Hang Nga Nguyen is a renowned international lawyer who founded N2law, but she has always had a place in her heart for poetry. She began writing poetry from the young age of 10 and throughout her life, has repeatedly been published in multiple national newspapers. She shot up in popularity when her poem Hoa xương […]
Tania Montenegro haswritten poetry since childhood but only began to share readings and publications at University where she studied journalism in the 1990s. She co-founded Imagen (Impossible Grouping of Noxious Writers) and was a member of ANIDE (Association Nicaraguan Women Writers’ Association). As a feminist social communications writer and journalist she has worked in writing-editing […]
Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and comic book writer based in London. Her writing has been featured on BBC radio and television, and her full poetry collections are Bear (Bloodaxe, 2017) and Low (Bloodaxe, 2021). She edits the online poetry journal Perverse, and has run numerous workshops over the years. She has an Italian […]
Brown Girls Write is a writing group for all women of colour who are interested in nurturing their creative writing skills or want to give it a go. The programme was created by New Writing North’s Creative Associate Sharmin Islam, who drew on her own experiences as a South Asian woman pursuing a career in […]
Zar Mose is a writer, poet, and digital imaging artist born and raised in Batusangkar, West Sumatra, currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English literature at Diponegoro University, Semarang. He is the author of Galeri Hormonal (One Peach Media, 2021). His works consistently explore queerness in poz, Minangkabau, and Abrahamic religion landscapes. He is active […]
Yang Lian is a Swiss-Chinese poet who has published fourteen collections of poems, two collections of prose and one selection of essays in Chinese. Among 14 books of poems in English translation are Yi, Narrative Poem and Anniversary Snow, (2011), which won the inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize for translation.
Laura Wittner is an award-winning poet and translator from Argentina. Her books of poetry include El pasillo del tren (1996), Los cosacos (1998), Las últimas mudanzas (2001), La tomadora de café (2005), Lluvias (2009), Balbuceos en una misma dirección (2011), La altura (2016), Lugares donde una no está (2017) and Traducción de la ruta (2020), […]
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, […]
Lee Hyemi (b. 1988) is the author of three poetry collections and an essay collection. At eighteen, she was one of the youngest winners of the JoongAng Literary Newcomer’s Prize. Her second collection Unexpected Vanilla, translated into English by Soje, was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2022 Sarah Maguire […]
Ayça Türkoğlu is a literary translator working from German and Turkish. Her work has been shortlisted for the 2022 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and longlisted for the Warwick Women in Translation Prize. She lives in North London.