Tony Brinkley

has taught at the University of Maine since 1983. He is a graduate of Yale University (BA) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Ph.D.). He teaches British Romantic Poetry, Critical Theory, Fascist Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Translation Studies, and Film. His poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The New Review of Literature, Cerise Press, Drunken Boat, Otoliths, and Poetry Salzburg Review. He translates from Russian, German, and French. He is the author of Stalin’s Eyes (Puckerbrush Press) and is Senior Faculty Associate at the University’s Franco – American Centre.
Peggy Reid

was born in Radstock, England. She has worked on translations of a variety of texts from history and the history of art to medical papers, from film and play scripts to poetry and novels. In her work she has frequently collaborated with her husband or with Ljubica Arsovska. She has gained awards from the Macedonian Guild of Translators and the Struga Poetry Festival and is a Doctor of Ss Cyril and Methodius University.
Ainsely Morse

at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, he is a Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures: 19th and 20th century Russian and Soviet literature and history; history, culture, and literature of the Balkans, especially what was once Yugoslavia; contemporary Russian literature and culture.
Ljubica Arsovska

born in 1950 in Macedonia, she is editor – in – chief of the quarterly Kulturen zivot, the leading cultural magazine in Macedonia. She works as a professional translator. Her translations from English into Macedonian include books by Isaiah Berlin, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, and George Soros, among others. She has also translated the plays of Lope De Vega, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard, and Tenessee Williams. Her translations from Macedonian into English include works by Lidija Dimkovska, Dejan Dukovski, Tomislav Osmanli, Ilija Petrushevski, Sotir Golabovski, Dimitar Bashevski, Radovan Pavlovski, Gordana Mihailova Boshnakoska, Katica Kulafkova, and Liljana Dirjan, among others.