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Authors
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Rachel Smith
Rachel Smith is a former WLT intern and recently graduated with a degree in English literature from the University of Oklahoma.
Stevi L. Smith
Stevi Smith attended the University of Oklahoma in pursuit of a BA in English (writing) with a minor in women’s and gender studies. She has a short story published in the Tulsa Review entitled “Daisies,” which won second place in the Tulsa Review writing contest. She won the Lydia Dorothea Haag Award in spring of 2022 for superior creative writing as a newly enrolled English major. She interned with WLT during her junior year and plans to pursue a career in novel editing. Stevi is passionate about women’s rights; she often writes about her own experiences as a woman dealing with medical professionals with the hope of spreading awareness of women’s medical legitimacy. She grew up in Collinsville, Oklahoma, and hopes to work for a major publishing company upon receiving her bachelor’s degree.
Mitchell P. Smith
Mitchell P. Smith is professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the University of Oklahoma's College of International Studies. He has been a European Union Fulbright Fellow in Belgium and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has authored, co-authored, or edited several books on the European Union and is completing a book about the deep perceptual divide in the United States and how it is damaging democracy. His essay “Soft Power Rising: Romantic Europe in the Service of Practical Europe” appeared in the January 2006 issue of WLT.
Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist. She is a Guggenheim fellow; an NEA grant recipient; a former fellow at Civitella Ranieri, Yaddo, and MacDowell; a professor in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College; and a distinguished professor for the City University of New York. She was also a nominee for the 2018 Neustadt Prize.
Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffithsdiv>Tracy K. Smith
Poet, librettist, and translator Tracy K. Smith served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States and is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where she also chairs the Lewis Center for the Arts. The author of four books of poems, she received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. In October, Graywolf Press will publish Such Color: New and Selected Poems. She will deliver the keynote at the “Reflecting on the Past, Facing the Future” symposium on April 9, 2021.
Brian Sneeden
Brian Sneeden’s first collection of poems, Last City, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018). His poems and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications, and translations of his poetry have been published in Greek, Albanian, and Serbian. His translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s collection, Homerica, is forthcoming from the inaugural series of World Poetry Books (2017).
© Andrés Felipe Solano <br /> c/o Guillermo Schavelzon & <br />Asociados, Agencia Literariadiv>Andrés Felipe Solano
Andrés Felipe Solano (b. 1977, Bogotá) is the author of two novels, Sálvame, Joe Louis (2007) and Los hermanos Cuervo (2012). In 2008 he was a finalist for the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano Prize for his report “Six Months on Minimum Wage,” which was included in Lo mejor del periodismo en América Latina (2009).
In 2010 Granta selected him for inclusion in its list of twenty-two “Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists.”
Lindantonella Solano Mendoza
Lindantonella Solano Mendoza (b. 1975) is a Wayuu poet, psychologist, educator, and human rights leader in Guajira, Colombia. Author of the poetry collection Kashi de 7 eneros desde el vientre de Süchiimma (2009), she has founded several organizations to support arts, civic action, mental health, and human rights, and has won numerous awards for her literary and activist work.
Photo: Víctor Mendioladiv>Milena Solot
Milena Solot has been published in Asymptote Journal, Words Without Borders, and other journals. Born in Mexico City, Solot now lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, where she’s presently working on a novel, a satire with a female protagonist, for which she’s been awarded the Jóvenes Creadores grant by FONCA, the National Fund for Culture and Arts.
Armonía Somers
Armonía Somers (1914–1994), the pen name of Armonía Liropeya Etchepare Locino, was a Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, novelist, and short-story writer. Her first novel, The Naked Woman, is available from the Feminist Press.
Chris Song
Chris Song is executive director of the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong. He won Extraordinary Mention in the Nosside World Poetry Prize from Italy (2013), and he is a recipient of the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Thammika Songkaeo
Thammika Songkaeo is a Thai writer living in Singapore. An MFA student in nonfiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts, she is working on her first book of essays, on family and isolation, as well as a novel on solitude. Thammika is a graduate of Bread Loaf in Sicily, Williams College, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, and the Japanese Language School at Middlebury College.
Carlos Soto-Román
Carlos Soto-Román is a poet and translator. Author of 11 (Municipal Poetry Prize, Santiago, 2018), he has published Chile Project: [Re-Classified] (2013), Bluff (2018), Common Sense (2019), and Nature of Objects (2019), among others. He is also the author of the first translation of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust into Spanish. He lives and works in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Silviu Guiman
Photo by Timothy Ruszaladiv>C. Luke Soucy
C. Luke Soucy is a translator, poet, and classicist specializing in Roman literature. He is a 2019 graduate of Princeton University, where he majored in English, muddled through Latin, and received the E. E. Cummings Society Prize of the Academy of American Poets. His blank verse translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, out this fall, is the first to use the same number of lines as the original. He is the first nonwhite, first Gen Z, and first queer person to translate the poem.
Rokiatou Soumaré
Rokiatou Soumaré is a PhD candidate in francophone sub-Saharan literature at the University of Oklahoma, where she is currently writing her dissertation on Alain Mabanckou’s work. Prior to enrolling at OU, she graduated from the University of Perpignan, France, with a bachelor’s in city planning and a master’s in tourism and hospitality management.
Lana Spendl
Lana Spendl is the author of the chapbook of flash fiction We Cradled Each Other in the Air. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hobart, Greensboro Review, Notre Dame Review, New Ohio Review, Zone 3, and other journals. She is a refugee from the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and her childhood was divided between Bosnia and Spain prior to her family’s move to the States.
Photo by Landen Swearingendiv>Linda Stack-Nelson
Linda Stack-Nelson is a WLT intern studying English literature at the University of Oklahoma. After graduation, she plans to work in publishing and looks forward to increasing her book-buying budget.
Kim Stafford
Kim Stafford is emeritus professor at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. He writes, teaches, and travels to raise the human spirit through poetry. His most recent poetry collection is As the Sky Begins to Change (Red Hen Press, 2024).
Photo by Cesar Birgerdiv>Yael Statman
Yael Statman is a developmental and education psychologist in Tel Aviv. Her debut collection, Concerning That Burning, was published in Hebrew in 2021 and received the Rabinovich Prize from the city of Tel Aviv. Her poems have appeared in major literary publications in Israel including Haaretz, Moznaim, Ho!, as well as in English translation in the Tel Aviv Review of Books.
Photo by Elya Landaudiv>Shira Stav
Shira Stav is a scholar of Hebrew literature and a poet, translator, and literary critic. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She has published two collections of poetry. Stav won the 2009 Bernstein Prize for literary criticism, the 2007 Teva Award for young Hebrew poets, and the 2013 Bernstein Prize for poetry.
Photo by Kevin Guttingdiv>Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, the co-founder of the Great Books Summer Program, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. His award-winning books include, most recently, Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook (2024, co-written with Margaret E. Boyle) and, due out soon, Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl, Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction, and the children’s book The Secret Recipe. His work, adapted into film, theater, TV, and radio, has been translated into twenty languages.
Alina Stefanescu
Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (2020), and Dor (2021), which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize. Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On (2018), won the Brighthorse Books Prize. She serves as poetry editor for several journals, reviewer and critic for others, and co-director of PEN America’s Birmingham Chapter.
