István Vörös is a writer, poet, professor of literature and creative writing, István Vörös has published numerous plays, collections of poetry and several short-story collections and books of essays. He is a noted translator from Czech, especially of poetry, and his own work has so far appeared in more than 20 languages. Ágnes Lehóczky has published six poetry collections in English, most recently Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation (Pamenar Press). She has also published three collections in Hungarian and co-translated The Song of the Cosmos by Attila József with Adam Piette. She teaches at the University of Sheffield, where she also lives. Adam Piette is a poet, professor at the University of Sheffield, and the co-editor of the poetry journal Blackbox Manifold . His poetry is published as the pamphlet nights as dreaming, the collection CCCLXV and, most recently, Lies Blurring Here (Broken Sleep Books). He lives in Sheffield.