Colombia | 2011, 2013 Héctor Abad was born in Medellín in 1958. Expelled from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana for an article written about the pope, he moved to Italy, to Turin, where he [...]
Mexico | 2010 Chloe Aridjis grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico City. She studied for a BA at Harvard and gained her PhD in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic from Oxford. Her debut [...]
USA | 2010 Nathaniel Rich was born in 1980 in New York City. His first novel, The Mayor’s Tongue, was published in 2008. Previously he published a work of nonfiction, San Francisco Noir: The City [...]
Jordan/Lebanon | 2010 Rabih Alameddine was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese parents, and grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon. He was educated in England and America, and has an engineering degree from [...]
Ethiopia | 2010 Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. A 2010-11 Fulbright Scholar and recent Pushcart Prize [...]
USA | 2010, 2011 Wells Tower is the author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, a collection of short fiction. He is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the [...]
UK | 2010, 2012 Diane Evans lives in London and is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA. She has published short fiction in a number of anthologies, has worked as a [...]
Canada | 2010 Jaspreet Singh is the author of two award-winning books set in Kashmir. Chef, a novel (Bloomsbury, 2010), and Seventeen Tomatoes, a collection of short stories. He lives in the [...]
Canada | 2010, 2011 Anne McLean translates Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs and other writings by authors including Julio Cortázar, Héctor Abad, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, [...]
Mexico | 2009 Brenda Lozano was born in Mexico in 1981. A narrator and essayist, she contributes to Letras Libres and Día Siete, among other publications. She studied Latin American Literature at [...]
