From the Diary of a Harlequin

Liliana Ursu is a poet, prose writer, and translator with eighteen books published in Romania. Her work has been translated into many languages, including, in English, Goldsmith Market (Zephyr Press, 2003), Lightwall (Zephyr Press, forthcoming in June 2009), and two other books. She lives in Bucharest, teaching courses in poetry and creative writing, producing occasional radio programs for România culturala, and writing. She has received two Fulbright grants and taught creative writing at the University of Louisville and at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. (updated 4/2009)

Ursu’s Angel Riding a Best (translated by Bruce Weigl and the author) and The Sky Behind the Forest (translated by Adam J. Sorkin, Tess Gallagher, and the author) were reviewed in AGNI 49 by Valerie Duff.

Liliana Ursu is a poet, prose writer, and translator with eighteen books published in Romania. Her work has been translated into many languages, including, in English, Goldsmith Market (Zephyr Press, 2003), Lightwall (Zephyr Press, forthcoming in June 2009), and two other books. She lives in Bucharest, teaching courses in poetry and creative writing, producing occasional radio programs for România culturala, and writing. She has received two Fulbright grants and taught creative writing at the University of Louisville and at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. (updated 4/2009)

Ursu’s Angel Riding a Best (translated by Bruce Weigl and the author) and The Sky Behind the Forest (translated by Adam J. Sorkin, Tess Gallagher, and the author) were reviewed in AGNI 49 by Valerie Duff.

Tess Gallagher has published eleven collections of poems, three collections of short stories, two volumes of essays, and several screenplays, on which she collaborated with her late husband, Raymond Carver. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award. (updated 7/2010)

Gallagher’s Moon Crossing Bride was reviewed in AGNI 38 by Calvin Bedient.

In AGNI 49, Valerie Duff reviewed Liliana Ursu‘s The Sky Behind the Forest, which was translated by Gallagher, along with Adam J. Sorkin and the author.

Valerie Duff is the author of the collection To The New World (Salmon Poetry, 2010), shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize (Queen’s University, Belfast). Her poems have appeared in The Common, Solstice, AGNI, The Antioch Review, Verse, The Prague Revue, and elsewhere and her reviews in Harvard Review and The Boston Book Review. Former managing editor of AGNI and poetry editor of Salamander, she has received an individual artist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was the 2015 Poetry Fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston. (updated 4/2016)