Poet, prose writer, translator, has published seventeen books in Romania & three have been translated into English, including Zephyr's book Goldsmith Market. Ursu produces radio progams for Romania culturala in Bucharest and has received two Fulbright grants to teach at Penn State. She has also taught creative writing at the University of Louisville, KY. Sean Cotter has translated four books of Romanian poetry, including Zephyr's volume of Liliana Ursu's poetry Goldsmith Market. He worked in Romania from 1994-1996 as a Peace Corps volunteer, and from 2001 to 2002 on a Fulbright-Hays research grant.
Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. Her poems, reviews, translations, and articles have appeared in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Poetry International, Arts & Letters, Pleiades, and Soundings. She teaches at Monmouth University and lives in Ocean, New Jersey.