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  • Reyna Grande

    Reyna Grande is the author of the best-selling memoir The Distance Between Us and its sequel, A Dream Called Home. She has received an American Book Award and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.



  • Mary B. Gray

    Mary B. Gray is a poet who recently received her master of fine arts from Oklahoma City University. Her work has been published in Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing, Territory Magazine, and For the Sonorous.



  • Anne Greeott

    Anne Greeott’s translations have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Journal of Italian Translation, Italian Poetry Review, Atticus Review, and are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest.


  • Chelsea Greer

    Chelsea Greer is a WLT intern.


  • Andrea Grice

    Andrea Grice is a WLT intern. Graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 2015, she intends to pursue a career in copyediting and creative writing. 



  • J’aime Griffith

    J’aime Griffith is currently a grad student at the University of Oklahoma studying modern dance in the OU School of Dance. She studied at Grambling State University and the Ailey School and began her professional career with Samba/Salsa Entertainment, Awaken Dance Theatre, and Atmosphere. For the OU School of Dance, she choreographed and designed/constructed costumes for Am I There Yet, Disposition (Young Choreographers Showcase, 2020, 2021), Our Spring Will Come, Headlines, Piping Tunes (Modernist Adventures in Music and Dance 2021), performed Ashes, Ashes, choreographed by Austin Hartel (Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, 2020), and taught modern dance level 1 and modern dance level 2. In her free time, she teaches modern dance at Freedom Dance Studio in Oklahoma City.


  • Suzette R. Grillot

    Suzette R. Grillot is Dean of the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she also serves as the William J. Crowe Jr. Chair in Geopolitics and Vice Provost of International Programs.



  • Hannah Grillot

    Hannah Grillot is an undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma pursuing degrees in dramaturgy, international development, and religious studies. During the school year, she is an intern for World Literature Today.



  • Lena Bezawork Grönlund

    Lena Bezawork Grönlund is a writer from Sweden, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her first novel, Slag, was published in Sweden in 2017. She has also published poetry in several journals.



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    Hagit Grossman

    Hagit Grossman, a writer living in Tel Aviv, is the author of Trembling of the City (Shearsman, 2016). She has been shortlisted for the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award. Her poems in translation have appeared in the New Yorker and in Poetry International.



  • Charo Guerra

    Cuban writer Charo Guerra (b. María del Rosario Guerra Ayala; Limonar, Matanzas, 1962) is author of the poetry collections Un sitio bajo el cielo (1991;, Vámonos a Icaria (1998), winner of the prestigious New Pines Prize; and Luna de los pobres (2011), awarded the José Jacinto Milanés Prize. She has also written the short-story collection Pasajes de la vida breve (2007). 



  • Victoria Guerrero Peirano

    Victoria Guerrero Peirano is a poet, teacher, and feminist activist. Her recent publication Y la muerte no tendrá dominio (2019) won the 2020 National Literature Prize. She is the author of five poetry collections, including a compilation of her poetry, Documentos de Barbarie (poetry 2002–2012) (2013), which won ProART in 2015. She cares about her dog and cat. She survives by teaching at the university.



  • Leila Guerriero

    Leila Guerriero (b. 1967, Argentina) is a journalist and editor. Her work regularly appears in top Spanish and Latin American publications. She has received numerous prizes and is the author of over a dozen books, including A Simple Story (New Directions, 2017). Her writing has been translated into many languages.



  • Marame Gueye

    Marame Gueye is associate professor of African and African diaspora literatures at East Carolina University. Her work is on verbal art, gender, language, and immigration. Dr. Gueye is also a scholar-activist of women’s rights in Senegal and its American diaspora.


  • Guo Jian

    Guo Jian is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. His books include The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and he co-translated Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962.



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    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Abdulrazak Gurnah is emeritus professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent. Born in Zanzibar, he is the author of the acclaimed novels Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise, Admiring Silence, By the Sea, Desertion, The Last Gift, and Gravel Heart. His latest book, Afterlives, was published in 2020. He served on the jury of the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, nominating J. M. Coetzee for the award.


  • Mikaël Gómez Guthart

    Mikaël Gómez Guthart (b. 1981, Paris) is a short-story writer and literary critic for La Nouvelle Revue Française and translator into French of Witold Gombrowicz, Miguel de Unamuno, Ricardo Piglia, and Alejandra Pizarnik, among others.



  • José Ángel Gutiérrez

    José Angel Gutiérrez (b. 1944) is considered one of the Four Horsemen of the Chicano Movement and founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas–Arlington. The author or co-author of seventeen books, he was most recently honored with the 2018 National Hispanic Hero Award from the US Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago.



  • Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

    Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón  (b. 1986, Caguas) is the author most recently of the novel Los días hábiles (2020) and the book of short stories Preciosos perdedores (2019). He has received the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña’s National Novel Prize in Puerto Rico (2012) as well as the Festival de la Palabra’s Premio Nuevas Voces (2015), a recognition of up-and-coming local writers. In 2017 he was selected by the Hay Festival as part of Bogotá39, a list of the best Latin American writers under the age of forty.


  • Lee Gutkind

    Lee Gutkind is founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org), the first and largest literary magazine in the world to publish nonfiction narrative exclusively. Gutkind is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Arizona State University. His most recent book is You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction—From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between.



  • Sean Guynes-Vishniac

    Sean Guynes-Vishniac (@guynesvishniac) is a PhD candidate in English at Michigan State University. He is editor of Punking Speculative Fiction (a special issue of Deletion, May 2018); co-editor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (forthcoming) and Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017); editor of The SFRA Review; and book reviews editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.



  • Barbara Haas

    Barbara Haas’s recent essays appear in The MacGuffin, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Terrain.org, and the Chariton Review. Her nonfiction is forthcoming from Isthmus, Lake Effect, and Delmarva Review.


  • Felix Haas

    Felix Haas grew up in Berlin and went to graduate school for physics and mathematics. Beside science and languages, he has always had a passion for literature. His writing has appeared in World Literature Today, literaturkritik.de, and the Fair Observer, among other publications. After years in different European, Northern, and Central American countries, he now lives in Zurich.



  • Paavo Haavikko

    Paavo Haavikko (1931-2008) was a Finnish poet and playwright. He published his first collection of poetry in 1951, at the age of twenty. After three more poetry collections, two three-act plays, and two novels, Haavikko's first English-translated piece was published in 1961. He is the laureate of the 1984 Neustadt Prize.



  • Hedy Habra

    Hedy Habra (HedyHabra.com) is the author of two poetry collections, Tea in Heliopolis (2013), winner of the USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award, and Under Brushstrokes (2015), inspired by visual art. Recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she is also the author of a story collection, Flying Carpets (2013), winner of the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention.



  • Ken Hada

    Ken Hada teaches American literatures at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. He has authored six books of poetry, including his latest: Bring an Extry Mule (VAC: Purple Flag Press, 2017). In April 2018, The Oklahoma Center for the Book presented Ken with the Glenda Carlile Distinguished Service Award.



  • Saliha Haddad

    Saliha Haddad is an Algerian writer and an editor at Botsotso and Hotazel Review magazine.



  • Will Hagle

    Will Hagle is a Los Angeles–based writer of fiction, nonfiction, and sketch comedy. His work has appeared in Complex, Noisey, Passion of the Weiss, Vinyl Me, Please, and more. He is currently pursuing an MFA in International Writing and Literary Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and he co-hosts the monthly reading series Dead Rabbits LA. Follow him on Twitter @willydasquid.



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    Óscar Hahn

    Óscar Hahn is one of Chile’s most important poets today and has been the nation’s poet laureate. For years he taught at the University of Iowa. He is known worldwide as a master of the sonnet form. His books include Poetic Sum (1965), Flower of the Enamored (1987), Profane Appearances (2001), and The Communicating Mirrors (2015), from which these two poems are derived.



  • Hussain Haidry

    Hussain Haidry is a poet, screenwriter, and lyricist. He was head of finance at a healthcare company in Kolkata until he left his job and moved to Mumbai to become a full-time writer. He started his career by performing at spoken-word poetry forums in Mumbai such as Kommune, then went on to write lyrics for films like Gurgaon, Qarib Qarib Single, and Mukkabaaz and web series like Chacha Vidhaayak Hai Humaare, Yeh Meri Family, and Tripling. As a screenwriter, he has co-written the Amazon web series Laakhon Mein Ek (season two) and is presently working on the dialogues of the film Takht.