Dr Rati Saxena - is an eminent Hindi poet, translator and Sanskrit scholar. She has authored three collections of poems in Hindi (Maya mahathagini, ajanmi kavita ki kokh se, sapane dekhata samudra) and one each in English and Malayalam (in translation). Besides, she has written several research articles on Vedic literature and Indology and published critical studies. Her poems are translated in different languages like Malayalam, Punjabi, KonkaNi and Tamil etc. Rati Saxena’ poetry represented in various journals of other part of world like –Verasal ( Amsterdam, Netherlands and printed in Prague), Edgar literary Magazine (Texas) and gumball poetry etc. Thus establishing a sound reputation as an academic critic.
Gábor G. Gyukics (b. 1958) Hungarian-American poet and literary translator. He is writing both in English and in Hungarian. He is the author of four (4) books of poetry including Last Smile (1999 NY), one (1) art catalogue based on his poems, one (1) poetry CD called Sand Snail (2000 NY), four books of translations: Half-Naked Muse contemporary American Poetry in Hungarian (2000 Budapest), Swimming in the Ground contemporary Hungarian Poetry in English (2002 Neshui, St. Louis), Gypsy Drill the poetry of Attila Balogh in English (2006 Neshui, St. Louis) and Transparent Lion the poetry of Attila Jozsef (2006 Green Integer LA). His co-translator to English is Michael Castro. He has established the first and still active Open Reading series in Hungary.
Dee Shapiro is a painter and writer living in New York and Connecticut. Her poetry has been published in Chiron Review, Small Pond Magazine, BlueLine, Black Bear, Aught, Adirondack Review, Confrontations and
elsewhere.
Her essays have appeared in The Bark, Heresies magazine and Frigate. She is art and contributing editor of Frigatezine.com. Her paintings are in
the collection of the S.R. Guggenheim Museum, Everson Museum, Albright Knoz Gallery, as well as other museums, corporate and private collections.
MICHAEL SALCMAN was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1946 and came to the United States in 1949. He attended the Combined Program in Liberal Arts and Medical Education at Boston University, receiving both the B.A. and M.D. in 1969. He trained in neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health and in neurological surgery at Columbia University. He served as chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland from 1984 through 1991. His early medical career was profiled by Jon Franklin and Alan Doelp in their book, Not Quite A Miracle (Doubleday, 1983).