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Farah Chamma (she/her) is a Palestinian poet and performer. As a performer, Chamma has participated in many events and festivals, including Palestine en Campagne (France), Wilde Möhre (Germany), Bradford Literature...

Coming from a background in literature and classical Indian dance, transdisciplinary artist Ashwini Bhat (she/her) uses sculptures, installations, video, and text to develop a unique visual language that explores...

David Tait is a poet and teacher who lives in Guangzhou, China. His books and pamphlets, all published by Smith|Doorstop Books, include By Degrees (2021); The AQI (2018), shortlisted for the 2019 Ledbury Forte...

Shlagha Borah (she/her) was born in Assam, India. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is an editorial assistant at The Offing. Her work has been published in The Cincinnati...

Chandanie Somwaru (she/her) is an Indo-Caribbean woman born and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of Urgent \\ Where the Mind Goes \\ Scattered (Ghostbird Press, 2021). Her writing has been published...

Forugh Farrokhzad was an Iranian poet, a screenwriter, a painter, and a filmmaker. She was born in Mazandaran, north of Tehran, to a large family, and is one of Iran’s preeminent mid-20th-century writers. ...

Sri Chinmoy was a spiritual poet, musician, artist, and self-described “student of peace.” He arose from the great tradition of Bengali poets, and wrote prolifically in both English and Bengali. A central ...

Samyak Shertok (he/him) is the author of No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), selected for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His poems have been published in The Cincinnati Review...

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled, bakla poet and playwright. Colgate is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling...

Joyce Mansour was an Egyptian-French author and part of the inner circle of postwar surrealists. She wrote 16 books of poetry as well as prose works and plays. Mansour was born in Bowden, England, to Jewish...

Rafiq Kathwari, a recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, earned an MA in political science from the New School and an MFA from Columbia University. His most recent collection of poems, My Mother's...

Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was a Hindu monk, philosopher, thinker, and poet who introduced Hinduism to the United States. He was a follower of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Vivekananda...

Sarah Audsley, a Korean American adoptee, is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023), a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective...

Abhijit Sarmah (he/him) is a poet from the northeastern Indian state of Assam and a researcher of global Indigenous writing. Sarmah earned a master of philosophy degree from Dibrugarh University, India, and...

Shara Lessley was born and raised in central California. She is the author of The Explosive Expert’s Wife (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize for best collection...

South Korean avant-garde poet Yi Won grew up in Seoul. She earned a BA from Seoul Institute of the Arts and an MA in creative writing from Dongguk University. Her first poems appeared in print in 1992. She...

Tarik Dobbs is a writer, an artist, and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Their poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best of the Net anthologies as well as in Guernica and in...

Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024), The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing, 2018), and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone, 2017...

Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian is the author of six poetry collections: Lean Against this Late Hour (2020), Acceptance (2015), Hollows (2011), Lines Change Places in the Dark (2008), The Faded Colors of...