Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf is Co–Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, which she joined in 2015. She previously served as Chief Program Officer for Literary Programming, overseeing the…
Gary Shteyngart is the author of the novels The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story, and Our Country Friends, and the memoir Little Failure.…
Neige Sinno is a French writer who lived for almost twenty years in Mexico. She studied and taught literature at various universities and has written essays, stories,…
Patricia Smith is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2025), winner of the 2025 National Book…
Sandra Smith is a translator that has has published over forty translations, including Suite Française and twelve other novels by Irène Némirovsky, But You Did Not Come…
Sam Sussman is the author of the debut novel Boy From the North Country, a three-time USA Today national bestseller and finalist for the National Jewish Book…
Abdellah Taïa is a writer born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1973. He has written many novels, including Salvation Army, which he also adapted into an award-winning film;…
Aatish Taseer is the author of the memoir Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands and the acclaimed novels The Way Things Were, a finalist…
Anderson Tepper is curator of international literature at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, where he hosts a monthly author series. He has been a guest curator of…
Madeleine Thien is a writer born in Vancouver and the daughter of Malaysian Chinese immigrants to Canada. She is the author of a story collection and four…
Elisabeth Thomas is the author of the award-nominated Catherine House. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where she still lives and writes. She graduated from Yale…
Judith Thurman is a writer, biographer, and critic. She has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1987, and, since 2000, as a staff writer specializing in…
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist and playwright, and the translator of more than thirty books from Chinese. He won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State…
Krisztina Tóth is one of Hungary’s most accomplished and widely respected writers and an outspoken public intellectual engaged with the struggle for women’s rights and the increasing…
Julie Trébault is the Executive Director of the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC). Prior to joining PEN America to create ARC, she served as director of public…
Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the West. He is the author of seven books of fiction that have been translated…
