![]() Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Granta, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. She focuses on contemporary Latin American authors, and her translations include works by Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enriquez, Lina Meruane, Diego Zuñiga, and Carlos Fonseca. Megan McDowell is a Spanish language literary translator. Her debut collection SWOLE (Futurepoem, 2018) was the June 2018 poetry best seller on Small Press Distribution and was named a Must-Read Race and Culture Book of the Summer by Colorlines magazine. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives in New Orleans. Jerika Marchan was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the American South. A graduate of Indiana University’s MFA program, she lives in New Orleans. Tia Clark‘s fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing,Įpiphany, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. She has received support and fellowships from the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lambda Literary Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Jos Charles has an MFA from the University of Arizona. She is a PhD student at UC Irvine and currently resides in Long Beach, CA. Charles has poetry published with POETRY, Poem-a-Day, PEN, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. In 2016 she received the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship through the Poetry Foundation. J os Charles is a trans poet, translator, editor, and author of feeld, a National Book Award long-listed finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions) and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press). We were proud to host an impressive lineup of writers including Jos Charles, Tia Clark, Jerika Marchan, Megan McDowell, Carrie Messenger, Thirii Myint, Dennis James Sweeney, Laura Theobald and Jeannie Vanasco. We would like to extend our thanks to the other members of the Delta Mouth team including Zita Hüsing, Jason Buch and Rebekah Frumkin! Stephan Viau supported the festival as the assistant director. In its tenth year, Delta Mouth was directed by Cassie Grillon. ![]() To contact us, email deltamouthfestival gmail com. Read on to learn more about the rich history of our fast-growing festival. Our readers have been finalists for the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize winners, Guggenheim fellows, and recipients of the prestigious Whiting Award. In previous years, we’ve hosted such literary standouts as Carmen Maria Machado, Ben Marcus, Lily Hoang, Douglas Kearney, Jami Attenberg, and Wayne Koestenbaum.
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