Hitched: Writing in Political Oppression

SHOLEH WOLPE is the author of Rooftops of Tehran, The Scar Saloon, and Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad for which she was awarded the Lois Roth Translation Prize in 2010. 

ALICIA PARTNOY is the author of The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival (Cleis Press). Her poetry collection Revenge of the Apple has just returned as Venganza de la Manzana to Argentina, eighteen years after its publication in the United States.

MELINDA PALACIO’s poetry chapbook, Folsom Lockdown, won Kulupi Press’ Sense of Place’ 2009 competition. Her first novel, Ocotillo Dreams, will be published by Arizona State University’s Bilingual Press in Fall 2010.

RAMON GARCIA (b. Colima city, Mexico, June 12, 1967) has published poetry in a variety of journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry 1996, Ambit, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S.-Hispanic Literature (1998), Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Los Angeles Review, and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas.

BILAL SHAW was born and raised in Kashmir, India. He recently completed a Ph.D. in Quantum Information Science from the University of Southern California. He currently resides in Los Angeles and is working with Tony Barnstone on a book of translations of Ghalib's famous Urdu Ghazals. 

More of their bios at Beyond Baroque.