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Michael Favala Goldman
Danish translator Michael Favala Goldman (b. 1966) is also a poet, jazz clarinetist, gardener, and educator. Over 140 of Goldman’s translations and poems have appeared in dozens of journals such as the Harvard Review and the Columbia Journal. His translation of Dependency, by Tove Ditlevsen, is the third book in The Copenhagen Trilogy (Penguin Classics / FSG). His fifteen books include his own original poetry and works by Knud Sørensen, Cecil Bødker, Suzanne Brøgger, Benny Andersen, and others. He lives in western Massachusetts.
Adam J. Goldwyn
Adam J. Goldwyn is an associate professor of English at North Dakota State University. His most recent books include the biography Rae Dalven: The Life of a Greek-Jewish American (2022) and Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War 2 (2022).
Evgeny Golubovsky
Evgeny Golubovsky is a writer and editor in chief of the newspaper World Odessa News.
Bruna Gomes
Bruna Gomes is an Australian-Brazilian novelist and poet. She is the author of How to Disappear and Triple Citizenship. Gomes’s work is featured in various journals, including the Cordite Poetry Review, Paper Crane Journal, and the Columbia Review. In June 2022 she was a writer in residence at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy. Bruna is the recipient of the Fred Rush Convocation Prize.
Miguel Gomes
Miguel Gomes (b. 1964, Venezuela) is the award-winning author of eight collections of short fiction and one novel, Retrato de un Caballero (2015). His scholarly work has earned him such distinctions as the Orden Alejo Zuloaga, the Orden José Félix Ribas, and the José Martí Essay Award.
Rain C. Goméz
Rain C. Goméz won the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas 2009 First Book Award (Poetry) for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press, 2012). Currently working on her dissertation, “Gumbo Banaha Stories: Locating Louisiana Indians and Creoles in the Indigenous Diaspora of the American South,” she has also completed a second manuscript of poetry, “Miscegenation Round Dance: Poèmes Historiques.” Goméz’s writings have been published in SING: Indigenous Poetry of the Americas, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and others.
George Gömöri
George Gömöri is a Hungarian-born retired lecturer at the University of Cambridge and has been a member of the editorial board of Books Abroad/WLT since the late 1960s. He is a prizewinning poet and translator, now living in London. His Polish publications include a book of correspondence with Jerzy Giedroyc, editor of the émigré journal Kultura (2018).
Bárbara Renaud González
Bárbara Renaud González was born in Texas, in the shadow of the Goliad Mission and el golfo. Her father was a sharecropper from the King Ranch, and her mother sold chiclets on the streets in Mexico. Her first novel, Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? (University of Texas Press, 2009), is based on her mother’s story.
Gemma Gorga
Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968, where she is a professor of medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature. Author of six collections of poetry, her most recent volume is Mur (2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana.
Angélica Gorodischer
Angélica Gorodischer (b. 1928, Buenos Aires) has lived most of her life in Rosario, Argentina. The recipient of numerous awards, she is the author of some thirty books. Three of her novels have appeared in English: Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (2003); Trafalgar, translated by Amalia Gladhart (2013); and Prodigies, translated by Sue Burke (2015).
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov (b. 1968) is one of the most widely translated Bulgarian authors. His most recent poetry collection is Where We Are Not, winner of the 2016 Quill Award for Poetry. His second novel, The Physics of Sorrow (2015), was awarded the Jan Michalski Prize for literature and was a finalist for PEN Translation Prize.
Koushik Goswami
Koushik Goswami is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was a Humanities Visiting Scholar at the University of Exeter. Earlier, he completed his M.Phil in English from the University of Burdwan. He has published several articles in various journals, including “Rewriting Tibet in The Tibetan Suitcase: A Novel (2019) by Tsering Namgyal Khortsa” (Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities) and “The Tibetan Resistance Movement and Windhorse: In Conversation with Kaushik Barua” (World Literature Today). His areas of interest include South Asian literature, diaspora studies, and postcolonial literature.
Patricia Grace
2008 Neustadt Prize Laureate Patricia Grace was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives on the ancestral land of her father's people in Plimmerton, a small coastal community. Grace has been writing and publishing since the mid-1970s. Her previous awards include the New Zealand Fiction Award in 1987 and the Frankfurt Liberaturepreis in 1994 for her novel Potiki, which has been translated into several languages. She received the Hubert Church Prose Award for Best First Book for Waiariki in 1976. Dogside Story won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize in 2001 and was also long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her novel Tu was awarded the Deutz Medal for fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2005.
Reyna Grande
Reyna Grande is the author of the best-selling memoir The Distance Between Us and its sequel, A Dream Called Home. She has received an American Book Award and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.
Mary B. Gray
Mary B. Gray is a poet who recently received her master of fine arts from Oklahoma City University. Her work has been published in Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing, Territory Magazine, and For the Sonorous.
Anne Greeott
Anne Greeott’s translations have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Journal of Italian Translation, Italian Poetry Review, Atticus Review, and are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest.
J’aime Griffith
J’aime Griffith is currently a grad student at the University of Oklahoma studying modern dance in the OU School of Dance. She studied at Grambling State University and the Ailey School and began her professional career with Samba/Salsa Entertainment, Awaken Dance Theatre, and Atmosphere. For the OU School of Dance, she choreographed and designed/constructed costumes for Am I There Yet, Disposition (Young Choreographers Showcase, 2020, 2021), Our Spring Will Come, Headlines, Piping Tunes (Modernist Adventures in Music and Dance 2021), performed Ashes, Ashes, choreographed by Austin Hartel (Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, 2020), and taught modern dance level 1 and modern dance level 2. In her free time, she teaches modern dance at Freedom Dance Studio in Oklahoma City.
Hannah Grillot
Hannah Grillot is an undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma pursuing degrees in dramaturgy, international development, and religious studies. During the school year, she is an intern for World Literature Today.
Lena Bezawork Grönlund
Lena Bezawork Grönlund is a writer from Sweden, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her first novel, Slag, was published in Sweden in 2017. She has also published poetry in several journals.
Photo: Zoe Grindeadiv>Hagit Grossman
Hagit Grossman, a writer living in Tel Aviv, is the author of Trembling of the City (Shearsman, 2016). She has been shortlisted for the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award. Her poems in translation have appeared in the New Yorker and in Poetry International.
Charo Guerra
Cuban writer Charo Guerra (b. María del Rosario Guerra Ayala; Limonar, Matanzas, 1962) is author of the poetry collections Un sitio bajo el cielo (1991;, Vámonos a Icaria (1998), winner of the prestigious New Pines Prize; and Luna de los pobres (2011), awarded the José Jacinto Milanés Prize. She has also written the short-story collection Pasajes de la vida breve (2007).