Gérard de Nerval was an influential 19th century French poet, playwright and translator. He belonged to the French Romantic school of poets and was instrumental in getting French readers to appreciate similar work by German writers such as Goethe, Schiller and Klopstock through his translations of their poetry. His later material delved into such areas as madness and the difference between fiction and ...
Cathy Park Hong is a poet, essayist and college lecturer, specialising in creative writing. She uses the technique of mixed language in some of her work where different languages are fused to create meaningful text, usually known as “code-switching”. She was born on the 7th August 1976 in Los Angeles, the daughter of Korean parents. She grew up in Ohio, graduating from the ...
Paisley Rekdal is an American award winning poet and university lecturer. Little is known of her early life but she was born some time during the late 20th century in Seattle, Washington State and she was raised by her Chinese-American mother and Norwegian father. She was a bright girl at school and went on to receive a good university education, beginning with a ...
Amy King is a contemporary American poet, born sometime during the late 20th century, who has published at least four collections of poetry during the period 2005-2011. She is also a college lecturer, currently teaching English at Nassau Community College. Her time is split between three locations - Baltimore, Phoenicia, and Long Island. She is a private person and very little is known ...
Carmen Giménez Smith is an American poet and lyric essay writer. She has filled posts as a university lecturer on the subject of creative writing along with editorial positions. She also acts a publisher of a company called Noemi Press. She was born on the 20th February 1971 in New York City but her parents moved the family to the bay area of ...
