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George Economou has published 14 books of poetry and translation. After earning his PhD in medieval English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1967, he taught English and Creative writing at various universities for 41 years. He lives with his wife, poet and playwright Rochelle Owens in Philadelphia and Cape Cod.

LAURENCE SENELICK is the former director of The Proposition and Harpo, has translated George Feydeau, still has a drawer full of translations of Alphonse Allais, and teaches at Tufts.

NASEER ARURI (who supplied the literal translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry) is Visiting Professor at the University of Kuwait and Chairman of the Political Science Department, Southeastern Massachusetts University.

Edmund Keeley is the author of seven novels, nine books of nonfiction, and fourteen volumes of poetry in translation. He taught English and creative writing at Princeton University for forty years. His latest books are Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47 (1999) and On Translation: Reflections and Conversations (2000).

Olga Broumas (trans.) is a poet, translator, and bodywork therapist. Her most recent books are Perpetua and the translation of Elytis’s The Little Mariner, both from Copper Canyon Press. She teaches at Brandeis University and at Body Sound & Text.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including Elegy (Graywolf, 2007), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and translations of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher (Graywolf, 2012), and Purgatorio (Graywolf, 2021). She’s received a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She is a professor of English…

Scott Hightower’s third collection, Part of the Bargain, received the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. He is also the recipient of a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. A native of central Texas, he lives and works in New York City.

Robin D.S. Yates is a sinologist, teaching at Harvard. His translation of Wei Chuang’s poetry, with an extensive introduction, and notes, will be published in the near future.