Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of a chapbook Between This Quivering (Coreopsis Press Poetry Award). Her poetry has been published in many journals including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poetry East, Asheville Poetry Review and Louisville Review. A chapbook of translations (co-translated with Ana Jelnikar) of Kosovel’s poetry Bitter Without Meaning has appeared in Mid-American Review in 2009. An earlier chapbook of translations Faces of Man (Poetry Miscellany Translation Series) appeared in 1991. Other translations have appeared in The Literary Review, Natural Bridge, Hunger Mountain, Nimrod and Poetry International. Carlson participated in the Golden Boat International Poetry Translation workshop in Slovenia in 2005-6. She lives in Carver, MA and teaches at Thayer Academy.

Ana Jelnikar is a Slovene translator now completing her PhD at the University of London. Her focus is on exploring the links between Rabindranath Tagore and Srečko Kosovel. Her most recent translations of poetry collections include Iztok Geister's Hymn to the Bush Tree and Taja Kramberger's Mobilizations. Translations have appeared in Verse, Southern Humanities Review, Third Coast, and The American Poetry Review. She is the translator of the first Slovenian edition of C. G. Jung's Man and His Symbols, as well as six collections of contemporary Slovenian poetry, published in both America and Slovenia. Her most recent publication is an anthology of Six Slovenian Poets (Arc Publications 2006), which she co-translated with Stephen Watts and Kelly Lenox Allan. Jelnikar is one of the founders and organizers of the annual Golden Boat International Poetry Translation Workshop in Slovenia. Scholarly work is forthcoming in North America.