BIO E. SAN JUAN is Professorial Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Polytechnic University of the Philippines,, and emeritus professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Ethnic Studies,Washington State University & the University of Connecticut. He was recently fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University; and of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas. He was…
BIO – Anna Akhmatova (1889-1961) Akhmatova’s early Acmeist poems were sensationally popular during the teens and 20s of the twentieth century. After the Bolshevik revolution her personal life and public career went from crisis to crisis. She was effectively barred from publishing. She continued to write “for the bottom of her chest” as she said….
BIO Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968. She has a Ph.D. in Philology from the University of Barcelona, where she is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature. She has published six collections of poetry. The prose poems are from Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona, 2006), which won the Premi Miquel de Palol…
BIO Ivonne Gordon was born in Quito, Ecuador. She is a poet, literary critic, and literary translator. She has a Ph.D from the University of Callifornia, Irvine in Latin American Literature. She is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Redlands. She has published five books and has two more completed. The…
BIO A long-time Russian print and online (Print Organ, Metro, RUNYweb.com), radio (WMNB) and television (RTN) journalist, observer of both popular and high culture, documentarian of the Russian émigré community in America, with his book-length project of ekphrastic poems Slovosphera, Gennady Katsov returned to his roots in poetry after a long absence. Born in 1956…
BIO Mohamed Elramady is an Egyptian poet who lives in Alexandria. He has published five collections of poems: أتَوضأُ بِنُورِ عَينيكِ [I Wash in the Light of Your Eyes], 2011; العشق بعد المداولة [Love after Deliberation], 2010; رَمَادِيَّاتٌ وأَلْوَانٌ أُخْرَىٰ عَام [Ramadyat and Other Colors], 2009; حِينَ يَتَكَلَّمُ النَّبْضُ [When the Pulse Speaks], 2009; and…
BIO Maritza Luza Castillo is a Peruvian writer and journalist with experience in radio, television, and the printed medium. She lives in Lima and is a member of the Peruvian Society of Poets and the Society of Poets World-Wide. Her poems and short stories have been widely published and garnered prizes. Two recent anthologies with…
BIO Sarla Maheshwari is an Indian writer, poet, journalist and social activist . She has written 16 books on various subject matters, including drama and poetry. She is an ex-member of Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha), and the Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee. She lives in Kolkata, India with her husband Arun Maheshwari,…
BIO Claudia Russo was born in Enna, Italy, in 1987. In 2014 she obtained a degree in modern languages and literature from the university of Catania and now continues her studies of French language at the university of Rome, La Sapienza. While in Catania, she was active in a literary group under the direction of…
BIO Adriana Scanferla was born in Venice in 1949 and has been living in the province of Varese, where she collaborates with civic institutions in denouncing human rights violations against women and children world-wide. She feels that the Web might contribute to the diffusion of culture and democracy among peoples. Her poems have been published…
BIO . Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an Indo-American poet, writer, filmmaker and actor based in California, USA. Author of “Bare Soul” and three collections of poems in Hindi, she won the prestigious “Bihar Rajbhasha Award” (1986-87) given by the government of Bihar, India, for her first poetry collection “Chand Ka Paivand” (Patch of Moon) before she…
BIO Constantin Severin (constantinseverin.ro) is a Romanian writer and a visual artist. He is the founder and promoter of the award-winning concept known as archetypal expressionism. He is the author of eight books of poetry, essays, and novels. His poems have been published by major Romanian and international literary magazines. He is one of the…
