BIO Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (January 24, 1871 – March 5, 1951, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer and literary critic. He studied theology at the Theological faculty in Prague, but he did not complete. Thereafter, he left Czechia for one year and after his return he started working as a clerk in the post office. Soon after,…
BIO Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869), known by his pen name, Ghalib, is a famous romantic and mystical poet from the Mughal Empire era in India. His poems are characterized by great wit, puns, and a mystical, erotic imagery so passionate as to veer at times into the surreal. Diwan-e-Ghalib is a famous poetry book written by…
BIO Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. BIO Gregory Dowling is Associate Professor of American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic publications include a study of American narrative poetry, a guide to Byron’s…
BIO Born in Harnathpur village of Baksar, Bihar, India, Bimlesh Tripathi is a new age Hindi poet and storywriter. He received his education at the Presidency college, Calcutta, and enrolled in a research there. He is known for his poetry collections – “Ek Desh Aur Mare Hue Log”, “Ham Bache Rahenge” , “Kavita Se Lambi…
BIO David Mason is a professor of English at The Colorado College and Poet Laureate of Colorado. His books include Ludlow: A Verse Novel, The Country I Remember, Arrivals, News from the Village, The Scarlet Libretto and Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014. Co-editor of several textbooks and anthologies, he has also published two…
BIO Jennifer Reeser is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Former editor of The Paris Review, X. J. Kennedy, wrote that her debut collection, An Alabaster Flask, (winner of the Word Press First Book Prize), “ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.” Her third book, Sonnets from the Dark Lady and…
BIO Rhina P. Espaillat has published nine full-length books and three chapbooks, comprising poetry, essays and short stories, in both English and her native Spanish. Her original work, and her translations from and into both languages, appear in numerous journals, over seventy anthologies and dozens of websites. Espaillat has earned many national and international awards,…
BIO Fatemeh Shams born in 1983 in Mashhad, Iran, won the silver medal in the national Literature Olympiad in 2000. After graduating in sociology from Tehran University, Fatemeh pursued post-graduate studies in London and then in Oxford University where she taught Persian language and literature. She is currently teaching classical Persian literature at the Courtauld Gallery of Art in Somerset…
BIO Giovanni Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar, arguably the greatest Italian poet of the 20th century. BIO Gregory Dowling is Associate Professor of American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic publications include a study of American narrative poetry, a guide to Byron’s Venice and a co-edited anthology of American…
BIO Karel Hlaváček (1874 – 1898) was a Czech Symbolist and Decadent poet and artist. He published his poetic works and art criticisms in the journal Moderní revue (Modern review). He was also active as an artist, creating works that suggest his anxieties about sex, such as Exile. He was the founding member and the first president of the nationalist and athletic Sokol group in the Prague suburb of Libeň. He…
BIO Cuban novelist, poet and ethnographer Miguel Barnet is perhaps best known for this testimonial novel Biography of a Runaway Slave. The winner numerous national and international literary awards, including the Premio Nacional de Literatura and the Premio Juan Rulfo, Barnet is the author of a ten books of poetry and five novels, as well…
BIO Michelle Chung is a poet, critic, editor, and translator. She grew up in Seoul, Korea. She graduated Hanyang University, taught in high school, and immigrated to the U.S. She earned a Master’s degree in Christian Psychology at Emmanuel University in Los Angeles. She worked for Dong-A Daily USA and Christian Herald as a reporter….
