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Authors
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Renee H. Shea
Renee H. Shea, formerly professor of English at Bowie State University in Maryland, frequently contributes to Poets & Writers, most recently a profile of Edwidge Danticat. She is currently doing a series for the American Book Review on “The Laureates.” She also coauthors English language arts textbooks for Bedford, Freeman & Worth.
Peter Sheehy
Peter Sheehy is a publishing industry misfit, a New York local and San Francisco expat who waves to cats across streets. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Catamaran Literary Reader, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in the Florida Review.
Deema K. Shehabi
Deema K. Shehabi is a poet and editor. Her first book, Thirteen Departures from the Moon, was published by Press 53. She’s also co-author, with Marilyn Hacker, of Diaspo/Renga, a book-length poem that involves a call and response in the tradition of Japanese renga. Deema’s poems have been widely published in literary journals, and she’s also co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received NCBR’s recognition award (see WLT, May 2012). She is also the winner of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize (2018), recipient of a Best of the Net nomination (2021), as well as several Pushcart prize nominations. Her work has been translated into Arabic, French, and Farsi. Deema is Palestinian, born and raised in Kuwait.
Photo: Joe Mazzadiv>Matthew Shenoda
Matthew Shenoda is the author and editor of several poetry collections and a founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is currently associate provost for social equity and inclusion as well as professor of literary arts at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
Sherry Shenoda
Sherry Shenoda is a Coptic American poet and pediatrician, born in Cairo, living in California. Her work is at the intersection of human rights and child health. Her first novel, The Lightkeeper, was published in May 2021.
Victor Shepelev
Victor Shepelev is a software architect and writer from Kharkiv. He organized international online poetry festivals even before Covid.
Photo: Courtesy of the Poetry Foundationdiv>Frank Sherlock
Frank Sherlock approaches the work of poet as conduit and the writing process as collaborations of encounter. He is a founder of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension), which enacts roving guerrilla readings/performances in public spaces. Poems beyond the page have found their forms in installations/performances/exhibitions, including Refuse/Reuse: Language for the Common Landfill, Kensington Riots Project, Neighbor Ballads, and B. Franklin Basement Tapes. He is the author of Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated (Ixnay Press, 2014), The City Real & Imagined (w/ CA Conrad), Over Here (2009), and Ready-to-Eat Individual (w/ Brett Evans, 2008). He is a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature and the second Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.
Mahtem Shiferraw
Mahtem Shiferraw is the author of three poetry collections: Fuchsia, which won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets; Your Body Is War; and, most recently, Nomenclatures of Invisibility, published by BOA Editions. Originally from Ethiopia and Eritrea, she now lives in Los Angeles and serves on the WLT editorial board.
Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl
Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl was born in Tehran in 1981. She received her doctorate in linguistics and Persian literature. She writes fiction in addition to being a practicing translator into Persian herself. Her short-story collection This May Be the Only Way (2015) and her novel Mana (2017) have been published in Iran. “Anahita” appears in This May Be the Only Way.
Mikhail Shishkin
Mikhail Shishkin is a prominent author of fiction and essays. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Russian Booker, the National Bestseller Prize, the Big Book Prize, and, most recently, the Italian Strega Prize. He is a long-standing and outspoken critic of the Putin regime whose essays have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde, and elsewhere. Since 1995, he has lived and worked in Switzerland.
David Shook
Poet David Shook’s most recent book-length translations include Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Room in Rome, a finalist for the PEN Award and National Translation Award. Their forthcoming books include a new translation of Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon and a collection of Spanish-language poetry, Atlas estelar.
Heather J. Shotton
Heather J. Shotton is a citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and is also a Cheyenne and Kiowa descendant. She is an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She served as co-editor for the recently released books Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education (Rutgers University Press) and Beyond Access: Indigenizing Programs for Native American Student Success (Stylus Publishing).
Kim Shuck
Kim Shuck is a poet and bead artist. She is the oldest daughter of Tsalagi and Goral families. Her poems can be found in packets of coffee, many literature periodicals, both online and paper, and in the pockets and notebooks of students. Her most recent book is Clouds Running In.
Mahmoud Shukair
Mahmoud Shukair was born in Jerusalem in 1941. He is the author of more than seventy books of short stories and novels, which have been translated into many languages. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Mahmoud Darwish Prize for Freedom and Creativity (2011) and the Jerusalem Prize for Culture and Creativity (2015).
Gunter Silva
Gunter Silva has published a collection of short stories, Crónicas de Londres (2012), and a novel, Pasos Pesados (2016). He studied law and political science at the Universidad Católica de Santa María in Peru and holds a BA in arts and humanities and also completed an MA in creative writing at the University of Westminster.
ire’ne lara silva
ire’ne lara silva (irenelarasilva.wordpress.com) is the author of four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI / House of Song, and FirstPoems, and a short-story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. A new poetry collection, the eaters of flowers, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024.
Photo: Bob Hsiangdiv>Kevin Simmonds
Kevin Simmonds is a poet and musician originally from New Orleans. His full-length collections include Mad for Meat and Bend to It, the edited anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, and, most recently, the chapbook The Noh of Dorian Corey. He lives in San Francisco.
Sam Simmons
Sam Simmons is a writer from San Jose, California. He is currently a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz, majoring in literature.
Cecilia Simon
Cecilia Simon is a junior at the University of Oklahoma. She is studying psychology and pre-medicine, with a minor in Spanish. She hopes to attend the OU College of Medicine and become a pediatric psychiatrist.
Photo by Alba Simondiv>Daniel Simon
Daniel Simon is a poet, essayist, translator, and WLT’s assistant director and editor in chief. His 2017 edited volume, Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017, won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. His most recent edited collection, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Deep Vellum/Phoneme, 2020), was a Publishers Weekly starred pick. Under a Gathering Sky, his third book of poems, was published by SFA Press in April 2024.
Sofia Simon
Sofia Simon is currently a junior at Norman High School. She plans on studying environmental science in college.
Ekaterina Simonova
Ekaterina Simonova is a Russian poet and literary critic from Nizhny Tagil in the Ural region. Her latest collection is Два ее единственных платья (Her only two dresses, 2020), and several of her poems appeared in the English-language anthology Ф Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry, published in 2020. She lives in Yekaterinburg.
Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh’s short pieces have appeared in Granta, Brick, Walrus, Zoetrope, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the New York Times. He is the author of the poetry collections November and How to Hold a Pebble; the novels Helium, Chef, and Face; the story collection Seventeen Tomatoes; and the memoir My Mother, My Translator. Dreams of the Epoch and the Rock, his newest book, will be published this fall.
Kedarnath Singh
Kedarnath Singh (1934–2018) was a poet, critic, and essayist of Hindi literature. He received the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, in 2013. His anthologies include Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Yahan Se Dekho, Zameen Pak Rahi hai, Akaal Mein Saaras, and Bagh.
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an Indian-American poet, writer, filmmaker, and author of four poetry collections. Her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in notable journals worldwide, and her works have been translated into many languages. Poems from her award-winning book Bare Soul and a poetry film, River of Songs, included in the Nova Collection and the Polaris Collection of the Lunar Codex time capsules, are set to go to the moon with NASA’s Nova-C lander missions to Oceanus Procellarum in 2022 and NASA’s Viper rover mission to the lunar south pole in 2023. Her forthcoming poetry collection, Trespassing My Ancestral Lands, is in the making.
