HLF Speakers

RAVI SHANKAR Pushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar is the author and editor of over fifteen books and chapbooks

K Satchidanandan (b.1946) is a pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual critic, playwright, editor, fiction writer, translator and

Jami Proctor Xu is an award-winning bilingual poet and translator who writes in Chinese and English. Her poems and translations have been

Distinguished American poet Ruth Danon’s fourth collection of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in 2023.