John Pleimann
John Pleimann is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He worked for eight years as an advertising copywriter before becoming an English professor at Jefferson College where he taught courses in American...
View ArticleLorenzo Albacete
Lorenzo Manuel Albacete Cintrón was born in 1941 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As a young man, he came to Washington, to attend college for aeronautical engineering and to pursue graduate work in aerospace...
View ArticleA.G. Mojtabai
A.G. Mojtabai (aka “Grace” or “Ann Grace Mojtabai” in separate Google listings) is the author of twelve books. She has no formal literary training. At an early age she began dissection on her own. In...
View ArticleTom Noyes
In addition to The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Novel, Tom Noyes is the author of three story collections: Behold Faith and Other Stories (Dufour 2002), short-listed for Stanford Libraries’ William...
View ArticleKaren An-hwei Lee
Karen An-hwei Leeis the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo 2012), Ardor (Tupelo 2008) and In Medias Res (Sarabande 2004), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award. She authored two novels, Sonata in K...
View ArticleSamuel Martin
Samuel Martin grew up north of Lake Ontario, in a place Canadian poet Al Purdy described as “a little adjacent to where the world is / a little north of where the cities are.” Following an obsession...
View ArticleRowan Williams
Rowan Williams grew up in South Wales and studied theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. A strong interest in Russian Christianity led to research at Oxford in the religious thinkers of the Russian...
View ArticleLuigi Giussani
Luigi Giovanni Giussani was born on October 15, 1922, in Desio, a small town in Brianza, north of Milan, Italy. Giussani was ordained a priest on May 26, 1945. During high school, he fell in love with...
View ArticleGiovanni Testori
Giovanni Testori was an Italian writer, journalist, poet, art and literary critic, playwright, screenwriter, theater director, and painter. He was born in 1923, in Novate Milanese, a town on the...
View ArticleJonathan Geltner
Jonathan Geltner was born in Eastern Massachusetts but grew up mainly in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied English, Classics, and French at the University of Cincinnati, pursued graduate work in English at...
View ArticleNance Van Winckel
Nance Van Winckel, poet and fiction writer, is the author of five books of fiction, most recently Ever Yrs, a novel in the form of a scrapbook (Twisted Road Publications, 2014) and Boneland: Linked...
View ArticleMarco Bardazzi
Marco Bardazzi is the co-founder of Bea – Be a Media Company, a strategic communication agency based in Milan, Italy. From 2015 to 2020, Marco was Communications Director at ENI. As Executive Vice...
View ArticleRichard Michelson
RICHARD MICHELSON’s poetry collections include Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant Books), More Money than God (Pitt Poetry Series), a finalist for the Paterson Prize, Battles and Lullabies (U of...
View ArticleAmit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is a poet, novelist, essayist, translator, and the former first Poet Laureate of Ohio. He works as a diagnostic and nuclear radiologist and lives in Westerville, Ohio, with his wife and...
View ArticleOlga Sedakova
Olga Sedakova is one of Russia’s most revered poets today. Born in 1949, she emerged as a writer in the late Soviet Underground, and for decades her poetry was published only in samizdat form. Several...
View ArticleRobert Pack
Robert Pack was born in New York City in 1929. His father was a lawyer who served in the New York state legislature. In the fifth grade he entered the Fieldston School of Ethical Culture, where much of...
View ArticleJeanne Murray Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker is the award-winning author of nine volumes of poetry including Coming Into History and Helping the Morning and most recently, Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking (Paraclete...
View ArticleJohn Salter
John Salter was born in North Carolina, raised in eight states, and educated at the University of North Dakota, where he served as co-editor of the literary journal North Country. He is the author of a...
View ArticleJarosław Marek Rymkiewicz
Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (1935–2022) was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist, translator, and literary critic. Among his many books The Final Station: Umschlagplatz and The Hangings have been...
View ArticleMatthew Porto
Matthew Porto is an Italian-American poet from Long Island, NY. He earned a bachelor’s in English at the University of Scranton, where literary Modernism as well as Jesuit theology and philosophy had a...
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