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Howard Norman has published three collections of storytelling from the Far North: The Wishing Bone Cycle, winner of the Harold Morton Landon Prize in Translation from the Academy of American Poets; Where the Chill Came From, and Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples, part of the Pantheon Folklore and Fairy Tale Library….
Ottó Orbán, born in 1936, is the author of seven volumes of poetry. His translations into the Hungarian language include a volume of selected poems and plays by Robert Lowell, and another by American, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish poets, entitled Golden Fleece. Orbán, who also writes nursery rhymes, was a fellow at the…
Miodrag Pavlorić, born in 1928, is often considered one of the three leading contemporary Yugoslavian poets. The translators worked from the French translation by Robert Marteau, La Voix sous la pierre (Gallimard), with many corrections and suggestions from Charles Simic, to whom they are deeply grateful.
Heather McHugh was born to Canadian parents in San Diego, California, in 1948. She was raised in Virginia and educated at Harvard University. Most recently, McHugh published Eyeshot (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), a book of new poems. Her previous books of poetry include The Father of the Predicaments, Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993 (Wesleyan University Press, 1994), which won both…
Askold Melnyczuk recently published his fourth novel, Smedley’s Secret Guide to World Literature (PFP, 2016). His stories, poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, APR, Poetry, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. He’s received numerous awards for his fiction, as well as for his editorial work as founding editor of…
Orlando Ricardo Menes was born in Lima, Perú, to Cuban parents but has lived most of his life in the U.S. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Florida. In 1998 he received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 2000 he has taught…
Phil Metres’s translations and poems have appeared in Artful Dodge, Glas, Modern Poetry in Translation, New Laurel Review, Poetry New York, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Willow Springs. A graduate student in English at Indiana University, he is finishing Celebration: Selected Poems by Sergey Gandlevsky.
MALENA MÖRLING was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965, and moved to the U.S. when she was fifteen. She attended Hampshire College and New York University, and now lives in Northport, N.Y. Besides working in various offices, libraries, restaurants, and magic shows, she has published translations of Philip Levine’s poems in the Swedish journal Artes, and…
LISEL MUELLER’S The Need To Hold Still (Louisiana State U.) won last year’s American Book Award for poetry. Her translation of The Selected Later Poems of Marie Luise Kashnitz is available from Princeton.
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