CONTRIBUTORS
April 1996

IOSIF BRODSKY (1940-1996) Russian-American poet, Nobel Prize Winner. Author of half a dozen volumes of poetry in Russian and English (with many self-translations). Essayist, Professor of Literature at the Five Colleges. Served as a member of the Editorial Board of Metamorphoses before his death.

IAN BROWNLIE received his MA in Russian from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His current whereabouts are unknown.

ALICIA CABIEDES-FINK is a native of Ecuador who had taught secondary level Spanish at Hilton Central High School, Hilton, NY for twenty-four years.

EVA CLAESON Writer/translator who, after twenty-six years in Sweden, came to the Five College area, helped start Metamorphoses and co-edited it for the first two years. She has published several books of translations, as well as material in various translation journals and is presently completingthe translation of a collection of contemporary Swedish women poets.

SARA BANEGA COVEÑA studied in the school of Philosophy, Letters and Education at the University of Cuenca and went on to earn a PhD in German philology in Munich. Currently she teaches Spanish literature at the University of Cuenca, where she also acts as Director of Literature. Editor of the literary review Solotextos, she has published widely and often in Ecuador. She is known especially for the invention of the micropoem, a haiku-like poem which marries surrealism with the deep image and takes of feminist issues or philosophical questions of time and being.

BARBRO DAHLIN Poet, novelist, psychiatrist who lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO (1863-1938) Foremost Italian poet of the first half of the twentieth century. As poetry and politics were inseparable for him, he was in the forefront of the Italia Irredente movement and the invasion of Friuli. In 1903, he published Alcyone, arguably his greatest collection of poems.

EUGENIO DE ANDRADE is one of Portugal's leading poets. Among other awards and honors, he was awarded the 1986 Premio da Critica Award by the International Association of Literary Critics. His works have been translated into twenty languages.

RAIMON DE CORNET (f. ca. 1324-40) Priest and sometime monk, can be considered the last real troubadour; wrote varied poems and a grammatical treatise in the Occitan language of what is now southwestern France.

CLAIRE DIENES Graduate of Smith College with an MA from Columbia and a maitrise from the Sorbonne, both in art history. This is her first attempt at translation.

GUNNAR EKELÖF (1907-1968) Long regarded as Sweden's major poet, he was elected early in life to the prestigious Swedish Academy. He has had a major influence on modern Swedish writing and is also well-known as a translator into Swedish, especially from the French.

DEAN FURBISH A member of the National Slavic Honor Society, he teaches biology and chemistry at Piedmont Community College in Roxboro, NC. His translations have appeared recently in Quarterly West, Nedge, Portland Review, and the Xavier Review.

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

MELINDA KENNEDY Co-Editor, Metamorphoses. Born 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 U.S. Her two daughters speak a smattering of Venetian.

RUTH WEDGWOOD KENNEDY (1896-1938) Distinguished art historian, professor at Smith College. With her husband, Clarence Kennedy, lived much of her life in Italy and France. Author of Alesso Baldovinetti, A Critical and Historical Study, as well as The Renaissance Painter's Garden.

ALBERTO DE LACERDA (b. 1928, Mozambique) Leading Portuguese poet; teacher and editor; he emigrated to Lisbon where he learned Portuguese, then lived in Britain and the U.S., teaching at Boston University among other institutions. Notable are 77 Poems (1955) and Elegias de Londra (1987).

ALEXIS LEVITIN Teaches at the State University of Plattsburg; his translations of Eugenio de Andrade's poems won him the first Pessoa translation prize from Columbia University. His Soulstorm was published by New Directions.

JAMES MACPHERSON (1736-96) Son of a Scottish farmer, he was educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities. In 1760 he published the first of his "Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland and Translated from the Gaelic or Erse Language." These were much admired throughout Europe but where soon pronounced by Gaelic scholars to be fraudulent. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

TED MAIER Teaching associate and doctoral candidate at Miami University, where he specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature. With Alicia Cabiedes-Fink he is collaborating on an anthology of contemporary women poets of Ecuador, with whom he has published translations in Puerto del sol, Collages and Bricolages, International Poetry Review, Mr. Cogito, and Asylum.

MARGARET MCCLUMPHA MARK Smith College '45, has lived abroad for much of her life and is married to a retired Foreign Service Officer from Hungary. For many years she worked as a simultaneous interpreter, primarily for the State Department, which, she says, is better than riding a bicycle. She has lived in Europe, Indonesia, and South America, and now resides in High Meadow, Connecticut.

MARIA LÚCIA MILLÉO MARTINS Born and educated in the south of Brazil. Currently on a PhD Program at the University of Massachusetts. In 1992, she was awarded a Fullbright scholarship to do research on Elizabeth Bishop's special collections in Vassar and Harvard. A second Fullbright launched her doctoral program and at present, she is participating as translator in a project of an Anthology of Contemporary American Poets in Brazil to be published by UFSC (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) Press this year.

BEVERLY MATHERNE Has two bilingual chapbooks: Je me souviens de la Louisiane (March Street Press) and Images cadiennes (Ridgewood Press). Widely published in journals, including Kansas Quarterly, Squaw Review, and Verse, she is on the writing faculty of Northern Michigan University.

OSIP MANDELSTAM (1891-1938) One of the great Acmeist poets in Russian literature (next to A. Akhmatova, and N. Gumilev). Arrested in 1934 and died in a Soviet labor camp.

W.S. MERWIN Born in New York City in 1927, he now lives in Hawaii, where he is active in environmental causes. One of our chief American poets, he has been the recipient of innumerable prizes for poems, prose, and translations, including the coveted Bollingen Prize.

OSSIAN (Also Oisin) A legendary Gaelic warrior and bard said to have lived in the third century, whose tale of Finn (Fingal) provided the basis for James MacPherson's spurious transciprtions. What historical facts they embody are Irish, though Scotland, too, lays claim to them.

EMINE SEVGI ÖZDAMAR First came to Germany from Turkey in 1965. She studied acting in Berlin and Istanbul, and produced her own play, Karagöz in Alamania, in Frankfurt in 1987. Currently reading in Düsseldorf.

ANTONIO PORCHIA (1886-1968) Born in Italy, Porchia lived from 1911 in Buenos Aires, writing in Spanish and working as a potter or carpenter. Voces, from which these aphorisms were taken, appeared in several editions since 1943.

LYNN PRINCE Graduate student in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts. Co-Editor of Metamorphoses.

SALVATORE QUASIMODO (1901-1968) Italian poet and Nobel laureate. Born in Sicily, he lived most of his life in Rome and Milan where he was known as an anti-fascist critic, relying on his poetry to make his position know.

IRINA RATMIROVA has published three collections of poetry, of which the most recent appeared in 1995 in Moscow. Her earlier collections are entitled Religion of the Heart and The Winged Hour.

NATHANIEL B. SMITH has taught Provençal, Catalan, French, and Italian languages and literatures at Smith College, the University of Georgia, and Boston University. Now an administrator at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He has published many translations and poems in various journals, as well as books and articles on medieval and other topics.

BRITA STENDAHL Swedish author, recipient of grants for her book The Force of Tradition: A Case Study of Women Priests in Sweden (1985), much of the work for which she did at Radcliffe in Massachusetts.

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 from the Russian, he has recently completed a book on Gogol.

LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910) Foremost Russian writer of the nineteenth century, author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and many other works, including essays, and theoretical works on art, religion, and politics.

HELEN WADDELL is an influential scholar in shaping twentieth century appreciaiton of Medieval Latin literature, she is best known for her Medieval Latin Lyrics as well as for The Wandering Scholars (1927).

INGA-BRITT WIK Her main concern has been with the lyric; beginning with Profil in 1952, she has produced eleven volumes, the most recent of them Färdas (1990). IN 1993, a rich selection from her poems was published as Ett hav, ett vatten (A Sea, A Water).

RICHARD WILBUR One of our more celebrated local poets, winner of many American awards as well as the Prix de Rome and Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 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.