Tom Crosshill

2013 Resident

Europe
Northern Europe

Europe
Northern Europe
Latvia

Europe

Latvian

Tom CROSSHILL (fiction writer; Latvia) is the author of the short story collection Dubultnieki un citi stāsti (2011). His fiction has won the Writers of the Future contest, and was twice shortlisted for the Nebula Award, given out by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. His work has been featured in Finnish, Cuban, Chinese, Polish, English, and Latvian publications. He participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

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Feb 03 — Dec 05 Art & Write Night

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Marking May as the “Short Story Month,” Words Without Borders highlights some of its stellar past publications, the Dagestani-Russian novelist Alisa Ganieva’s bitterly comic “A Village Feast” among them.
Ilya Kaminsky’s informed and elegant preface to Kiss the Eyes of Peace, a new selection of Tomaž Šalamun’s poems from 1964-2014, is excerpted on today’s LitHub.
Raoul DeJong, in Jake Goldwasser’s translation, on the literary politics of Surinamese Netherlands, in the most recent issue of Words Without Borders.
The Spring 2024 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review features writing by Kwame Dawes and Géhanne-Amira Khalfallah.
Our congratulations to Fall Residency alumni Sebastian Barry and Mircea Cărtărescu, both of whom appear on this year's Dublin Literary Award shortlist.

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