MARJORIE AGOSIN Born in Chile in 1955. Prominent human-rights activist and poet, short-story writer, and editor of numerous anthologies, now teaching at Wellesley College. Her books include: Circle of Madness: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (1991), and Dear Anna Frank (1992), among others.

WARREN D. ANDERSON Professor Emeritus, former Head of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Iowa, and at the University of Massachusetts. Poet, translator, scholar of Classical Greek. His Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece (Cornell University Press, 1995) is now in its second edition.

WYSTAN H. AUDEN (1907-1973) British poet who became an American citizen in 1939, received many prizes during his lifetime and became Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1956.

RON BANERJEE Born in India. Poet, translator and critic, he has served on various of the Five College Faculties and is currently teaching at Smith. His translation from the Czech, Far from You, was published in Canada in 1980, and in 1989 his translation from the Sanskrit, Poetry from Bengal, was published by UNESCO.

LAURENCE BOGOSLAW received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan in 1995. He currently lives in Minneapolis, where he is the co-founder and Coordinator of the Minnesota Translation Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Bogoslaw's prose translation has appeared previously in Metamorphoses (1994), and his scholarly work on verse translation has appeared in the volume "Slavic Verse" (Slavjanskij Stikh, Moscow, 1996).

JOSEPH BRODSKY (1930-1995) Russian-American poet, Nobel Prize Winner. Author of half a dozen volumes of poetry in Russian and English (with many self-translations), essayist, formerly Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke, and at the other Colleges in the Five Colleges Area. Served as a member of the Editorial Board of Metamorphoses before his death.

TRISTAN CABRAL Contemporary French poet. Since 1977 published seven volumes of poetry.

HÉLÈNE CANTARELLA Writer, critic, translator, teacher of languages, Emerita. For many years wrote reviews for the New York Times, The New Leader and other periodicals. Former Chief of the Foreign Language Section of the Motion Picture Bureau of the Office of War Information, then Coordinator of Films at Smith College. Currently living in Leeds, Massachusetts.

STEPHANIE DAVAL is currently writing a PhD dissertation on translation which will include U Tam'Si's short stories at Princeton.

JOHN S. DIXON Research Fellow and Professor at the Center of British Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, England.

ALCINA LUBICH DOMENCQ (1953- ) Guatemalan writer, author of the novel El espejo en el espejo: La noble sonrisa del petro and the collection of short stories Intoxicada.

CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Brazilian poet, born in 1902 in a small mining town, in the 1920's he actively participated in vanguard movements. The author of many books of poetry, he has received numerous awards and been widely translated. He died in 1987.

JOACHIM DU BELLAY (c. 1522-1560) French poet and critic, member of te Pleiade and friend of Ronsard. He was involved in furious polemics during his lifetime. At one time a canon of Notre Dame in Paris, where he is buried.

ALESSANDRO FERACE born in Bengasi (Lybia), lives in Florence, Italy with an American wife, two children, three dogs and a very old cat. He works as an editor in the publishing house: La Nuova Italia.

GAITO GAZDANOV (St. Petersburg, 1903 - Munich, 1971) One of the most accomplished prose writers of the first wave of Russia emigration frequently compared to Nabokov. In the last years he has become well known in his homeland, too, where his stories and novels appeared in over forty publications.

ANTHONY HECHT poet, born in New York City. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, he is the recipient of many awards and honors for his poetry. His first book of poems, A Summoning of Stones, was published in 1954.

ROBERT ELLIS HOSMER JR. is currently a lecturer in Comparative Literature at Smith College.

MELINDA KENNEDY Co-Editor of Metamorphoses. Born in 1924 in Northampton, MA, has lived a polyglot existence, which she has spent teaching, writing, translating and gardening. Her poems have appeared in various journals in the US.

ALEKSANDR KUSHNER Contemporary Russian poet, friend of Brodsky, member of the Editorial Board of the literary periodical Zvezda.

HENRY LYMAN His translations of the poetry of Aleksis Rannit have appeared in Poetry and New Directions and in two sections published by the Elizabeth Press. He is presently completing a larger, more comprehensive volume.

MARIA LÚCIA MILLÉO MARTINS Born and educated in the south of Brazil, she received her MA (1992) at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and is currently on a PhD program at the University of Mass. In 1992 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to do research on the work of Elizabeth Bishop.

EUGENIO MONTALE Italian poet, born 1896, like Ungaretti and Palazzeschi a leader in the renewal of Italian poetry. Though his production was slight, his poetry has won world-wide reputation, he was literary editor and music critic for the influential Corriere della Sera.

MINA NEDIALKOVA Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1974, she attended a Russian language elementary and junior high school. Has studied at the Sorbonne and is now at Smith College.

MIKHAIL PETROVICH (1935- ) Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in Russia. A friend of Brodsky for more than 30 years, a specialist on Brodsky's poetry. He has been conducting research at Princeton University.

ALDO PALAZZESCHI (1895-1974) Florentine wit, poet and novelist, he started out as a member of the Futurist Movement led by the poet Marinetti which embraced a fusion of sculpture, painting and literature with modern technology and the dynamics of the 20th century machine age. Withdrawing when the Futurists became linked to the rise of Fascism, he devoted himself to the novel, shuttling between Paris and Rome. A major novel, The Sisters Materassi, has been superbly translated by Angus Davidson in 1953.

ALEKSIS RANNIT Born in Kallaste, Estonia in 1914, he emigrated to the US in 1953, and served as Curator of the Slavic and East European Collections at Yale. His selected poems, Valimik, appeared shortly before his death in 1984.

ANATOLY SOBCHAK Presently the mayor of St. Petersburg, Russia. He was among the dissident intellectuals demanding major political changes in the country's political system, which ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviety Union.

THICAYA U TAM'SI (1931-1988) He is best known in the francophone world for his poetry, though he worked extensively in fiction. His short stories take as their inspiration ancient tribal narratives, which he infuses with the angst of a syncretic, modern world.

LASZLO TIKOS Editor-in-Chief of Metamorphoses. A native of Hungary, he teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Massachusetts. The author of many translations, he has recently completed a book on Gogol.

GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Italian poet, born in Alexandria, Egypt. He early became known as a mover in the avant-garde and in 1916, appeared in Aldo Palazzeschi's Lacerba. Despite his crepuscular leanings, he is known primarily as an ironist.

BRONISLAVA VOLKOVÁ Born in 1946 in Czechoslovakia, she left in 1974 for political reasons, arriving at last at Indiana University where she is currently a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She is the author of six books on Czech poetry.

RICHARD WILBUR One of our most celebrated local poets, winner of many American awards as well asl the Prix de Rome and Ordre des Palmes Academiques, he has served as Poet Laureate. He is perhaps best known for his translations of Molière and Racine. He divides his year now between Cummington, MA and Key West.