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Diaa Jubaili
Diaa Jubaili (b. 1977, Basra, Iraq) is the author of eight novels and three short-story collections, including What Will We Do Without Calvino?, winner of the Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing, and No Windmills in Basra. He was a contributor to the short-story collection Iraq +100 and has written for the Guardian.
Raushan Jumaniyazova
Raushan Jumaniyazova is a musicologist and art manager who writes for television and radio. Her research interests include the traditional musical culture of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, contemporary music, and cultural management. She was a 2019 Fulbright Scholar (ucsc).
Ha-yun Jung
Ha-yun Jung’s writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Best New American Voices, and other publications. Her translations include fiction by Oh Jung-hee, Kim Hoon, and Shin Kyung-sook, and Wallace Stevens’s poetry collection Harmonium, the first of his books to be made available in Korean. She is currently translating The Ninth Wave, a novel by Choi Eun-mi.
Jung Yong-jun
Korean author Jung Yong-jun began his literary career with the short story “Good Night, Oblo” (굿나잇, 오블로), for which he received the 2009 Hyundai Literature Prize for New Writers. A Walk along Seoulleung, a collection of short stories, is considered a new turning point in Jung’s world of art. His short story “Disappearing Things,” contained therein, won the Moonji Literary Award in 2019.