GYULA ILLYÉS (1902–1983) was one of Hungary's foremost cultural figures: poet, novelist, playwright, editor, translator, and literary and cultural historian. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Connecticut Poetry Review, PEN International, Poetry East, and Webster Review. He is the editor of Once upon a Time: Forty Hungarian Folk-Tales and the author of the novel People of the Puszta and What You Have Almost Forgotten: Selected Poems of Gyula Illyés.
BRUCE BERLIND (1926–2014) is the translator of Birds and Other Relations: Selected Poetry of Dezsö Tandori.