by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Author(s)hip, Steve Rushton
Steve Rushton Steve Rushton studied art at Kingston Polytechnic, exhibited regularly in England during the 1980s, studied art history at The Courtauld Institute and Birkbeck in the 1990s, and became an art and design history lecturer and arts curriculum area leader....
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Gene Tanta, International Guests, Interviews
Gene Tanta Gene Tanta (Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA, UW-Milwaukee PhD) is a poet, teacher, and translator of contemporary Romanian poetry. Dr. Tanta reads and writes about twentieth-century American poetry, first-generation American poets, and the European Avant-garde....
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Cătălin Pavel, Interviews, Invitați români
Cătălin Pavel Cătălin Pavel este arheolog și scriitor. A publicat romanele Aproape a şaptea parte din lume, Humanitas, 2010, Nicio clipă Portasar, Cartea Românească, 2015, Trecerea, Cartea Românească, 2016. A publicat volumele de poezie Altera Pars, ATU,...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Florin Bican, Interviews, Invitați români
Florin Bican Florin Bican (29.03.1956) – scriitor, traducător şi jurnalist ocazional – e asociat cronologic generaţiei ’80, dar evoluează în afara ei. Scrie constant şi publică sporadic poezie, proză, traduceri şi articole, apărute în România, Marea Britanie, Statele...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Elisabeth Berchtold, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Elisabeth Berchtold Elisabeth Berchtold was born in 1971, in Sweden. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines. Marialucia, Norstedts, 2012, is her first collection of poems, widely aclaimed by readers and literary critics. Kära Svan, Norstedts, 2016, is...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Daniel Owen, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Daniel Owen Daniel Owen is a Brooklyn-based writer and member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective. He is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books, 2015); the chapbooks Authentic Other Landscape (Diez, 2013) and Up in the Empty Ferries (Third Floor...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Henry Finch, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Henry Finch Henry Finch’s poetry appears in The North American Review, The Sugar House Review, The Massachusetts Review, jubilat, The Seattle Review, Prelude, Forklift Ohio, Transom, The Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Franca Treur, Novelists, Story Shelf
Franca Treur Franca Treur (fiction writer; Netherlands) won the 2010 Selexyz Debut Prize for her novel Dorsvloer vol confetti [Confetti on the Threshing Floor], which was released as a feature-length film in 2014. Her second novel, De woongroep [The Roommates], came...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Novelists, Sabata-mpho Mokae, Story Shelf
Sabata-mpho Mokae Sabata-mpho Mokae (South Africa) writes in two languages; English and Setswana, a southern African language. He is the author of a biography The Story of Sol T Plaatje, a youth novella, Dikeledi [Tears], and a poetry collection, Escaping Trauma. His...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Mamle Kabu
Mamle Kabu Mamle Kabu, a writer of Ghanaian and German parentage, was born and raised in Ghana and completed her education in the United Kingdom, graduating from the University of Cambridge with a BA, MA and MPhil. She returned to Ghana in 1992 where she has since...