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  Liam is a skilled clinician who utilizes an integrated approach, providing clinical fertility care while nurturing the emotional and relational aspects of the transition to parenthood. The foremost expert in midwife-led IUI, Liam is working tirelessly to provide training for midwives who truly want to serve LGBTQ+ families well, expandin

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  Herta Müller

  Herta Müller was born in Niţchidorf, Timiş County, Romania, the daughter of Swabian farmers. Her family was part of Romania's German minority and her mother was deported to a labour camp in the Soviet Union after World War II.
  
  She read German studies and Romanian literature at Timişoara University. In 1976, Müller began working as a translator for an engineering company, but in 1979 was dismissed for her refusal to cooperate with the Securitate, the Communist regime's secret police. Initially, she made a living by teaching kindergarten and giving private German lessons.
  
  Her first book was published in Romania (in German) in 1982, and appeared only in a censored version, as with most publications of the time.
  
  In 1987, Müller left for Germany

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  Suzanne Rodriguez

  Suzanne Rodriguez is a journalist and the author of three non-fiction books and hundreds of national magazine and newspaper articles. Suzanne’s writing covers numerous topics, including travel, food, wine, history, art, people, business, and technology. She lives in the town of Sonoma, California. When not at her desk, Suzanne can be found on steep hiking trails, traveling, enjoying great meals in wonderful dives or Michelin-starred restaurants, and pursuing research. She is currently completing a novel about a fascinating but little-known aspect of early California history.

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  Shulamith Firestone

  Shulamith Firestone (also called Shulie) was a Jewish, Canadian-born feminist. She was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism, having been a founding member of the New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists. In 1970, she authored The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, an important and widely influential feminist text.

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  Juliet Jacques

  Juliet Jacques (born Redhill, Surrey in 1981) is a British journalist, critic and writer of short fiction, known for her work on the transgender experience, including her transition as a trans woman.
  
  She grew up in Horley, and attended Reigate Grammar School for two years before her parents moved her to a local comprehensive school, followed by the College of Richard Collyer in Horsham, West Sussex, studying History at the University of Manchester and then Literature and Film at the University of Sussex.
  
  In 2007, she published a book on English avant-garde author Rayner Heppenstall for Dalkey Archive Press, and her memoir, entitled Trans, appeared on Verso Books in 2015. She has written regular columns for The Guardian, on gender identity, an

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  Sarah Graham

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  Albert Memmi

  Tunisian Jewish writer and essayist who migrated to France.
  
  Born in Tunisia under French protectorate, from a Tunisian Jewish mother, Marguerite Sarfati, and a Tunisian-Italian Jewish father, François Memmi, he speaks French and Tunisian-Judeo-Arabic. He claims to be of Berber ancestry. He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West.
  
  His best-known nonfiction work is "The Colonizer and the Colonized", about the interdependent relationship of the two groups.

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  Heather Lewis

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  Heather Lewis was born in Bedford, New York and attended Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of three published novels. The first, House Rules (1994), details the experiences of a fifteen year old girl working as a show rider of horses-an experience the author herself had in her teenage years. Lewis's second novel, The Second Suspect (1998), follows the struggles of a female police investigator trying to prove the guilt of a powerful and influential businessman responsible for the rape and murder of several young women. The third, posthumously published novel, Notice (2004), describes the experiences of a young prostitute, Nina and her involvement wit

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  Walt Odets

  
  Walt Odets is a clinical psychologist in private practice who has worked with and written about the psychological, developmental and social lives of gay men for more than three decades.
  
  His seminal book, In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS, which Duke University Press published in 1995, was selected by The New York Times as one of the “Notable Books of the Year.” The Advocate magazine reported that In the Shadow of the Epidemic was also the No. 1 bestselling book among gay men that fall. The following year, OUT magazine named Odets "one of The 100 most impressive, influential and controversial gay men and lesbians of 1996.”
  
  Odets’s recent work has focused on the psychological aftermath of the HIV epidemic, th

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  Jackie Wang

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  Hal Foster

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  Note: for the comic book artist, see Harold "Hal" Foster.

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  Eileen Myles

  Eileen Myles is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.

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  Virginie Despentes

  Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitation films genre known as rape and revenge films. Her most recent biographical, non-fiction work, King Kong Theory has also been translated into English, and recounts her experiences working within the French sex industry, and attendant infamy and praise associated with the aforementioned Baise-Moi.

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  Lynne Tillman

  
  Here’s an Author’s Bio. It could be written differently. I’ve written many for myself and read lots of other people’s. None is right or sufficient, each slants one way or the other. So, a kind of fiction – selection of events and facts.. So let me just say: I wanted to be a writer since I was eight years old. That I actually do write stories and novels and essays, and that they get published, still astonishes me.
  
  My news is that my 6th novel MEN AND APPARITIONS will appear in march 2018 from Soft Skull Press. It's my first novel in 12 years.
  
  Each spring, I teach writing at University at Albany, in the English Dept., and in the fall, at The New School, in the Writing Dept.
  
  I’ve lived with David Hofstra, a bass player, for many years. It makes

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  Bruce Benderson

  Bruce Benderson is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and translator.

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  Nell Zink

  Nell Zink was raised in rural Virginia, a setting she draws on in her second novel, Mislaid. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary. In 1993, while living in West Philadelphia, Zink founded a zine called Animal Review, which ran until 1997.
  
  Zink has worked as a secretary at Colgate-Palmolive and as a technical writer in Tel Aviv. She moved to Germany in May 2000, completing a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Tübingen. Zink has been married twice, to US citizen Benjamin Alexander Burck and to Israeli composer and poet Zohar Eitan.
  
  After 15 years writing fiction exclusively for a single pen pal, the Israeli postmodernist Avner Shats, Zink caught the attention of Jonathan Franzen. The two writers began a c

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  Eimear McBride

  Eimear McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976 to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when she was three. She spent her childhood in Sligo and Mayo. Then, at the age of 17, she moved to London.

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  Jack Skelley

  Jack Skelley is author of the novels The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (Semiotext(e), 2023), and Myth Lab: Theories of Plastic Love (Far West Press, 2024). Jack’s other books include Monsters (Little Caesar Press, 1982), Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press, 2021), and Interstellar Theme Park: New and Selected Writing (BlazeVOX, 2022). He contributes fiction and non-fiction to many international publications. Jack’s psychedelic surf band Lawndale released two albums on SST Records, and has a new album, Twango.

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  Hervé Guibert

  (Saint-Cloud, 14 décembre 1955 - Clamart, 27 décembre 1991) est un écrivain et journaliste français. Son rapport à l'écriture se nourrit pour l'essentiel d'autobiographie et d'autofiction1. Il est également reconnu comme photographe et pour ses écrits sur la photographie.
  
  Hervé Guibert est issu d’une famille de la classe moyenne d’après guerre. Son père est inspecteur vétérinaire et sa mère ne travaille pas. Il a une sœur, Dominique, plus âgée que lui. Ses grand-tantes, Suzanne et Louise, tiennent une place importante dans son univers familial. Après une enfance parisienne (XIVe arrondissement), il poursuit des études secondaires à La Rochelle. Il fait alors partie d’une troupe de théâtre : la Comédie de La Rochelle et du Centre Ouest. Il re

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  Chad Harbach

  Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin and was educated at Harvard and the University of Virginia. He is a cofounder and coeditor of n+1.
  
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  Amelia Abraham

  Amelia Abraham is a journalist and author from London.

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  Michelle Tea

  Michelle Tea (born Michelle Tomasik) is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, prostitution, and other topics. She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco. Her books, mostly memoirs, are known for their views into the queercore community. In 2012 Tea partnered with City Lights Publishers to form the Sister Spit imprint.

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  Annie Ernaux

  The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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  Maggie Nelson

  Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (Free Press, 2007; reissued by Graywolf, 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007). Her poetry titles include Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist for the PEN/ M

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  Lynne Tillman

  
  Here’s an Author’s Bio. It could be written differently. I’ve written many for myself and read lots of other people’s. None is right or sufficient, each slants one way or the other. So, a kind of fiction – selection of events and facts.. So let me just say: I wanted to be a writer since I was eight years old. That I actually do write stories and novels and essays, and that they get published, still astonishes me.
  
  My news is that my 6th novel MEN AND APPARITIONS will appear in march 2018 from Soft Skull Press. It's my first novel in 12 years.
  
  Each spring, I teach writing at University at Albany, in the English Dept., and in the fall, at The New School, in the Writing Dept.
  
  I’ve lived with David Hofstra, a bass player, for many years. It makes

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  Malin Lindroth

  Malin Lindroth writes poetry, short stories, and plays. She lives on the west coast of Sweden.

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  Sara Stridsberg

  Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
  
  In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

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  Lena Andersson

  Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard . In the same year, the same book, won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

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  Édouard Levé

  Levé was self-taught as an artist and studied business at the elite École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales. He began painting in 1991. Levé made abstract paintings but abandoned the field (claiming to have burned most of his paintings) and took up color photography upon his return from an influential two-month trip to India in 1995.
  
  Levé's first book, Oeuvres (2002), is an imaginary list of more than 500 books by the author, not actually written, although some of the items were taken up as the premisses of later books actually written and published by Levé (for example the photography books Amérique and Pornographie).
  
  Levé traveled in the United States in 2002, writing Autoportrait and taking the photographs for the series

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  Catherine Lacey

  Catherine Lacey is the author of five books: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Pew, and Biography of X, as well as a story collection, Certain American States.
  
  Her honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction and the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. She lives in México.

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  Lina Wolff

  Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the prestigious Vi magazine literature prize, given to writers to watch out for, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives with her family in Sweden.

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  Kjersti Anfinnsen

  Kjersti Anfinnsen, født i 1975, bor i Oslo. Hun har gått på Forfatterstudiet i Tromsø og på Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland. I 2012 debuterte hun med romanen Det var grønt. Romanen De siste kjærtegn utkom i 2019. Anfinnsen mottok Subjektprisen, Havmannprisen og Bokhandelens forfatterstipend for boka. I 2021 utkom romanen Øyeblikk for evigheten.
  
  Source: Kolon Forlag
  Photo: Marius Fiskum

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  Carmen Maria Machado

  Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the Crawford Award. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."
  
  Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The

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  Édouard Louis

  Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
  
  From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
  
  The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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  Elin Persson

  Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.

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  Neige Sinno

  Neige Sinno is a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, Le Camion and La Vie des rats. Born in France, she has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years. Her 2023 book, Triste tigre, won several of France’s top literary prizes and became the publishing sensation of the year.

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  Simon Wu

  Simon Wu is a curator and writer involved in collaborative art production and research. He has organized exhibitions and programs at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, MoMA, and David Zwirner, among other venues. In 2021 he was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and was featured in Cultured magazine's Young Curators series. He is a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, was a 2018 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and is currently in the PhD program in History of Art at Yale University. He has two brothers, Nick and Duke, and loves the ocean.

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  Erica Johnson Debeljak

  Erica Johnson Debeljak (born 1961, San Francisco, U.S.) is an American-Slovenian writer and translator, an American expatriate living in Slovenia.
  
  From 1987 to 1993, she worked as an financial analyst at the French government-owned Banque Nationale de Paris and as lender to the major Wall Street firms.
  
  After moving to Slovenia, she has worked as a translator and columnist for local newspaper Delo. Her essays and stories have also appeared in US News and World Report, Glimmer Train, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Epoch, Common Knowledge, and Eurozine. Barren Harvest: The Selected Poems of Dane Zajc, she translated in 2004, was published by White Pine Press.
  
  She has published a number of books both in Slovenian and English, inclu

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  Merethe Lindstrøm

  Merethe Lindstrøm er født i 1963 i Bergen og er oppvokst i Hammerfest, Stord og Høland. Nå bor hun i Oslo.
  Forfatteren debuterte med novellesamlingen "Sexorcisten og andre fortellinger" i 1983, og siden har hun skrevet flere novellesamlinger, romaner og en barnebok.
  Karakteristisk for forfatterskapet er hennes fokus på moderne menneskers søken etter andre og etter mening. Hun har fått mye oppmerksomhet for novellesamlingen "Svømme under vann" (1994) og romanene "Steinsamlere" (1996) og "Stedfortrederen" (1997). For novellesamlingen "Gjestene" (2007) var hun innstilt til Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2008 og nominert til Kritikerprisen for beste voksenbok 2007. Hun er tildelt Dobloug-prisen 2008 og Amalie Skram-prisen 2012 for sitt samlede forfa

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  Maja Lee Langvad

  Maja Lee Langvad er født i 1980. Hun blev uddannet fra Forfatterskolen i 2003 og debuterede i 2006 med den konceptuelle tekstsamling Find Holger Danske. Hun er medredaktør på det nordiske litteraturtidsskrift Kritiker. Hun har oversat Spørgeskemaer af Max Frisch. I en årrække optrådte hun som en kritisk stemme i adoptionsdebatten i Danmark.
  
  Maja Lee Langvad har modtaget flere legater og priser bl.a. Statens Kunstfonds treårige arbejdslegat, Svend Dahlsgaards Mindelegat, Bodil og Jørgen Munch-Christensens Kulturlegat og Danske skønlitterære Forfatteres Hæderspris.
  
  Maja Lee Langvad har arbejdet sammen med en lang række kunstnere inden for videokunst, performance, teater, koreografi, film, musik og lydkunst.

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  Kathy Acker

  Born of German-Jewish stock, Kathy Acker was brought up by her mother and stepfather (her natural father left her mother before Kathy was born) in a prosperous district of NY. At 18, she left home and worked as a stripper. Her involvement in the sex industry helped to make her a hit on the NY art scene, and she was photographed by the newly fashionable Robert Mapplethorpe. Preferring to be known simply as 'Acker' (the name she took from her first husband Robert, and which she continued to use even after a short-lived second marriage to composer Peter Gordon), she moved to London in the mid-eighties and stayed in Britain for five years.
  
  Acker's writing is as difficult to classify into any particular genre as she herself was. She writes fluidl

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  Joelle Taylor

  Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author, and editor.

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  Michal Tallo

  Michal Tallo (1993) je spisovateľ, prekladateľ a publicista. Vydal básnické zbierky Antimita (2016, Drewo a srd), Δ (2018, Drewo a srd) a Kniha tmy (2022, Literárna bašta). V roku 2024 mu vyšla prozaická kniha Všetko je v poriadku, všade je láska (Literárna bašta), za ktorú získal Cenu Nadácie Tatra banky za umenie. Organizačne spolupracuje s niekoľkými filmovými a literárnymi festivalmi, pôsobí ako koordinátor súťaže Básne SK/CZ, vo vydavateľstve BRAK spoluvedie a rediguje básnickú edíciu Lentikular. Jeho tvorba bola preložená do mnohých jazykov a publikovaná v niekoľkých zahraničných antológiách; ukrajinský preklad zbierky Antimita vyšiel v roku 2018 vo vydavateľstve Krok. V roku 2020 bol nominovaný na medzinárodnú Cenu Václava Buriana. P

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  Éric Vuillard

  Born in Lyons in 1968, Éric Vuillard is a French author and film director. His books include Conquistadors (winner of the Ignatius J. Reilly prize 2010), and La Bataille de l'occident and Congo, for both of which he was awarded the 2012 Franz-Hessel prize and the 2013 Valery-Larbaud prize. Sorrow of the Earth is the first of his titles to be translated into English.

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  Gary Indiana

  Gary Hoisington, known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, and Depraved Indifference, chronicling the less permanent state of "depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium's end. In the introduction to the recently re-published edition of Three Month Fever, critic Christopher Glazek has coined the phrase 'deflationary realism' to describe Indiana's writing, in contrast to the magical realism or hysterical realism of other contemporary writing.

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  Colombe Schneck

  Colombe Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Académie française, Madame Figaro, and the Société des gens de lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut français, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives.

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  Harry Josephine Giles

  Harry Josephine Giles is a poet from Orkney. Their PhD on the possibilities of science fiction poetry for minority language literature became the verse-novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (2021). Tonguit (2015) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and their second book, The Games (2018), for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.

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  Andrej Nikolaidis

  Andrej Nikolaidis was born in 1974 in Sarajevo, to a mixed Montenegrin-Greek family. Until the age of six, he lived in the city of Ulcinj, where he returned in 1992 after the war in Bosnia erupted. Since 1994, he has written for regional independent and liberal media, as well as for cultural magazines. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential intellectuals of the younger generation in the region, known for his anti-war activism and for his promotion of the rights of minorities.
  
  Nikolaidis also publicly defended the victims of police torture, which resulted in his receiving many threats, including a death threat during a live radio appearance. He has often stated that he considers freedom of speech to be the basis of freedom

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  Clancy Martin

  Clancy Martin (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2003) is Professor of Philosophy at University of Missouri-Kansas City. He works on nineteenth century philosophy, existentialism, moral psychology, applied ethics, and Buddhism.
  
  Clancy’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine (where he is a contributing editor), The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Review of Books, GQ, Esquire, Ethics, The Times Literary Supplement, Vice (where he is a contributing editor), The London Times, Australian Financial Times, The Dublin Times, Details, New York, Elle, The Harvard Advocate, The Columbia Journalism Review, Bookforum, and many other publications. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, inclu

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  Amy Lee Lillard

  Amy Lee Lillard is the author of three books: Exile in Guyville, winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize; A Grotesque Animal, a memoir from University of Iowa Press; and Dig Me Out, from Atelier26 Books.
  
  She is the co-founder and editor for Midwest Weird audio literary magazine, and the co-host of Fuzzy Memories podcast.

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  Heike Geissler

  Heike Geißler studied American culture, Geography and Politics in Dresden, Germany from 1996-1998.
  
  From 1998-2001 she studied German, Literature and Hispanic languages in Halle, Germany.
  
  From 2003-2007 she studied German literature and Philosophy.

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  Kay Dick

  Dick was born Kathleen Elsie Dick at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, England, UK, but was but raised in Switzerland by her mother, Kate Frances Dick, being educated in Geneva, as well as at the Lycée Français in London. In early life, Kay Dick worked at Foyle's bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road and, at 26, became the first woman director in English publishing at P.S. King & Son. She later became a journalist, working at the New Statesman. For many years, she edited the literary magazine The Windmill, under the nom de plume Edward Lane.
  
  Dick wrote five novels between 1949 and 1962, including the famous An Affair of Love (1953) and Solitaire (1958). She also wrote literary biography, researching the lives of Colette and Carlyle. In 1

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  Andrés N. Ordorica

  Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. His writing seeks to illuminate love and loss while unpacking what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá. He is the author of the poetry collection At Least This I Know and Holy Boys and the novel How We Named the Stars. He has been shortlisted for the Kavya Prize, Morley Lit Prize, Mo Siewcharran Prize and Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists. The following year he was named by The Skinny as one of 12 of Scotland’s Next Generation of Writers.

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  Jean-Bernard Pouy

  Jean-Bernard Pouy, né le 2 janvier 1946 à Paris, est un écrivain libertaire français de roman noir et un directeur de collections littéraires.

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  Tina Åmodt

  Tina Åmodt er født i 1985 på Askøy og bosatt i Oslo. Hun debuterte som forfatter i 2010 med Anleggsprosa, som ble mottatt med stor begeistring. Åmodts første roman, Det blir aldri lyst her, kom i 2014, og året etter mottok hun Stig Sæterbakkens minnepris. Hun gjendiktet Athena Farrokhzads Hvitverk til norsk i 2016, og i 2018 utkom Doris. En sjøroman. Tina Åmodt ble tildelt Bokhandelens forfatterstipend i 2019. Den andre moren er Åmodts fjerde bok.

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  Pierre Boulez

  Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world.

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  Ann Cvetkovich

  Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Depression: A Public Feeling, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, and Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; a coeditor of Political Emotions; and a former editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

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  Guillaume Poix

  Guillaume Poix est né en 1986 dans la banlieue lyonnaise. Il est dramaturge et metteur en scène. Les fils conducteurs est son premier roman.

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  Evan Tepest

  Evan Hugo Tepest lebt als Autor in Berlin. Im August 2025 erscheint sein Essay Sind Penisse real? im Piper Verlag. 2024 erschien sein erster Roman Schreib den Namen deiner Mutter und 2023 sein Essayband Power Bottom. Seine Texte sind außerdem in Anthologien und Zeitschriften erschienen, zuletzt in ER: Erotic Review (London) und DANKE - Das Fan-Fiction-Magazin (Basel/Berlin).

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  Davorin Lenko

  Davorin Lenko is a Slovene writer, poet and playwright. He studied comparative literature at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana where he graduated in 2012. He is the author of five books of prose. In 2014, he received the Kresnik Award for the best novel of the year for Telesa v temi (Bodies in the Dark) as well as the Critic’s Choice Award. The novel was also translated into German by the Slovene Writers’ Association. His 2016 collection of short stories Postopoma zapuščati Misantropolis (Gradually Leaving Misantropolis) was nominated for the Novo Mesto Short award. In 2017 he published the novel Bela pritlikavka (White Dwarf) and in 2019, the monodrama Psiho (Psycho), for which Lenko wrote the script, was staged in Ljubljana. In 2020 he publish

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  Miloš Kosec

  Miloš Kosec is an architect, editor and publicist living and working in London, UK and in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated from Faculty of Architecture of Ljubljana University in 2013 with the Master's thesis »Ruin as an Architectural Object«, for which he received Plečnik and Prešeren award. The thesis was published as a book in 2013. He has started his PhD research project on passivity of contemporary architects at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2016. He is also researching, writing and publishing articles in national and international architectural magazines, focusing primarily on architecture, architectural history, political and social aspects of architectural design.
  
  Miloš is also a practicing architect and landscape design

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  iO Tillett Wright

  iO Tillett Wright (born September 2, 1985) is an American artist, director, photographer, writer, film maker, activist, and actor. Wright grew up in New York, and was a professional film and television actor for 18 years.
  
  Source: Wikipedia.

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  Marilyn Hacker

  Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, critic, and professor of English.
  
  Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.

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  Francesca Wade

  Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, the New Statesman, and Prospect. She is editor of The White Review and a winner of the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize. She lives in London.

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  Fred Turner

  Fred Turner is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, having formerly served as department chair.
  Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford.
  Before joining academia, Turner worked as a journalist for over ten years writi

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  Pat Parker

  Pat Parker was an American poet and activist. Both her poetry and her activism drew from her experiences as an African-American lesbian feminist. Her poetry spoke about her tough childhood growing up in poverty, dealing with sexual assault, and the murder of a sister.

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  Paul Lendvai

  Paul Lendvai is a Hungarian-born Austrian journalist who worked as a correspondent for the Financial Times for more than two decades. He is the author of Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism; Inside Austria: New Challenges, Old Demons; and Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe.

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  Jana Micenková

  Jana Micenková (1980) vyštudovala odbor Slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU v Prešove a odbor Scenáristika a dramaturgia na FAMU v Prahe. V roku 2013 založila v Prahe nezávislý divadelný súbor Nekroteatro (www.nekroteatro.cz), kde dodnes pôsobí ako dramatička a režisérka. Za svoju divadelnú hru Nekrogames získala Cenu slovenského literárneho fondu za najlepší dramatický text 2013 a cenu pre mladých dramatikov VEJK AP 2012. Za poviedku s názvom Nekrogames získala prémiu v súťaži Poviedka 2012. Za text novely Najkrajšie roky získala cenu poroty v literárnej súťaži DEBUT 2012. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Sladký život (2018), ktorá sa dostala do finálovej desiatky ceny Anasoft litera.

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  Svetlana Makarovič

  Svetlana Makarovič se je rodila v Mariboru. Poleg njene mame (Otilija) in očeta (Abdon) v družini živita še brata Gorazd in Jan. V Ljubljani je končala srednjo vzgojiteljsko šolo in leta 1968 diplomirala na AGRFT. Nekaj časa je bila gledališka igralka, najprej v Mestnem gledališču, nato pa v Drami. Na začetku šestdesetih let 20. stoletja je začela s študijem različnih humanističnih ved (psihologija, pedagogika,etnologija in tuji jeziki), igrala klavir v kavarnah ter nekaj časa delala kot tajnica in vzgojiteljica otrok s posebnimi potrebami. Leta 1970 se je odločila za pot svobodne književnice. Uradno se je upokojila leta 1997. Poleg poezije in proze se je uveljavila tudi v radijskih in lutkovnih igrah za otroke ter dramah za odrasle. Ima en

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  Bonnie Greer

  Bonnie Greer is an American-British playwright, novelist and critic. She is also the Chancellor of Kingston University, a university located in Kingston upon Thames, London.

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  Karina Papp

  Karina Papp ist eine 1988 im heutigen Lettland geborene Autorin und Übersetzerin. Sie studierte Journalismus und Literatur in Russland. Seit 2013 lebt sie in Berlin. Auf ihrer Suche nach interlingualen und politisch bewussten literarischen Formen verbindet Karina Schreiben mit Übersetzung. Sie ist Empfängerin mehrerer DÜF-Radial-Stipendien für Übersetzer*innen. Ihre Texte wurden in den Literaturzeitschriften Neznanie, m ZIN und Soft Eis Magazine veröffentlicht.

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