Emilian Galaicu-P¿un was born in 1964 in Unchite¿ti, Republic of Moldova. His books of poetry include Lumina proprie (1986), Abece-Dor (1989), Levitäii deasupra h¿ului (1991), Cel b¿tut îl duce pe cel neb¿tut (1994), Yin Time (1999), Gestuar (2002), Arme gr¿itoare (2009), and a career retrospective, A¿Z.best (2012). His prose volumes are Gesturi. Trilogia nimicului (1996), Poezia de dup¿ poezie. Ultimul deceniu (1999), and ¿esut viu: 10 x 10 (2011). His poetry, in Adam J. Sorkin¿s collaborative translations, appears in the anthologies Singular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia (2003), A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe (2004), New European Poets (2008), and Born in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry (2006); and in the literary journals 3:am, Absinthe: New European Writing, Connotation Press, Orient Express, Poezia, Turbulence, and Poem (forthcoming). Galaicu-P¿un is editor-in-chief at Cartier Publishing House, Chi¿in¿u, and has won numerous awards in Romania and Moldova. In 2014, the president of Moldova awarded him the Order of Cultural Merit in the Grade of Office. In 2015, he was one of the National Prize laureates of Moldova.

Adam J. Sorkin has published more than fifty books of translation. His work has won the 2005 Poetry Society Prize for European Poetry Translation as well as the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, the Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, the Ioan Flora Prize for Poetry Translation, and the Poesis Translation Prize, among others. His most recent publications include A Sharp Double-Edged Luxury Object by Rodica Draghincescu (¿ervená Barva, 2014), translated with Antuza Genescu; Gold and Ivy/Aur ¿i ieder¿ by George Vulturescu (Eikon, 2014), translated with Olimpia Iacob; The Starry Womb by Mihail G¿l¿¿anu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Petru Iamandi and the author; and The Book of Anger by Marta Petreu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Christina Zarifopol-Illias and Liviu Bleoca. His translation of Floarea ¿üuianüs Syllables of Flesh is forthcoming from Plamen Press.