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  • Jennifer Lobaugh

    Jennifer Lobaugh is an American poet and translator. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Southampton Review and New Poetry in Translation.



  • Erik R. Lofgren

    Erik R. Lofgren teaches Japanese language, literature, and film at Bucknell University and has been writing reviews for WLT for two decades. His research interests are in representations of sexual desire in film, and his most recent publication in this area is “Adapting Female Agency: Rape in The Outrage and Rashōmon” (Adaptation). He has also published translations of poetry by Natsume Sōseki and is currently working on a larger related project.



  • Natalia Lomaia

    Natalia Lomaia is a freelance writer and psychology student living in Berlin, Germany.



  • Ryan Long

    Ryan Long is an associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in the Fiction and Poetry of Roberto Bolaño (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State (Purdue, 2008). He is currently writing a book titled The Poetics of Place and Displacement: Hannes Meyer and Postrevolutionary Mexico. He also edits the Mexican prose fiction section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies.


  • Ryan F. Long

    Ryan F. Long is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on culture and politics in Mexico, especially the late twentieth century. He has published articles on a range of topics, including the conflict in Chiapas, Mexican cinema, and a number of writers, such as Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Álvaro Mutis, and Roberto Bolaño. His book, Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State, was published in 2008 by Purdue University Press.



  • Casandra López

    Casandra López is a Chicana and California Indian writer who has received fellowships from CantoMundo and Jackstraw. She’s been selected for residencies with SFAI, SAR, and Hedgbrook. She is the author of the chapbook Where Bullet Breaks (Sequoyah National Research Center, 2014), and her chapbook Brother Bullet was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2019. She is the co-founder of As Us: A Space for Writers of the World.



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    Jotacé López

    Jotacé López (b. Hatillo, Puerto Rico) is a writer and professor. He earned his doctorate at the University of Texas in Austin. His work has been published in journals in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Mexico, and the United States. Some of his short stories appear in the anthologies Convocadas: Nueva narrativa puertorriqueña (2009), Cuentos de oficio (2015), and A toda costa: Narrativa puertorriqueña reciente (2018). His two short-story collections are Bestiario de caricias (2008) and Arboretum (2016).



  • Luis Lorente

    Luis Lorente (b. 1948, Cárdenas) ranks among the foremost Cuban poets of his generation. He has received countless literary awards, the most prominent of which was the Casa de las Américas prize for Esta tarde llegando la noche (2004). He has earned as well two Premios de la Crítica: one for Esta tarde llegando la noche (2006)and another one for Más horrible que yo (2007).



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    Hannah Lowe

    Born to an English mother and a Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah Lowe is the author of Chick (2013), which won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Forward, Aldeburgh, and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection prizes. Her second collection, Chan (2016), is based on her research in migration and mixed-race studies, drawing on the life of Joe Harriott, the Jamaican alto saxophonist who made his name in 1950s London, and Jamaican migrants who traveled from Kingston to Liverpool in 1947 on the SS Ormonde. She has also published a family memoir, Long Time, No See (2015).



  • Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juárez

    Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juárez is author of the bilingual Tutunakú-Spanish poetry collection Xlaktsuman papa’ / Las hijas de Luno (2021). Originally from Tuxtla, Zapotitlán de Méndez, Puebla, Mexico, she studied language and culture at the Intercultural University of the State of Puebla. In 2022 she received a second fellowship from the prestigious National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), in the category of poetry in Indigenous languages. Her comic Laktsuman xla kuxi’ / Mujeres maíz, which won fourth place in a nationwide contest for comics in Indigenous languages, was just published by Mexico’s National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI). In addition to regularly offering writing workshops and courses in creative writing, Lucas Juárez has also organized various forums for the dissemination of works of Indigenous literatures.


  • Yevgeny Lukin

    Yevgeny Lukin is the winner of many literary prizes in Russia, including the prestigious Gumilyov Prize in poetry in 2008.



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    Aleksey Lukyanov

    Aleksey Lukyanov (b. 1976) lives in Solikamsk, a city near Perm, Russia. He has been publishing in Russia since 1998. Two of his stories have appeared in English: “High Pressure” (trans. Marian Schwartz) and “Entwives” (trans. Veronica Muskheli & José Alaniz).



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    Enriqueta Lunez

    Enriqueta Lunez’s bilingual anthologies Sk’eoj Jme’tik U / Cantos de Luna (Pluralia Ediciones, 2013) and Tajimol Ch’ulelaletik / Juego de Nahuales (SEP, 2008) were supported by the National System for Artistic Creation in Mexico (SNCA). She directs the Cultural Center of Chamula in Chiapas, Mexico. 



  • Khalid Lyamlahy

    Khalid Lyamlahy is a Postdoctoral Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago working on North African literature. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and an MA in Comparative literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. 


  • Mickey Lyons

    Mickey Lyons is a Detroit-based writer.



  • Alexandra Lytton Regalado

    Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a poet, editor, and translator with a black belt in Kenpo karate. Her poems, stories, and nonfiction have been published widely.



  • Linyao Ma

    Linyao Ma is a PhD student whose research interests include contemporary Arabic novels, especially Arabic science fiction. She is currently preparing her thesis on post–Arab Spring dystopian fiction under the supervision of Frédéric Lagrange at Sorbonne University. She is based in Paris.



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    Alain Mabanckou

    Alain Mabanckou, from Congo-Brazzaville, is considered one of francophone Africa’s most prolific contemporary writers. Twice a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, his work has garnered a multitude of awards, including the prestigious Grand Prix de la Littérature from the Académie Française. 



  • Nadra Mabrouk

    Nadra Mabrouk is the recipient of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the 2019 Amy Award from Poets & Writers magazine. She holds an MFA from the New York University Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. The author of the chapbook Measurement of Holy (Akashic, 2020), she works in publishing and teaches in New York City.



  • Jamie Mackay

    Jamie Mackay is a writer and translator based in Italy and the author of The Invention of Sicily (forthcoming from Verso Books).


  • Rosie MacLeod

    Rosie MacLeod is a London-based translator, interpreter and—increasingly—writer and radio host. She has written for Drunk Monkeys and the Journal of Austrian Studies. She is the host of What They Don’t Tell You About the EU on East London Radio.



  • Tamara J. Madison

    Tamara J. Madison is an MFA graduate of New England College with creative and critical work published in various anthologies, journals, and magazines including Poetry International, Tidal Basin Review, Web Del Sol Review of Books, and Tea Literary & Arts Magazine. She is a contributing editor to aaduna, an online journal of words and images, and an English and creative writing instructor at Valencia College. Her most recent poetry collection is Threed, This Road Not Damascus (Trio House Press). She is also the creator and host of BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems, a poetry conversation series on YouTube.



  • Elaine Vilar Madruga

    Elaine Vilar Madruga is a Cuban poet, fiction writer, and playwright whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies around the globe. She has authored more than thirty books, most recently Los años del silencio (2019). Translated by Toshiya Kamei, Elaine’s short stories and poems have appeared in venues such as Bitter Oleander, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Star*Line.



  • Kelsey Madsen

    Kelsey Madsen is a PhD candidate in French at the University of Oklahoma. She specializes in representations of history and memory in twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature.



  • Baret Magarian

    Baret Magarian is the author of Mirror and Silhouette, a novella set in Venice; the novel The Fabrications; and, most recently, the story collection Melting Point.



  • Alexandra Magearu

    Alexandra Magearu is a writer and literary scholar born in Romania and currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her writing has been published in Tint Journal, The Comparatist, and two philosophy book collections, Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari and Phenomenology of the Broken Body. She was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies for her literary scholarship.



  • Ariel Magnus

    Ariel Magnus (b. 1975, Buenos Aires) is a writer and literary translator. He has published numerous novels and story collections, edited anthologies of Argentine humor and misanthropy, and written for the radio. Several of his books have been translated into French and German; Chess with My Grandfather is the first to be translated into English.



  • Lucy Mahaffey

    Lucy Mahaffey (http://lucymahaffey.com), a former WLT intern, is a senior at the University of Oklahoma. She co-founded FORUM, a newsmagazine for the OU community on in-depth, monthly topics such as “Disrupting Racism at OU.” She is majoring in international studies and was a speaker at TEDxOU. 



  • Adnan Mahmutović

    Adnan Mahmutović came to Sweden from Bosnia as a war refugee in the 1990s. He lectures at Stockholm University in literature and creative writing and has published two novels, Thinner Than a Hair and At the Feet of Mothers; a short-story collection, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair; and several volumes of literary studies. 



  • Mai Mang

    Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) was born in Changde, Hunan, China. He established himself as a poet in the 1980s and received his BA, MA, and PhD in Chinese literature from Beijing University. He moved to the United States in 1993 and earned a second PhD in comparative literature from UCLA in 2001. He is the author of two books of poetry, Stone Turtle: Poems 1987–2000 (2005) and Approaching Blindness (2005). He is also the author of Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). In 2009 he served as a juror for the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and nominated Chinese poet Duo Duo, who became the first Chinese author to win the prestigious prize (see WLT, March 2011). In 2012 he won the 20th Rou Gang Poetry Prize in China. He is currently associate professor of Chinese at Connecticut College.