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Photo by Johnathon Williamsdiv>Padma Viswanathan
Padma Viswanathan is the author of two novels, The Toss of a Lemon and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, published in eight countries and shortlisted for major prizes, and short stories published in such journals as Granta Online and the Boston Review. She has also written plays, personal essays, cultural journalism, and reviews. Her translation of the Graciliano Ramos novel São Bernardo is forthcoming from New York Review Books in their Classics series.
Marianna Vitale
Marianna Vitale (b. 1993) was born and raised in Rimini, a popular beach resort on Italy’s Adriatic coast. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Scuola Holden and currently works as a copywriter. Her recent fiction has appeared in Rivista Blam and Tropismi.
Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a citizen of the White Earth Nation and has published more than forty books. Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity (2019), a collection of essays, is his most recent publication. Vizenor has received many awards, including the Mark Twain Award.
Emily Vizzo
Journalist and poet Emily Vizzo is the author of the verse collection Giantess (YesYes Books, 2018). She actively volunteers with Writers Resist Los Angeles.
Oleg Vladimirsky
Oleg Vladimirsky lives in Odesa, where he works as a photojournalist at Odesa Evening News.
Tiffanie Vo
Tiffanie Vo is a WLT intern studying human relations and sociology at the University of Oklahoma. She is passionate about sharing her Vietnamese culture and advocating for Asian American rights. When she’s not studying, she is performing spoken word at local open mics and taking kickboxing classes four times a week.
Photo by Dmitry Rozhkovdiv>Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, also spelled Voynovich (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Войно́вич) (born 26 September 1932), is a Russian (formerly Soviet) writer and a dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature.
Tatiana Voltskaya
Tatiana Voltskaya is the author of fifteen published poetry collections, including Cicada (2006) and Trostdroppar (2009). A PEN Club member, she is also the winner of multiple national and international poetry prizes. Since 2000 Voltskaya has worked as an editor and correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, one of the few sources of credible news in the Russian Federation. Surveilled by the Russian secret service agency, the FSB, and officially branded a “foreign agent” in Russia, Voltskaya felt forced to flee her home country and does not know how long her exile might last.
Ute von Funcke
Ute von Funcke, who wrote plays for children before turning to poetry in 2004, has published four collections of poems, most recently in den rissen der zeit (“in the fissures of time”; scaneg Verlag, 2018). A selection of her poetry, translated by Stuart Friebert, Between Question & Answer, appeared in 2018 from Pinyon Press. A companion volume, Shadow of Shadows, will soon follow from Black Mountain Press.
William Voskergian
William Voskergian was born in Jerusalem in 1949. His father, a survivor of the Armenian massacres during the Ottoman Empire, was smuggled into Palestine by William’s grandfather, through the Syrian desert, when he was twelve years old in 1915. His mother is a Palestinian refugee from Nazareth. He is the author of six books of short stories and novels. He has been a teacher of oriental music and a schoolteacher for over forty years.
