István was born in Budapest in 1972. At present he is Master of Hungarian in Toldy Ferenc Grammar School and teaches English literature in the Comperative Department of G. Károli Protestant University. He has published four volumes of poetry and in 1999 he was awarded the Móricz Zsigmond Literary Grant. He has translated the work of Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, George Szirtes, W. B. Yeats, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath into Hungarian.

András was born in Budapest in 1966 where he still lives. After working as a language teacher, an editor in publishing and living in Mexico for a year he is now a free-lance poet and translator. He translates poetry from English, French and Spanish. He has published one book of poetry, That, Which Has Two Names and is currently finishing off his second, Strange Love. In 1999 he received a Graves Award.

Monika was born in 1967 and has a PhD in Modern English Literature. She works as a teacher of English and Hungarian and has extensive translation experience, including poetry by Simon Armitage, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney, radio plays, fiction and non-fiction. She has published three volumes of poetry in Hungary and is published in the UK in the Winter 03 issue of Poetry Wales.

Péter was born in 1948 and is a freelance writer and translator. He has published three volumes of poetry (Sitting Face to Face, The Shipmen Arrive and Self-face) and several volumes of translations (Kierkegaard, Martin Buber, Kafka, R Safranski). He is the director of the Hungarian Translators House [in Balaton, where the UK poets spent part of their Hungarian tour].

Anna was born in Transylvania in 1972 and lives in Budapest. She has published three volumes of poetry and received several literary prizes. She works as a freelance writer and translator and is published in the UK in the Spring 02 issue of Poetry Wales.

Born in 1967 Krisztina is one of the most highly acclaimed young Hungarian poets. Her books include Coat-flowing in Autumn, The Thread of Conversation and Snowdust and she has won many literary awards including the Graves Prize, the Dery Tibor Prize and the Jozsef Attila Prize. She lives in Budpaest, where apart from writing and translating poetry she designs and produces stained glass windows.

Polly’s first collection Kiss was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and she was also one of the National Poetry Day poets of 2001, selected by the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. For two years between 1990 and 1992 she taught English in Pecs, Hungary, at Janus Pannonius University. Currently she is poet in residence for the Southern Daily Echo in Hampshire and editor of the south-east's literature website www.pirandello.org.uk.

Antony Dunn was born in London in 1973, and won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 while reading English at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He has published two collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators and Flying Fish. He received a Society of Authors’ Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He also writes for film and the stage, and lives in York, where he works as Marketing Manager for Riding Lights Theatre Company at Friargate Theatre. Antony has taught in dozens of colleges, secondary and primary schools across the UK, and run public poetry workshops for writers of all abilities. He is a tutor for The Poetry School.

Matthew was born in 1971 in Norwich, and won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1999. His first collection of poems, Ground Water is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He is co-editor (with Paul Keegan) of 101 Poems Against War and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (with W. N. Herbert), and works as an editor at Faber and Faber.

Clare was born in 1978. She published her first collection, The Heavy Petting Zoo in 1998, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2000 and her second collection, Bedtime, was published in 2002.

Owen was born in 1974 in Suva Fiji. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1999 and won the Vogue Talent Contest for Young Writers. His first collection of poems, The Blue Book, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and his first novel, The Dust Diaries, was published early in 2004.