan Aizenberg's first full-length collection of poems, Muse (2002), was awarded Virginia Commonwealth University's Larry Levis Prize and the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. She is the coeditor, with Erin Belieu,...
Humberto Ak’abal was a K’iche’ Maya poet from Guatemala. His book Guardián de la caída de agua (Guardian of the Waterfall), published by Serviprensa Centroamericana, was named book of the...
AKaiser is an NEA-awarded translator of Catalan, French, and Spanish. AKaiser is the author of glint (Milk and Cake Press, 2020) and is currently translating Anna Gual’s selected poems.
Turkish-American poet and performer Sara Deniz Akant was born and raised in New York. She is the author of Babette (Rescue Press, 2015), selected by Maggie Nelson; Parades (Omnidawn, 2014),...
Kaveh Akbar is the author of Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf Press, 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017; Penguin UK, 2018). He is also the author of...
Poet, children’s writer, and naturalist Ellery Akers earned a BA at Harvard University and an MA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of three poetry collections: Swerve:...
Anna Akhmatova is regarded as one of Russia’s greatest poets. In addition to poetry, she wrote prose including memoirs, autobiographical pieces, and literary scholarship on Russian writers such as Aleksandr...
Yosano Akiko is one of the best-known female poets from post-classical Japan. Her work is celebrated for its eroticism and emotional explicitness; the publication of her first collection of poetry,...
Ibn Al-`Arabi was known as the “The Greatest Master” (al-shaykh al-akbar) of Islamic mystical thought. He died in Damascus in 1240.
Nazik al-Mala'ika was born in Baghdad. She earned an undergraduate degree at the College of Arts in Baghdad and an MA in comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She...
Imru al-Qays was a sixth-century poet and prince of the Kindite kingdom of Northern and Central Arabia.
Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press, 2021),...
Meera Alagaraja (she/her) is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M in 2023, she...
A prolific writer for adults and children, Francisco X. Alarcón was born in California and grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico. Alarcón returned to the United States to attend California State...
Sally Alatalo’s practice percolates in the hybrid realms of language collage, visual poetry, artists’ books, unruly archives and performative events. Her current projects originate in the rehabilitation of an orchard...
