Iqbal Al-Qazwini is an Iraqi exile with a human rights background, and has lived in Berlin since 1978.
Read MoreCathy Applegate grew up in Melbourne, Australia. After earning a medical degree, she established a general practice in Darwin, where she now lives with her husband and three children. Her books for young readers include Where's Itchy? and Rain Dance. Applegate also composes music and is currently working on a piece for guitar quartet, cello, and piano.
Read MoreLalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985)is a Malayalam writer from Kerala, India.
Read MoreMaría Fernanda Ampuero is a writer and journalist, born in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Read MoreShahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic.
Read MoreKevin Allred is a writer and educator.
Read MoreBeverly Allen is a professor of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Stanford University. She is the editor of Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics of Heresy and the author of Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice.
Read MoreDarina Al-Joundi was born in Lebanon in 1968 to a Shiite Lebanese mother and a secular Syrian father. She began her acting career at age eight with Lebanese television.
Read MoreMeena Alexander, an award-winning poet and scholar, teaches in the PhD program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the MFA program at Hunter College.
Read MoreAnn Aldrich is one of many pseudonyms for the prolific author Marijane Meaker, who is better known under the names M. E. Kerr and Mary James.
Read MoreFlavia Alaya was the founding director of the School of Intercultural Studies at Ramapo College in New Jersey.
Read MoreKemi Alabi is a poet, teaching artist, and cultural strategy director of Forward Together.
Read MoreJamika Ajalon is a prolific author and interdisciplinary artist who works with different mediums.
Read MoreRachel Aimee cofounded $pread magazine in 2004.
Read MoreAma Ata Aidoo is one of Ghana's most distinguished writers.
Read MoreEsi Sutherland Addy (Ph.D, Hon, Hon FCP) is senior research fellow, head of the Language, Literature, and Drama Section, Institute of African Studies. She is associate director of the African Humanities Institute Program at the University of Ghana.
Read MoreNance Ackerman, documentary art photographer, has been photographing women for ten years. Ackerman’s photographs can be seen on the front cover of TIME, Macleans, and Canadian Geographic magazines.
Read MoreCamille Acker’s writing has appeared in Hazlitt and VICE, among others.
Read MoreMimi Abramovitz is a professor of social policy at the Hunter College School of Social Work and at the Social Welfare Doctoral Program, City University of New York. She has written extensively on the issues of women, poverty and social policy, including Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the U.S.
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