Calvert Casey, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1923, of an American father and a Cuban mother, was educated in Cuba but lived in New York from 1946 to 1957, when he returned to Havana. During the first years of the Revolution he was an editor and published his short stories in the literary magazine Lunes de Revolución. Soon after this magazine was banned, he chose his second exile in Rome, where he wrote his final story, “Piazza Margana,” in English. He took his life soon after. His single volume of short stories, El regreso, was published in 1963.
Read moreAlejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana in 1904. He briefly studied architecture at the University of Havana, then left to become a journalist, a radio-station director, and a teacher of music and cultural history. He has written a history of Afro-Cuban music and several novels, including The Kingdom of This World, Explosion in a Cathedral, Concierto Barroco, and The Lost Steps, for which he received the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1956. Carpentier was the cultural Attaché at the Cuban Embassy in Paris until his death in 1980.
Read moreLino Novás Calvo
Lino Novás Calvo was born in 1905 and later immigrated to Cuba. He was the first to translate Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, and D.H. Lawrence into Spanish. “The Night the Dead Rose from the Grave” was written in the forties. He has been living in the United States since the Revolution.
Read moreLydia Cabrera
Lydia Cabrera, born in Cuba in 1900, left there for Paris in the twenties. One of the first white writers to study the African roots of Cuban culture, she has published books on Afro-Cuban religion, costumes, and music, books of African names in use in Cuba, and two collections of Negro short stories. She has been living in the United States since the Revolution.
Read moreRichard Burgin
Richard Burgin is the author of Conversations With Jorge Luis Borges, a novel, The Man With the Missing Parts, and the forthcoming Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer. He is the founding editor of the New York Arts Journal and has published in many magazines and anthologies, including Partisan Review, Hudson Review, Chicago Review, Michigan Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Parabola, and The New York Times Magazine.
Read moreMaclin Bocock
Maclin Bocock lives in California. She has contributed to a number of quarterlies including Canto, Fiction International, and The Southern Review. This is her third appearance in Fiction.
Read moreFrederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi and is the editor of the Mississippi Review.
Read moreRussell Banks
Russell Banks’ novels include Hamilton Stark and The Book of Jamaica. “The Child Screams and Looks Back at You” is from Trailerpark, a book of fiction due from Houghton Mifflin in late 1981. Other sections of the book are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, Sun & Moon, Shenandoah, and The Boston Globe Magazine.
Read moreInés Arredondo
Inés Arredondo, born in 1928 in Culiacan, Sinoloa, Mexico, studied drama at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and was a fellow at the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. She has taught at Indiana University, and lived in Montevideo from 1963 to 1964. In 1965 she published La senal, of which ”Mariana” is a selection. In 1979 she won the prestigious Villaurrutia Prize for fiction with her second book of short stories, Rio subterraneo, published by Joaquin Mortiz. She now lives in Mexico.
Read moreReindaldo Arenas
Reindaldo Arenas, born in Cuba in 1943, left there during the 1980 exodus. He has writtern three novels of a projected five-novel cycle, Hallucinations (El mundo alucinante), which has been published in English, Celestino ante el alba (Celestino Before Dawn), and El palacio de las blanqu í simas mofetas (The Palace of Pure White Skunks). He now lives in New York City.
Read moreNaomie Jean-Pierre
Naomie Jean-Pierre is a graduate student in the European joint master’s program in English and American studies at the City College of New York.
Read moreKatie L. Jan
Katie L. Jan is a PhD candidate at University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-editor, with Suzanne Jill Levine, of Untranslatability Goes Global (Routledge, 2018).
Read moreAviva Kana
Aviva Kana is a translator, researcher and instructor from Washington State. Currently a PhD candidate in Hispanic literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, her work focuses on Latin American literature, gender, translation and applied linguistics. Her translations have been published in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, PEN America and Latin American Literature Today. Her translation (in collaboration with Suzanne Jill Levine) of Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga (The Taiga Syndrome) will be published in the fall of 2018.
Read moreLeia Menlove
Leia Menlove’s work has appeared in The Harvard Review, Guernica, Narratively, Catapult, Joyland, Wut, and other publications. She is the author of the fabulist feminist novella How to Train Your Virgin, which was released by Badlands Unlimited and ArtBook, and was featured in The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum After Dark Series, “Conversations with Artists and Writers.” She studied literature and video games at the University of Michigan, and received her MFA in fiction from The New School.
Read moreChristina Rivera-Garza
Christina Rivera-Garza is an author, translator and critic. The recipient of The Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (Paris, 2013); as well as the Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2005); she twice won the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry) and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da. She has developed transnational cross-genre projects with artists and musicians. Born on the US-Mexico border (Matamoros, 1964), she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is currently the distinguished professor of Hispanic studies and creative writing at the University of Houston, and director of its PhD creative writing program in Spanish. She swims. A translation of The Taiga Syndrome by Aviva Kana and Suzanne Jill Levine will be published in Dorothy, a publishing project in the fall of 2018.
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Andrew Wickenden
Andrew Wickenden is a writer, editor, and gardener living in Michigan. His prose has appeared in The Drift, Glimmer Train, Post Road, Witness, and elsewhere. He documents his horticultural endeavors on Instagram @gardening_withnature.
Read moreGloria L. Huang
Gloria L. Huang is a freelance writer. Her fiction has been accepted for publication in literary journals, including Michigan Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, Witness, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Southern Humanities Review, North American Review, Arts & Letters, Washington Square Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Sycamore Review, and The Antigonish Review. She received her B.A. in English literature from Stanford University. She is represented by Laura Cameron and Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency.
Read moreYolande Brener
Yolande Brener has worked as an actress, filmmaker, singer in an all-girl band, and disciple of an alleged Messiah. The story behind her award-winning memoir, Holy Candy, was featured in Fabulous Magazine, The Sun, the Daily Mail, Metro UK, Take a Break, ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Reelz’s Cult of Personality, and Bella Magazine. Her work has been published in New York Press, Fiction, Promethean, (Re) An Ideas Journal, and Harlem World Magazine. Her short story, "Swan Sister',' is featured in Seal Press’s Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions. Brener’s short films as part of Brenimara have won five awards. Yolande Brener teaches English at the City College of New York and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She is currently working on a graphic memoir version of Holy Candy.
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Read moreConstantine Jones
Constantine Jones is the managing editor of Fiction and an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York, where he earned his MFA.
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