BIO Paolo Staglianò was born 1953 in Olivadi, Italy. He lives in Crotone, where he also works as an MD and a surgeon. His books of poems are: Il Foulard Rosso [The Red Scarf]; Coriandoli di Pietra [Stone Confetti]; Proxima del Centauro [Proxima of Centaurus]; Màthema; Gioco Tondo; and Hypnerotomachia. He has been published widely…
BIO Suman Pokhrel (सुमन पोखरेल) born on September 21, 1967, is a multilingual Nepali poet, lyricist and translator as well as an artist. He is one of the finest Nepali poets today known for innovative style and grace. He has acclaimed collections of poems in Nepali entitled Soonya Mutuko Dhadkanbhitra (1999) (Within the Beats of Beat…
BIO Distinguished Hindi poet, writer and critic Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari was born in Devaria district of Uttar Pradesh, India, on June 20th. He is the president of “Kendriya Sahitya Academy”, one of the highest literary institutions of India. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari is also the editor of “Dastavez”. He has been a professor and the head…
BIO Ambreen Salahuddin is a known poet and writer from Pakistan residing in Lahore. Her two anthologies of Urdu Poetry, ‘Sar e Dasht e GumaaN’ (At the edge of the desert of thought) and ‘Sadyon jaise Pal’ (Moments like Centuries) were published in 2004 and 2014 respectively. Sar e Dasht e GumaaN was awarded PEN…
BIO Margaret Saine was born in Germany and lives in Southern California. She writes poetry, haiku, and short stories in five languages, also translating other poets in those languages. Her books are “Bodyscapes,” “Words of Art,” 5 haiku chapbooks, plus the mss. “Awkward Child” (in German, to be published), “The Five Senses,” “Lo efímero queda”…
BIO Charles Baudelaire was born on April 9th in 1821 in Paris, France and died there forty-six years later on the 31st of August in 1867. He is considered one of the most influential French poets in history and one of the greatest poets of the 19th century influencing an era of poetic symbolism. He was…
BIO Laura Mucelli Klemm was born in 1964 at Forbach in Lorraine, France, the child of Italian immigrants. In addition to French, she has been writing poems in her native Italian. After studying languages and literatures at the university of Nancy, she became a certified court translator and interpreter, and after further studies, a high…
BIO Dimitri V. Psurtsev, a Russian poet, was born in 1960 near Moscow and has spent all his life there. He has a PhD in Linguistics and has published papers on linguistic theory and translation. He also has translated fiction (John Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence, F.L. Baum, Dylan Thomas, David Malouf, A.S. Byatt). Dimitri divides his…
BIO Apryl Skies, an LA native, shares a birthday with Anaïs Nin, W.H. Auden and the emotive Nina Simone. She is an award-winning author of A Song Beneath Silence and Skye the Troll & Other Fairy Tales for Children. The latter, Skye the Troll has been adapted to clay animation winning the 2010 Gold Pixie…
BIO Rita Stanzione was born in the province of Salerno, Italy, and still lives there to date. After completing her studies in pedagogy, she has been teaching science. She discovered poetry relatively recently. Her poems are concerned with exploring inner worlds as well as external landscapes, and with nature as it shapes and…
BIO Naseer Ahmed Nasir, born on 1st April 1954 in a nondescript village Nagrian in Gujrat district of Punjab, Pakistan, is one of the most eminent, distinct, cultured and thought provoking poets from Pakistan. He is considered a trendsetter poet of modern Urdu poetry among his contemporaries. His poetry has been published in almost all…
BIO Václav Z. J. Pinkava was born in 1958 in Prague (Czechoslovakia, as was then). He emigrated in 1969 to Britain, growing up there and completing his education at Oxford. He followed this with a career in IT management, latterly as a professional translator, having moved back to the Czech Republic in 1992 with his…
