Barbara Goldberg
Sharon Dolin
Katerina Stoykova
Barbara Goldberg
Barbara Goldberg has authored six prize-winning books of poetry including The Royal Baker’s Daughter, winner of the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize. Her most recent book is Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems (The Word Works 2022). Transformation: The Poetry of Translation, was the recipient of the Valentin Krustev Translation Award. She and renowned Israeli poet Moshe Dor edited numerous anthologies of contemporary Israeli poetry including After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace. Goldberg received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University’s Translation Center. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review and elsewhere. She is Series Editor for the International Editions at The Word Works.
Sharon Dolin
Sharon Dolin is the author of six books of poetry, a prose memoir entitled Hitchcock Blonde, and two books of translation, most recently, Saturnalia’s prize-winning book, Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga (translated from the Catalan), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. A 2021 NEA recipient, her seventh book, Imperfect Present, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press this October. She is Director of Writing About art in Barcelona and lives in New York City where she is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press.
Katerina Stoykova
Katerina Stoykova is the author of several award-winning poetry books in English and Bulgarian, as well as the Senior Editor of Accents Publishing, where she has selected, edited, and published over 80 poetry collections. Her latest book, Second Skin (ICU, 2018, Bulgarian) received the Vanya Konstantinova biannual national poetry award, as well as a grant from the European Commission's program Creative Europe for translation and publication in English. Katerina acted in the lead roles for the independent feature films Proud Citizen and Fort Maria, both directed by Thom Southerland. Her poems have been translated into German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Bangla, Farsi, and a volume of her selected poems, translated into Arabic by acclaimed poet Khairi Hamdan, is forthcoming in Arabic from Dar Al Biruni press.