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Authors
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Ruth Gilligan
Ruth Gilligan is an Irish novelist, journalist, and creative writing lecturer now living in the UK. Her fourth novel, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan (Tin House Books 2017), was inspired by the history of the Jewish community in Ireland; read Lanie Tankard’s review of the novel from the May 2017 issue of WLT. Gilligan contributes regular literary reviews to the Guardian, TLS, Irish Independent, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Dana Gioia
Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent, Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. The first person in his family to attend college, he received degrees from Stanford and Harvard. Former California Poet Laureate and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, his most recent collection is Meet Me at the Lighthouse (Graywolf, 2023).
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay is the author of three books of poems, most recently the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016), for which she was a finalist for the 2018 Neustadt Prize. Girmay is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and is the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (2020).
Ani Gjika
Ani Gjika (@Ani_Gjika) is an Albanian-born writer, author, and translator of eight books and chapbooks of poetry. Her translation of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Negative Space (New Directions / Bloodaxe Books, 2018) was a PEN Award finalist and shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. The recipient of an NEA grant, English PEN, the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, and Pauline Scheer Fellowship from GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator Program, Gjika teaches writing at Framingham State University. Her translation of the eponymous poem of Negative Space appeared in the digital edition of the November 2014 issue of WLT, along with the poems “History Class” and “According to Index.”
Sergei Glavatskii
Sergei Glavatskii is a poet and writer from Odesa whose work has appeared in numerous journals in Ukraine, including Deti Ra.
Erik Gleibermann
Erik Gleibermann is a WLT contributing editor, social-justice journalist, literary critic, memoirist, and poet. He has written for the Atlantic, New York Times, Oprah Daily, Washington Post, Guardian, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and numerous other literary journals. His work-in-progress is Jewfro American: An Interracial Memoir.
Nora Glickman
Nora Glickman is a dramatist, fiction writer, and literary critic, who serves as a professor of Latin American and comparative literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center. Her specialties are Jewish literature and women’s studies in fiction and cinema.
Eugene Gloria
Eugene Gloria’s recent works have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and the Best American Poetry 2014. His third collection, My Favorite Warlord (Penguin, 2012), received the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry. He teaches creative writing and English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
Michael Favala Goldman
Danish translator Michael Favala Goldman (b. 1966) is also a poet, jazz clarinetist, gardener, and educator. Over 140 of Goldman’s translations and poems have appeared in dozens of journals such as the Harvard Review and the Columbia Journal. His translation of Dependency, by Tove Ditlevsen, is the third book in The Copenhagen Trilogy (Penguin Classics / FSG). His fifteen books include his own original poetry and works by Knud Sørensen, Cecil Bødker, Suzanne Brøgger, Benny Andersen, and others. He lives in western Massachusetts.
Adam Goldwyn
Adam Goldwyn is professor of English at North Dakota State University. His most recent books are Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II (2022) and Rae Dalven: The Life of a Greek-Jewish American (2021).
Adam J. Goldwyn
Adam J. Goldwyn is an associate professor of English at North Dakota State University. His most recent books include the biography Rae Dalven: The Life of a Greek-Jewish American (2022) and Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War 2 (2022).
Evgeny Golubovsky
Evgeny Golubovsky is a writer and editor in chief of the newspaper World Odessa News.
Bruna Gomes
Bruna Gomes is an Australian-Brazilian novelist and poet. She is the author of How to Disappear and Triple Citizenship. Gomes’s work is featured in various journals, including the Cordite Poetry Review, Paper Crane Journal, and the Columbia Review. In June 2022 she was a writer in residence at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy. Bruna is the recipient of the Fred Rush Convocation Prize.
Miguel Gomes
Miguel Gomes (b. 1964, Venezuela) is the award-winning author of eight collections of short fiction and one novel, Retrato de un Caballero (2015). His scholarly work has earned him such distinctions as the Orden Alejo Zuloaga, the Orden José Félix Ribas, and the José Martí Essay Award.
Rain C. Goméz
Rain C. Goméz won the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas 2009 First Book Award (Poetry) for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press, 2012). Currently working on her dissertation, “Gumbo Banaha Stories: Locating Louisiana Indians and Creoles in the Indigenous Diaspora of the American South,” she has also completed a second manuscript of poetry, “Miscegenation Round Dance: Poèmes Historiques.” Goméz’s writings have been published in SING: Indigenous Poetry of the Americas, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and others.
George Gömöri
George Gömöri is a Hungarian-born retired lecturer at the University of Cambridge and has been a member of the editorial board of Books Abroad/WLT since the late 1960s. He is a prizewinning poet and translator, now living in London. His Polish publications include a book of correspondence with Jerzy Giedroyc, editor of the émigré journal Kultura (2018).
Bárbara Renaud González
Bárbara Renaud González was born in Texas, in the shadow of the Goliad Mission and el golfo. Her father was a sharecropper from the King Ranch, and her mother sold chiclets on the streets in Mexico. Her first novel, Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? (University of Texas Press, 2009), is based on her mother’s story.
Gemma Gorga
Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968, where she is a professor of medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature. Author of six collections of poetry, her most recent volume is Mur (2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana.
Angélica Gorodischer
Angélica Gorodischer (b. 1928, Buenos Aires) has lived most of her life in Rosario, Argentina. The recipient of numerous awards, she is the author of some thirty books. Three of her novels have appeared in English: Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (2003); Trafalgar, translated by Amalia Gladhart (2013); and Prodigies, translated by Sue Burke (2015).
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov (b. 1968) is one of the most widely translated Bulgarian authors. His most recent poetry collection is Where We Are Not, winner of the 2016 Quill Award for Poetry. His second novel, The Physics of Sorrow (2015), was awarded the Jan Michalski Prize for literature and was a finalist for PEN Translation Prize.
Koushik Goswami
Koushik Goswami is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was a Humanities Visiting Scholar at the University of Exeter. Earlier, he completed his M.Phil in English from the University of Burdwan. He has published several articles in various journals, including “Rewriting Tibet in The Tibetan Suitcase: A Novel (2019) by Tsering Namgyal Khortsa” (Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities) and “The Tibetan Resistance Movement and Windhorse: In Conversation with Kaushik Barua” (World Literature Today). His areas of interest include South Asian literature, diaspora studies, and postcolonial literature.
Patricia Grace
2008 Neustadt Prize Laureate Patricia Grace was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives on the ancestral land of her father's people in Plimmerton, a small coastal community. Grace has been writing and publishing since the mid-1970s. Her previous awards include the New Zealand Fiction Award in 1987 and the Frankfurt Liberaturepreis in 1994 for her novel Potiki, which has been translated into several languages. She received the Hubert Church Prose Award for Best First Book for Waiariki in 1976. Dogside Story won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize in 2001 and was also long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her novel Tu was awarded the Deutz Medal for fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2005.
