is a prize-winning author of both fiction and poetry. A full-time writer, he was born in Cork in 1955, where he still lives. He graduated from University College Cork in Philosophy and English, and is one of two fiction writers to emerge from the group of writers that developed around the English Department there in the late seventies. His fourth novel This Is The Country was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2005 and shortlisted for The Irish Book Awards and the Young Mind Prize. His work has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Latvian and Dutch. His fiction has been published in Ireland, England and the USA. His poetry and fiction have won numerous accolades, including The Patrick Kavanagh and Sean O’Faoláin Awards, and ‘Surrender’ was shortlisted for the Raymond Carver Prize. He has published four novels and two collections of poetry. His stories were collected as No Paradiso in 2006. He has also written for children. He reviews for The Irish Times and is an occasional contributor to other journals. homepage.eircom.net/~williamwall/williamwall/Welcome.html
has worked in the information field since 1975 in a number of countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. She began her library career at Cairo University Library, taught librarianship in the first women’s library program in Saudi Arabia and was the Dean of Libraries at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago from 1988 until 2004. Dr. Wastawy was appointed in July 2004 as the first Chief Librarian for the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Dr. Wastawy has been the recipient of many awards, a Peace Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship and has written and spoken extensively on library and information management issues.
translates contemporary Polish poetry into English. Her translations have appeared in, among others, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Ireland Review, Edinburgh Review, Acumen, Magma, Brand, The Wolf, Chicago Review, as well as in various anthologies (most recently New European Poets, Graywolf Press, 2008, and Six Polish Poets, Arc, 2009). She also translates from the English. She regularly reviews poetry translations from Central and Eastern Europe. She is a contributing editor to Poetry Wales. In co-operation with the British Council, Polish Book Institute and Polish Cultural Institute she has organized translation workshops, seminars and poetry readings in Kraków and in the UK to promote contemporary poetry in translation. She also translates from the English. She co-edited (together with Marcin Baran and Anna Skucińska) Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird. Poetry from Poland: A bilingual edition (Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press, 2004). Her Salt Monody is a selection of fifty-three translations from Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar (Zephyr Press, 2006). She co-edits Przekładaniec, a refereed journal of literary translation published in Kraków, Poland. She lives in Copenhagen.
was born in Glasgow in 1952. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in Italy and from 1990 to 2005 was on the staff of the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Today he lives in Budapest and writes full time. Of his four novels in English, two have received Scottish Arts Council awards. His first collection of poems in Gaelic Uirsgeul / Myth (1991) won a Saltire prize. An Tràth Duilich / The Difficult Time followed in 2002. Dealbh Athar / Portrait of a Father will appear in Gaelic and Irish in 2008, to be followed in 2009 by a collected volume, An Daolag Shìonach / The Chinese Beetle. Christopher is also the author of Modern Scottish Poetry (2004) and the editor of Gendering the Nation (1995). He has translated poetry from a wide range of languages into both English and Gaelic. www.aboutchristopherwhyte.com
was born in Namaqualand, South Africa, and attended the University of Western Cape where she was later invited to lecture following the abolition of apartheid. She has lived in the UK for the past twenty-five years and lectures at the English Department at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Her first book, a collection of loosely linked stories You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) brought her immediate acclaim and was re-issued in the Virago Modern Classics series. Her novel, David's Story (2001), awarded the prestigious South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize, “brings to life the history of the aboriginal Griqua people in a multi-layered reflection on the meanings of freedom and bondage in South Africa”. Her work has been translated into Dutch, German, French, Italian and Swedish and her short stories have been included in numerous magazines and anthologies such as The Penguin Book of Contemporary African Short Stories and The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories.
lives in north Wales and works as a lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Wales in Bangor, teaching, researching and writing on issues of equal opportunity. In her spare time she is involved in a number of community projects aimed at creating a space for the black people of Wales. She is the main editor of A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales. In her memoir Sugar & Slate (2001) a second generation black Briton travels from Wales, the home of her white mother, to Africa and the Caribbean in search of her estranged father, the Guyanese archaeologist, painter and novelist, Denis Williams. What begins as a journey of discovery becomes a confrontation with herself and with the idea of Wales and Welshness.
is currently Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City Libraries. He runs a monthly “Literary Cabaret” called The Golden Hour and is an Editor at Forest Publications. His work has appeared in New Writing Scotland, The American Poetry Review, AGNI and Northwords Now. He lives in Edinburgh but is still an American. In 2010 he won Salt’s Crashaw Prize and his first collection will be released by the end of 2010. http://ryanvanwinkle.com/. Ryan is currently involved with the Word Express project for young writers and translators in South East Europe, visit www.word-express.org to find out more.
(born in 1953 in Egypt) is a British poet who grew up in Ghana. Woods began his teaching career at the University of Salerno. Since 1990 he has worked at Nottingham Trent University, where, in 1998, he was appointed Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies, the first such appointment in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a PhD by the University of East Anglia in 1983, and a DLitt in 2006. Woods' main areas of interest are twentieth-century gay and lesbian literature; post-war gay and lesbian film and cultural studies; and the AIDS epidemic. In addition to his poetry collections, he is the author of a number of critical books, including Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998). He has been a member of the board of directors of East Midlands Arts, a Midlands Regional darts champion (1995) and is a Fellow of the English Association.