Authors List View Etaf Rum ETAF RUM, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her award-winning debut, A Woman Is No Man: A Novel, was a New York Times bestseller. She has a Master of Arts in American and British literature as well as undergraduate degrees in philosophy and English composition, and has taught undergraduate courses in North Carolina, where she lives with her two children and where she runs the Instagram account @booksandbeans. Evil Eye: A Novel (Harper), is her latest book. Luke Orth Russert LUKE ORTH RUSSERT is an Emmy Award–winning journalist who was an NBC News correspondent from 2008 to 2016, primarily covering American politics. Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself, is a travel memoir about his three- and-a-half-year journey around the world that took him to more than 65 countries. Based in Washington, D.C., he is the son of journalists Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair, and the late Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press. Carl Safina CARL SAFINA is an ecologist and the author of Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace, and Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. He is a recipient of Pew, MacArthur, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundation fellowships, and has written for The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, and National Geographic. He lives on Long Island, New York. Leslie Sainz The daughter of Cuban exiles, LESLIE SAINZ is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI, jubilat, Narrative, and elsewhere. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, Sainz has received scholarships, fellowships, and honors from CantoMundo, Miami Writers Institute, the Adroit Journal, and Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University. She is the managing editor of the New England Review. Gisela Salomón GISELA SALOMÓN es corresponsal en Miami de Associated Press con más de 25 años de experiencia en periodismo. Ha cubierto diversos temas, desde inmigración hasta política y economía latinoamericana. Antes de unirse a AP, trabajó en medios como Clarín, Página 12 y El Nuevo Herald. Ha recibido premios por investigaciones periodísticas, incluyendo el Premio de Periodismo Philip Meyer 2018. Gisela es Licenciada en Comunicación Social y tiene un postgrado en periodismo de la Universidad Católica Argentina, además de estudiar en la Universidad de Miami con una beca Fulbright de perfeccionamiento periodístico. Este año conversará con los autores Enzo Maqueira y Claudia Piñeiro en la sesión La literatura: espejo de la sociedad. Anastasia Samoylova ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA is a Miami-based artist who moves between observational photography and studio art practice. Her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism, and the picturesque. Recent exhibitions include Fundación Mapfre; C/O Berlin; Eastman Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art; The Photographer's Gallery, London; Kunst Haus Wien; HistoryMiami Museum; and Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle. In 2022 she was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Her work is in the collections at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the High Museum of Art Atlanta, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, among others. Her published monographs include Image Cities (Fundación Mapfre/Hatje Cantz, 2023), Floridas (Steidl, 2022), and FloodZone (Steidl, 2019). Dan Santat DAN SANTAT is the Caldecott Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, and the road trip/time travel adventure Are We There Yet?. His artwork is also featured in numerous picture books, chapter books, and middle-grade novels, including Dav Pilkey's Ricky Ricottaseries. Santat lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, and many, many pets. His middle-grade graphic memoir, A First Time for Everything (First Second), has been longlisted for a 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Esmeralda Santiago ESMERALDA SANTIAGO is the author of Conquistadora: A Novel and When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir and Almost A Woman: A Memoir, which was adapted into a Peabody Award-winning movie for PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she lives with her husband, documentary filmmaker Frank Cantor, in New York, and Port Clyde, Maine. Joseph Sassoon JOSEPH SASSOON is professor of history and politics at Georgetown University. He is also a senior associate member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, England, and a trustee of the Bodleian Library. His previous books include the prize-winning Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party, The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East, and Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics. Patricia J. Saunders PATRICIA J. SAUNDERS is associate professor of English at the University of Miami, where she co-edits Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. She is the author of Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2007) and co-editor of Music. Memory. Resistance: Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination (2007). Her second book, Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2022) examines contemporary Caribbean popular modes of expression to argue that consumption is still a dominant factor in determining citizenship. Her work has appeared in Small Axe, Transforming Anthropology, the Journal of West Indian Literature, and Feminist Studies. Sam Sax SAM SAX is a queer, Jewish writer and educator. They are the author of Madness and Bury It; a National Poetry Series winner; and a recipient of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They are a two-time Bay Area GrandSLAM champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta, and elsewhere. Sax has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and Yaddo, and is currently serving as a lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University. Their first novel, Yr Dead, will be published by McSweeney’s in 2024. Michael Sayman Teen entrepreneur, programmer, and student MICHAEL SAYMAN created an iOS app development company at 13 after teaching himself to code. Since then, he has gone on to create dozens of apps, which have been downloaded more than 3 million times worldwide. App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream (Vintage) is his debut book. Simon Schama SIMON SCHAMA is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother; The American Future: A History; Rough Crossings, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner; The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented 40 television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art. Ana Schein ANA SCHEIN nació en Uruguay en 1970. Es abogada, escritora, editora y profesora de escritura creativa. Doctora en Derecho y Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de la República, posee una maestría en la Enseñanza de la Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Alcalá. Sus textos aparecen en antologías publicadas en España, Uruguay, Argentina y Estados Unidos. En 2018 fundó la Escuela de Escritura A2Vuelapluma y en 2020 la revista literaria Trazos, que ha publicado a más de 150 autores de habla hispana. En mayo de 2023 se publicó su primera novela: “Amira. Historias de mujeres”, editorial Universo de Letras. Presenta en la Feria Ni locas ni solas. Narrativa escrita por mujeres en Estados Unidos (El Beisman Press, 2023), un volumen que reúne el trabajo de 35 autoras ubicadas a lo largo del país. El cuerpo narrativo demuestra la solidez de la voz de la mujer en español y su trascendencia dentro del mundo de las letras estadounidenses. Gesi Schilling GESI SCHILLING photographer. Daniel Schulman DANIEL SCHULMAN is the bestselling author of Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, which was a finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. The Deputy Washington Bureau Chief of Mother Jones, Schulman splits his time between Washington, D.C., and Melrose, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and son. Will Schwalbe WILL SCHWALBE has worked in book publishing, currently as an editor at Macmillan; in digital media; and as a journalist, writing for various publications including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of Books for Living and The End of Your Life Book Club, and co-authored Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better with David Shipley. He lives in New York. Jim Sciutto JIM SCIUTTO is CNN's chief national security correspondent and the anchor of CNN Newsroom, airing Monday through Friday mornings. He reports and provides analysis across the network’s programs and platforms on all aspects of U.S. national security, including foreign policy, the military, the intelligence community, and the State Department. He has reported from more than 50 countries across the globe, including dozens of assignments from inside Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. Among the honors his work has earned are Emmy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the George Polk Award, and the White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage. Sciutto is the bestselling author of The Shadow War. Nicole Sealey NICOLE SEALEY is the author of Ordinary Beast, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named. Her honors include a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University. Joey Seeman JOEY SEEMAN is a writer, graphic designer, painter, and DJ. His works have been published in Spin, Art Alternatives, Ocean Drive, and Juxtapoz, and been shown in galleries in Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland, and Miami, including the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. During the burgeoning South Beach art scene of the early 1990s, Seeman collaborated with artist Tomatâ Du Plenty (lead singer of the seminal LA punk band The Screamers), staging numerous exhibitions in alternative spaces. He is a Miami native currently living in Dallas. Sean Sexton SEAN SEXTON was born and raised on his family's Treasure Hammock Ranch and divides his time between managing a 700-acre cow-calf and seed stock operation, painting, and writing. He is the author of Blood Writing: Poems; May Darkness Restore: Poems; and two chapbooks. Sexton has performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada; Miami Book Fair; and the High Road Festival of Poetry and Short Fiction in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020 and 2021, and received a Florida Individual Artist's Fellowship in 2001. Charif Shanahan CHARIF SHANAHAN is an American poet and translator. Dani Shapiro DANI SHAPIRO is the author of 11 books and the host and creator of the hit podcast Family Secrets. Her most recent book, Signal Fires: A Novel, is a national bestseller, and was named a best book of 2022 by Time, The Washington Post, Amazon, and others. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of 2019 by Elle, VanityFair, Wired, and Real Simple. Her work has been published in 14 languages and she’s currently developing Signal Fires for its television adaptation. Her book on the process and craft of writing, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, is being reissued in this, its 10th anniversary year. Shapiro occasionally teaches workshops and retreats and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. Marjory Sheba MARJORY SHEBA is an acclaimed Haitian American writer recognized for her book Advice to My Daughter: 99 Lessons on Love, Life, Success, and Society, where she integrates her experiences as a single parent, businessperson, and observer of life to offer profound insights and wisdom. As a transformational speaker, Sheba has achieved international recognition, resonating with audiences through her reflections on life’s joys and challenges. Beyond authorship, she is a successful entrepreneur and a dedicated community figure in South Florida, committed to sharing her extensive knowledge and experiences to empower others. Awarded as one of South Florida’s Top 40 Under 40, Sheba’s impactful teachings and unwavering commitment have earned her accolades and reverence worldwide. Her versatile roles as an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and community leader illustrate her multifaceted approach to life, and her enduring passion for fostering positive change and understanding in the diverse communities she serves. Stuart Sheldon Multidisciplinary artist STUART SHELDON is best known for collage and text paintings exploring literature, and installations invoking social justice. A Miami native, his 2018 gun-sense billboard “How Was School Today?” was part of “the largest creative collaboration in U.S. history” and earned him an Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts, which honor “the backbone of Miami’s visual arts community.” He co-hosts the Swan Dive podcast, which features guests from across the world who have pivoted in life to chase their dream. Sheldon lives in a remote seaside village in Costa Rica with his wife and two teenage sons. He surfs every day. Evie Shockley EVIE SHOCKLEY is a poet and scholar, and the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers University. A Lannan Literary Award-winner, she is the author of multiple books of poetry including a half-red sea; the new black, which received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; and semiautomatic, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018. Her latest collection, suddenly we (Wesleyan University Press), has been longlisted for a 2023 National Book Award for Poetry. Daniel Silva DANIEL SILVA is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 26 novels, including The Collector, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, and The Cellist. His books are critically acclaimed around the world and have been translated into more than 30 languages. Silva is married to television journalist Jamie Gangel; they have boy-girl twins, Lily and Nicholas. Laura Sims LAURA SIMS is the author of the critically acclaimed Looker: A Novel, which is in development for television with eOne and Emily Mortimer’s King Bee Productions. An award-winning poet, Sims has published four poetry collections, and her essays and poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, Electric Literature, and more. She and her family live in New Jersey, where she works part-time as a reference librarian and hosts the library’s lecture series. Safiya Sinclair SAFIYA SINCLAIR was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the poetry collection Cannibal and the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category, and the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in poetry. Cannibal was also selected as one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN America Literary Awards and the Seamus Heaney Centre’s Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. How to Say Babylon: A Memoir (37 Ink) is her latest work. Rossana Sisso ROSSANA SISSO trabajó como psicóloga escolar por más de treinta años, tanto en Caracas como en Florida. Desde siempre fue ávida lectora y, en esta nueva etapa de su vida, una apasionada de la escritura. Ha sido ganadora de la edición 2021 de Cuéntale tu Cuento a La Nota Latina, con su relato “El siglo XXI”, el cual forma parte de la antología Cuentos con sabor Hispano. Sus relatos también han sido publicados en la antología Con la urgencia de un instante. Es colaboradora regular de la revista Trazos de A2Vuelapluma. Presenta en la Feria Ni locas ni solas. Narrativa escrita por mujeres en Estados Unidos (El Beisman Press, 2023), un volumen que reúne el trabajo de 35 autoras ubicadas a lo largo del país. El cuerpo narrativo demuestra la solidez de la voz de la mujer en español y su trascendencia dentro del mundo de las letras estadounidenses. Posts navigation ← Previous 1 … 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Next →
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