Authors

Find your favorite authors featured in WLT or browse the entire list.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

  • Víctor Vegas

    Víctor Vegas is a novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, in 1967. Both his narrative and dramaturgical works have obtained international recognition through publications, awards, and performances. His most recent titles are the novels La edad del rock and roll (2015) and Me llaman Big (2019), the collection of stories La naturaleza de las cosas (2018), and the short plays Una sensación vital (2016) and A Kind of Magic (2021)



  • Sathyaraj Venkatesan

    Sathyaraj Venkatesan is an associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. He is an international field bibliographer with the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA). His research interests include literature and medicine, graphic medicine, and critical medical humanities.



  • Iossif Ventura

    Iossif Ventura was born in Greece and lives in Athens. He writes and translates poetry and participates in poetry-related fora and conferences. His elegy TANAIΣ, in a bilingual edition, was published by Red Heifer Press in 2015. His poems have been translated into English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Serbian, and Arabic (see WLT, Jan. 2016, 22–25).


  • Lawrence Venuti

    Lawrence Venuti is, most recently, the author of Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice (Routledge) and the translator of Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems (Graywolf), which won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize. He guest-edited the September 2009 cover feature of WLT devoted to Catalan literature. Click here to read a review of Translation Changes Everything.



  • Photo by Aaron Windhorstdiv>

    José Vergara

    José Vergara is an assistant professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College. He specializes in prose of the long twentieth century, with an emphasis on experimental works. His first book, All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature, examines Russian writers’ reception of Joyce’s fiction. He has published on authors including Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Shishkin, and Sasha Sokolov, among others, in a variety of journals, and his writing and interviews can also be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, and Music & Literature.



  • Namrata Verghese

    Namrata Verghese is an undergraduate and Robert W. Woodruff Scholar at Emory University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nimrod International Journal, PRISM international, storySouth, and elsewhere. Her first collection of short stories, Hyphenated, is forthcoming from Speaking Tiger Books in 2019.



  • Luís Fernando Veríssimo

    Luís Fernando Veríssimo was born in 1936 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. The son of author and professor Érico Veríssimo, he grew up between Brazil and the US. He has published several novels, and his crônicas have appeared in major national publications. He was also the author of As Cobras, a comic strip that began in 1975, in the midst of the military dictatorship, and ran for twenty years.



  • Vickie Vértiz

    The child of immigrants, Vickie Vértiz has had work published in the New York Times magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut won the 2018 PEN America Prize in poetry. She teaches writing at UC–Santa Barbara.



  • Valentina Viene

    Valentina Viene is a literary translator from Arabic and Italian to English. A freelance journalist and editor, her work has appeared in a number of magazines and blogs in the form of book reviews, interviews with authors, and event reports.



  • Enrique Vila-Matas

    Enrique Vila-Matas (born March 31, 1948, in Barcelona) is a Spanish Catalan novelist who has had a long and outstanding literary career and is one of the most prestigious and original writers in contemporary Spanish fiction. He is the author of several award-winning books that mix different genres like metafiction and have been translated into thirty languages.


  • Idea Vilariño

    Idea Vilariño (18 August 1920–28 April 2009) was an Uruguayan poet, essayist, and literary critic and a well-known member of the literary and intellectual group known as the Generation of ’45, which included Juan Carlos Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and, as an ex-officio Argentine member, Jorge Luis Borges. She was a high school literature teacher from 1952 until the military dictatorship in 1973. After the restoration of democracy until her death, she was a professor of literature at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. She was the author of twelve books of poetry, among the best known of which are Nocturnos (1955) and Poemas de amor (1957). Her collected poems, Poesía completa, was published in Uruguay in 2009. She was also the author of five books of essays and literary criticism.



  • Photo by Keno Rodríguezdiv>

    Vanessa Vilches Norat

    Vanessa Vilches Norat is a short-story and essay writer. She has published the story collections Geografías de lo perdido (2018), Espacios de color cerrado (2012; winner of the Puerto Rico PEN Club Competition, 2013), and Crímenes domésticos (2007). She is also the author of a book of essays, De(s)madres o el rastro materno en las escrituras del Yo (2003), and two collections of newspaper columns. She is a professor of Spanish and literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.



  • Photo: Oscar Garciadiv>

    Nadia Villafuerte

    Nadia Villafuerte was born in Mexico in 1978. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Barcos en Houston (Ships in Houston) and ¿Te gusta el látex, cielo? (Do you like latex, Honey?), and the novel Por el lado salvaje (On the wild side).



  • Federico Villegas

    Federico Villegas resides in the Colombian Andes where, as a physician, he works to bridge the gaps of social inequality while dreaming of being a writer. He has published two articles in medical journals.



  • Juan Villoro

    Juan Villoro (b. 1956, Mexico City) has been recognized for his journalistic and literary work with such international prizes as the Premio Herralde de Novela, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Rey de España, and the Prix Antonin Artaud. A columnist for the newspaper Reforma, where this essay first appeared, he is the author of God Is Round (2016) and The Wild Book (2017), both published by Restless Books.


  • Marc Vincenz

    Marc Vincenz’s eighth collection of poetry is Becoming the Sound of Bees (Ampersand Books, 2015); a book-length poem, Sibylline, is forthcoming. He has translated many German-language poets, including Herman Hesse Prize winner Klaus Merz. He is executive editor of MadHat Press and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Plume and Fulcrum.



  • Jodie Noel Vinson

    Jodie Noel Vinson holds an MFA in nonfiction creative writing from Emerson College. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Agni, Lit Hub, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, Creative Nonfiction, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and Nowhere Magazine, among other places. She is currently working on a book about insomnia.


  • Kirsten Viohl

    Kirsten Viohl is a WLT intern.



  • András Visky

    András Visky is a Hungarian-Romanian poet, essayist, and playwright whose plays have been staged in several countries. He has a doctor of liberal arts from the University of Theatre and Film, Budapest, and is a co-founder and the former executive director of Koinónia Publishing. Photo by Kiss Gábor.



  • Photo by Johnathon Williamsdiv>

    Padma Viswanathan

    Padma Viswanathan is the author of two novels, The Toss of a Lemon and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, published in eight countries and shortlisted for major prizes, and short stories published in such journals as Granta Online and the Boston Review. She has also written plays, personal essays, cultural journalism, and reviews. Her translation of the Graciliano Ramos novel São Bernardo is forthcoming from New York Review Books in their Classics series.



  • Marianna Vitale

    Marianna Vitale (b. 1993) was born and raised in Rimini, a popular beach resort on Italy’s Adriatic coast. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Scuola Holden and currently works as a copywriter. Her recent fiction has appeared in Rivista Blam and Tropismi.



  • Gerald Vizenor

    Gerald Vizenor is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a citizen of the White Earth Nation and has published more than forty books. Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity (2019), a collection of essays, is his most recent publication. Vizenor has received many awards, including the Mark Twain Award.



  • Emily Vizzo

    Journalist and poet Emily Vizzo is the author of the verse collection Giantess (YesYes Books, 2018). She actively volunteers with Writers Resist Los Angeles.



  • Oleg Vladimirsky

    Oleg Vladimirsky lives in Odesa, where he works as a photojournalist at Odesa Evening News.



  • Tiffanie Vo

    Tiffanie Vo is a WLT intern studying human relations and sociology at the University of Oklahoma. She is passionate about sharing her Vietnamese culture and advocating for Asian American rights. When she’s not studying, she is performing spoken word at local open mics and taking kickboxing classes four times a week.



  • Photo by Dmitry Rozhkovdiv>

    Vladimir Voinovich

    Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, also spelled Voynovich (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Войно́вич) (born 26 September 1932), is a Russian (formerly Soviet) writer and a dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature.



  • Rob Vollmar

    Rob Vollmar is WLT’s book review and online editor.



  • Tatiana Voltskaya

    Tatiana Voltskaya is the author of fifteen published poetry collections, including Cicada (2006) and Trostdroppar (2009). A PEN Club member, she is also the winner of multiple national and international poetry prizes. Since 2000 Voltskaya has worked as an editor and correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, one of the few sources of credible news in the Russian Federation. Surveilled by the Russian secret service agency, the FSB, and officially branded a “foreign agent” in Russia, Voltskaya felt forced to flee her home country and does not know how long her exile might last.



  • Ute von Funcke

    Ute von Funcke, who wrote plays for children before turning to poetry in 2004, has published four collections of poems, most recently in den rissen der zeit (“in the fissures of time”; scaneg Verlag, 2018). A selection of her poetry, translated by Stuart Friebert, Between Question & Answer, appeared in 2018 from Pinyon Press. A companion volume, Shadow of Shadows, will soon follow from Black Mountain Press.



  • William Voskergian

    William Voskergian was born in Jerusalem in 1949. His father, a survivor of the Armenian massacres during the Ottoman Empire, was smuggled into Palestine by William’s grandfather, through the Syrian desert, when he was twelve years old in 1915. His mother is a Palestinian refugee from Nazareth. He is the author of six books of short stories and novels. He has been a teacher of oriental music and a schoolteacher for over forty years.