Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor: is a professor of English and currently serves as Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is the author of six collections of poetry, two novels, and several books of non–fiction, mostly relating to Kentucky history. He has won two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife Lizz own Poor Richard’s Books in Frankfort, Kentucky.
James Sutherland-Smith
James Sutherland-Smith: was born in Scotland but lives in Slovakia. He has published seven collections of his own poetry, the most recent being, The River and the Black Cat published by Shearsman books in 2018. He also translates poetry from Slovak and Serbian for which he has received the Slovak Hviezdoslav Prize and the Serbian Zlatko Krasni Prize. His most recent is from the poetry of Mila Haugová, Eternal Traffic, published in Britain by Arc Publications. His next collection of poetry, Small Scale Observations will be published later this year by Shearsman Books.
Maria Surrichio
Maria Surrichio: is originally from the U.K. and now lives in Boulder, Colorado. A life–long lover of poetry, she turned to writing in 2020 after a long marketing career. Her work has been published, and is forthcoming, in the 1–70 Review, Delta Poetry Review, Lily Poetry Review and The Dillydoun Review. She has a B.A. in Modem Languages from Cambridge University and is currently studying at the Hudson Valley Writers Center.
Ivan Štrpka
Ivan Štrpka: born in 1944, he grew up in southern Slovakia. In 1963 –1969 he studied Slovak and Spanish at Comenius University in Bratislava. He entered literature as a member of Osamelí be ci (The Lonely Runners). After 1968 they were not allowed to publish their work and he made a living as a dramaturge and writing song lyrics. By the mid–eighties, he became the editor in chief of the magazine Mladé Rozlety and then the editor in chief of the newly established literary weekly, Literárny týd denník. From 1990 to 1993, he was the editor in chief of Kultúrny ivot and in 1999 he became the editor in chief of the literary magazine Romboid until 2010.