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  • Shadab Zeest Hashmi

    Shadab Zeest Hashmi, author of Kohl and Chalk and Baker of Tarifa, is the recipient of the San Diego Book Award, the Nazim Hikmet Prize, and multiple Pushcart nominations. She has been published in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, Asymptote, and other journals worldwide. Her work has been translated into Spanish and Urdu.


  • Rosemary Haskell

    Rosemary Haskell teaches in the English Department at Elon University, with main teaching and scholarly interests in British and world literature. Recent work includes “Plotting Migritude: Variations of the Bildungsroman in Fatou Diome’s Le ventre de l’Atlantique and Celles qui attendent” (South Atlantic Review, Spring 2016). She is editor, with Thomas Arcaro, of Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen (Pearson, 2010).



  • Tiffany Hawk

    The author of the novel Love Me Anyway, Tiffany Hawk has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times , CNN, NPR, and the Rumpus, among others.


  • Kevin Haworth

    Kevin Haworth is the author of four books, including the essay collection Famous Drownings in Literary History. The director of the low-residency MFA program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, he is at work on Rutu Modan: War, Love and Secrets, a study of Israel’s leading graphic novelist.


  • Lisa C. Hayden

    Lisa C. Hayden’s translations include Eugene Vodolazkin’s The Aviator, Solovyov and Larionov, and Laurus, which won a Read Russia Prize and was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, for which her translation of Vadim Levental’s Masha Regina was also a finalist. Lisa’s blog, Lizok’s Bookshelf, focuses on contemporary Russian fiction. 



  • Belinda Qian He

    Belinda Q. He is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She recently received her PhD in cinema and media studies (CMS) from the University of Washington, Seattle, and worked as a CCS postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. At the intersection of film/media studies, art history, and legal humanities, her research engages the role of global and Asian screen media in structural violence and justice making. She is an incoming assistant professor of East Asian and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and will begin teaching next year.



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    Clemonce Heard

    Clemonce Heard is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga–Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, selected by Major Jackson. His collection, Tragic City, which investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October 2021.


  • Tobias Hecht

    Tobias Hecht is the author of the ethnographic novel After Life. His book At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil won the Margaret Mead Prize.



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    Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

    Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include The Year of the Rat; Dog Road Woman; Off-Season City Pipe; Blood Run; Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas; Effigies I & II; Rock, Ghost Willow, Deer; Burn; and Streaming. Awards include an American Book Award, a King-Chavez-Parks Award, an NWCA Lifetime Achievement Award, and a 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. She directs the Literary Sandhill CraneFest in Nebraska and is currently Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.



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    Allison Hedge Coke

    Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include Streaming, Burn, and Effigies III. Her recent awards include the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship, the First Jade Nurtured SiHui Female International Poetry Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals. A distinguished professor of creative writing at UC Riverside and a former sharecropper, she has worked fields, factories, waters.


  • Kathleen Heil

    Kathleen Heil’s stories, poems, essays, and translations have appeared in such journals as Guernica, Pear Noir!, Michigan Quarterly Review, Diagram, Gigantic, and The Barcelona Review


  • Bridey Heing

    Bridey Heing (brideyheing.com) is a contributing editor to World Literature Today and a freelance writer. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, the Daily Beast, and others.



  • Sheikha Helawy

    Palestinian writer Sheikha Helawy was born in Dhayl ’Araj, an unrecognized Bedouin village near Haifa. She is the author of three collections of short stories and one collection of poems, which have been translated into many languages, and she has received many awards. She is a lecturer in Arab feminism at Ben-Gurion University.



  • Kathleen Hellen

    Kathleen Hellen’s poems have been published in over 175 journals and anthologies, including American Letters and Commentary, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Evergreen, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Rattapallax, Sycamore Review, and Witness. Her collection Umberto’s Night, winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House, was published in 2012. In 2010 Finishing Line Press published her chapbook The Girl Who Loved Mothra.


  • Carrie Helms Tippen

    Carrie Helms Tippen is an assistant professor of English at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her book Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity (forthcoming August 2018 from University of Arkansas Press) examines the rhetorical value of proving authenticity in contemporary cookbooks.


  • PL Henderson

    PL Henderson is an art historian, writer, and curator of @womensart1. Her new book, Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels and Innovators in Textile Arts (Aurora Metro), was published in 2021.


  • David Henderson

    David Henderson teaches music and film at St. Lawrence University. His research is primarily on music and film in Kathmandu, Nepal. 



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    George Henson

    George Henson’s translation include Elena Poniatowska’s The Heart of the Artichoke, Sergio Pitol’s Trilogy of Memory, and, most recently, Alberto Chimal’s novella The Most Fragile Objects. He teaches Spanish translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.



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    Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio

    Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine poet/activist/scholar born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Heoli earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) with the completion of her dissertation entitled “(Re)membering ʻUpena of Intimacies: A Kanaka Maoli Moʻolelo beyond Queer Theory.” Currently, Heoli is an assistant professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Heoli is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor, and a published author. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford Fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford (BA), and New York University (MA).



  • W. J. Herbert

    W. J. Herbert’s work was awarded the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize and was selected by Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017. Her poetry, fiction, and reviews appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Hudson Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she was raised in Southern California where she earned a bachelor’s in studio art and a master’s in flute performance. She lives in Kingston, New York, and Portland, Maine.



  • Anna Hernandez

    Anna Hernandez has lived in almost every region of the US and studied multiple languages in her BA. She was an Assistant English Teacher while living in Japan for a year, putting her undergrad Japanese classes to good use. Currently, she is a WLT intern, working on her MA in library and information science from the University of Oklahoma.



  • Laura Hernandez

    Laura Hernandez lives and writes in Brooklyn. Working in the book-publishing industry has only made her book-hoarding tendencies worse. When she’s not reading, she’s gallivanting around the globe, eating tacos, or exploring New York City.



  • Miriam Esperanza Hernández Vázquez

    Miriam Esperanza Hernández Vázquez is from Masojá Shucjá, Tila, Chiapas, and has a degree in languages and cultures from the Intercultural University of Tabasco. She is a translator and digital activist of the Ch’ol language and has published two anthologies of traditional stories and two poetry collections.



  • Yuri Herrera

    Yuri Herrera was born in 1970 in Actopan, Mexico. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. Herrera earned his PhD at Berkeley and is currently teaching at the University of Tulane in New Orleans.


  • Taylor Hickney

    A WLT intern, Taylor Hickney has a degree in English writing from the University of Oklahoma and will begin pursuing an MFA in fiction at the New School in August. Commas are important, and she hates surprises. A big thanks to Amy Poehler for getting her this far in life. 



  • Chelsea T. Hicks

    Chelsea T. Hicks is a Wahzhazhe writer and citizen of the Osage Nation who holds an MA from UC Davis and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has been published in the Paris Review, Poetry, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her first book, A Calm & Normal Heart, was longlisted for the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize and received a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on ancestral land.


  • Alexandra M. Hill

    Alexandra Merley Hill is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Portland. Her scholarship focuses on contemporary German-language literature by women and includes the forthcoming Playing House: Motherhood, Intimacy, and Domestic Spaces in Julia Franck’s Fiction (Peter Lang).



  • Karlos K. Hill

    Karlos K. Hill is Regents Associate Professor in the Clara Luper Department of African & African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His books include Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory (2016), The Murder of Emmett Till (2020), and The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History (2021). He also serves on the steering committee of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission.



  • Brenda Hillman

    Brenda Hillman has published ten collections with Wesleyan University Press, including Extra Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013) and Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (2019). Hillman is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College of California.


  • Jessica Hilton

    Jessica Hilton is a WLT intern majoring in English writing and German at the University of Oklahoma. She enjoys reading, writing, and hiking in her spare time.