Novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright Chris Abani grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria. Abani earned a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria; an MA in English, Gender and Culture...
Poet Francesca Abbate earned a BA at Beloit College, an MFA at the University of Montana, and a PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her poems have appeared in...
Novelist and poet George Abbe was born in Somers, Connecticut. He earned a BA at the University of New Hampshire and an MFA at the University of Iowa. In his...
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 the...
Muhammad Abdul-Hai was a prominent Sudanese poet and literary figure. He studied English literature at the University of Khartoum, and later earned a master's degree from Leeds University and a...
Muna Abdulahi is a Somali-American poet and child of refugees. Her work has been featured in Button Poetry, African Poetry Journal, and other publications. She is a Minnesotan living in...
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem (Pānini) is the winner of the University of Ilorin Student Union Writers’ Competition. He is a member of the Frontiers Collective.
Hanif Abdurraqib is the author of the poetry collections A Fortune for Your Disaster (2019) and They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), and the book of cultural...
Poet and literary critic Lascelles Abercrombie was born at Ashton upon Mersey, near Manchester, England. He was educated at Malvern College and Owens (now Victoria University of Manchester) and worked...
Andrea Abi-Karam (they/them) is a trans, Arab American punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019) and Villainy (Nightboat Books, 2021), which reimagines militant collectivity...
Charlotte Abotsi is a writer, educator, and filmmaker from Providence, Rhode Island. As a spoken word poet, she has competed in several international slams, placing in the top 20 poets...
Writer Marguerite Abouet was born in the Yopougon area of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. At age 12, she moved to Paris, where she completed her education. Abouet worked as a legal...
George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet from Jacksonville, Florida. They are the author of Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), and the chapbooks: the specimen's apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019) and al youm (TAR, 2017). He is...
William Abrahams was born and raised in the Boston area and educated at Harvard University. After serving in World War II, he published poetry and novels, including By the Beautiful...
Seth Abramson is the author of six books of poetry, including The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009), Northerners (New Issues, 2011), and, most recently, Golden Age (BlazeVOX Books, 2017). He...
The title of Dannie Abse’s collected poems, White Coat, Purple Coat (1989), refers to his lifelong professions of physician and poet. Of these careers, Abse has stated, “I like to...
Jessica Abughattas is the author of Strip (University of Arkansas Press, 2020), winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. From 2020 to 2022, Abughattas was the poet laureate of Altadena, California...
Portuguese-American writer Millicent Borges Accardi is the author of four poetry books, most recently Only More So (Salmon Poetry, 2016). She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, CantoMundo, Yaddo, Creative...
Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, including Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish Books, 2019), Meet Me There:...