José A. Alcántara is a former construction worker, baker, commercial fisherman, math teacher, and studio photographer. He currently works in a bookstore in Aspen, Colorado. His poems have appeared or...
Sandra Alcosser was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. She earned her BA from Purdue University and an MFA from the University of Montana, where...
Poet, editor, and translator Daisy Aldan was born in New York City to actor Esther Edelheit Aldan and designer Louis Aldan. As a child actor, Daisy Aldan starred in the...
Richard Aldington was prominent in several literary capacities; most notably as a founding poet of the Imagist movement and as a novelist who conveyed the horror of World War I...
Novelist, poet, and children’s writer Dorothy Keeley was raised in Chicago, the first of four daughters of a newspaper editor. Educated at Smith College, she married World War I veteran...
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the poetry collection Fur Not Light (2019), which The Kenyon Review called an “example of radical humility … its poems enact a quiet but persistent empathy in the world of...
Charles Alexander is a poet, an artist, and a book publisher. His collections of poetry include Hopeful Buildings (1990), Pushing Water (1998), Four Ninety Eight to Seven (1997), Etudes: D&...
Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, New York, but grew up in Washington, DC, the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairman,...
Kwame Alexander is a poet, children's book author, playwright, producer, and the author of over a dozen books, including Booked (2016), The Crossover (2014), He Said, She Said (2014), Acoustic Rooster and...
Born in Allahabad, India, poet Meena Alexander was raised in Kerala and Sudan. She earned a BA at Khartoum University and a PhD at Nottingham University. Described as “undoubtedly one...
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 AlgarÃn 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.
