Writer, artist, philosopher, and pianist Will Alexander was born in Los Angeles, California in 1948 and has remained a lifetime resident of the city. He earned a BA in English...
Sherman Alexie is a preeminent Native American poet, novelist, performer and filmmaker. He has garnered high praise for his poems and short stories of contemporary Native American reservation life, among...
Poet and writer Miguel Algarín was born in Puerto Rico and raised in a culturally-minded household, before moving to Manhattan in the early 1950s. He earned degrees in literature from...
Palestinian-Belgian poet and Al Jazeera journalist Fatena Alghorra is the author of four books of poetry, including A Very Troublesome Woman (2003).
Born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, Nelson Algren grew up in Chicago, a city he would make famous through his depictions of its poor, working, and criminal classes. Algren’s...
Abdul Ali is the author of Trouble Sleeping (2015), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize selected by poet Fanny Howe. His poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in Gargoyle,...
A Kashmiri American Muslim, Agha Shahid Ali is best known as a poet in the United States and identified himself as an American poet writing in English. Ali wrote nine...
Poet, editor, and prose writer Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian descent and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France,...
Mir Mahfuz Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His first collection, Midnight, Dhaka, was published in 2014 by Seren. He lives in London.
Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) and a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. She currently serves as editor for Palette Poetry.
Palestinian poet and short story writer Taha Muhammad Ali grew up in Saffuriya, Galilee. During the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, he moved with his family to Lebanon for a year;...
Kimberly Alidio is the author of why letter ellipses (selva oscura, 2020); : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, 2020); a cell of falls (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2019);...
Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest...
Samson Allal’s work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, Rip Rap, Oxford Magazine, Gulf Coast, and Girl Blood Info.
Austin Allen is the author of Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press, 2016), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. He has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati.
Dick Allen grew up near the Adirondack Mountains in Round Lake, New York. He earned a BA from Syracuse University and an MA from Brown University. His numerous poetry collections...
Heather Allen is the author of Leaving a Shadow (Copper Canyon Press, 1996). She lives in Connecticut.
William Hervey Allen, Jr., a US educator, poet, and author, is best remembered for his novel of the early United States, Anthony Adverse (1933). He also wrote volumes of poetry,...
Jessica Allen is an author who writes on culture, food and travel. She is the author of The Great American Read: The Book of Books (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018),...
