MIRZA SAKIT is the pen name of Sakit Mirza Zakhidov. His arrest in 2006 in Azerbaijan caused an uproar in the international writers community and among numerous human rights organizations. One of the organizations that stood up for him was PEN AMERICA. He has never been translated into English. He is very popular among the Azerbaijani public both abroad and at home, his poetry readings generating thousands of views online in his native language. He received the Hellman/Hammett Award from Human Rights Watch in 2008.Issue 13 Summer 2018 HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released in […]
Contributor Bios for Issue 13 Summer 2018
Contributed By: Alice B. Fogel, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Carolyn Oliver, Deborah Flanagan, Epiphany Knedler, Eric Barnes, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio, Jane O. Wayne, Janette Schafer, Jerome Richard, Joshua Bernstein, Katherine Riegel, Kevin Rabas, Marc Frazier, Matt Whelihan, Michael Parker-Stainback, Michael T. Young, Mirza Sakit, Murad Jalilov, Nandini Dhar, Risa Shargel, Roy Bentley, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ortiz, Stanislav Stratiev, Stephen Gibson, Thomas Jacobs, Tom Larsen, Tori Grant Welhouse
