Radu Vancu is a poet, scholar, and translator who has written nine volumes of poetry, a novel, two children's novellas, a collection of essays, and scholarly publications. He has received numerous awards for his literary works, and also editsTransilvania magazine and Poesis Internațional. He has translated works by Walt Whitman, John Berryman, and Ezra Pound into Romanian, and is the president of Sibiu's international poetry festival. He also served as the president of PEN Romania.


Sean Cotter is the translator of many works of Romanian literature, and Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid (Deep Vellum, 2022) was awarded the Dublin Literary Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Romanian Cultural Institute prize for best translation of the year. Other books have won or been short-listed for numerous other awards. Zephyr Press published Cotter's translations of two volumes by Romanian poet Liliana Ursu, Lightwall (2009) and Goldsmith Market (2003).


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