is the author of two books of poetry: In the Night Speaking (Winner of the Sacramento Poetry Center Prize) and Suspension (New American Press Chapbook Prize), and his poetry has appeared in a wide variety of journals from Poetry to Main Street Rag. His most recent book is a collection of short fiction, The Estate Sale. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.

holds a degree in writing and languages from Sarah Lawrence College. His translations of Ron Winkler’s work have appeared in numerous literary journals, especially those ending in the word “Review” (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and Massachusetts). A technical translator and poet himself, he received a 2012 Literary Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and moved to Berlin to collaborate with Winkler in person in translating his second collection, Fragmented Waters.

grew up in rural Kansas, completed a bachelor’s in German studies at a small liberal arts college there, studied German literature and theology in Marburg, Germany, and started a doctoral project on Schleiermacher in Halle before completing a master’s in translation studies in Leipzig. He now lives and works in Leipzig as a freelance translator and an adjunct instructor at the University of Leipzig.

was born in Großenhain (GDR) in 1979 and now lives in Leipzig and Berlin. She started publishing her poetry by pasting poems onto construction fences and spreading them on flyers and free postcards. She completed her magister in religious studies and modern Indology and then received her diploma from the German creative writing program at Leipzig. She has published three volumes of poetry; for her second, Streumen, she was awarded the Leonce and Lena Prize.