Mariana Marin (1956-2003), a journalist and poet, published six books of poetry in Romania. Silenced during much of the 1980s by the Ceausescu dictatorship for the uncompromising dissidence that is evident in these poems, she is now regarded in Romania as one of the major voices of the last decades of the twentieth century.

Adam J. Sorkin’s recent volumes of translation include The Bridge by Marin Sorescu (Bloodaxe Books), Diary of a Clone by Saviana Stänescu (Spuyten Duyvil/Meeting Eyes Bindery), Chaosmos by Magda Cârneci (White Pine Press), and 41 by Ioana Ieronim (Bucharest). Sorkin has won the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, and an NEA Translation Fellowship. Sorkin is Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State Delaware County, and has translated 30 books.