Arnold de Vos (b. 1937) is a Dutch writer who has been living in Italy since 1968 and today writes in Italian. His
first publication in the Netherlands was Uit een volslagen duisternis. Gedichten voor Gerrit Achterberg, 1967, and he
has also published translations from Italian - Il Sempione strizza l'occhio al Frejus by Elio Vittorini – as
well as archeolgical guides with Mariette de Vos.
His Italian collections have been awarded a number of prizes and include Poesie del deficit, 1980, Il portico, 1985 and Responso, 1990. His texts have been included in anthologies Omaggio a Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 2005, Ai confini del verso. Poesia della migrazione in italiano, edited by Mia Lecomte, 2006) and in A New Map: The Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy, edited by Mia Lecomte e Luigi Bonaffini, 2007). His most recent collections Merore o Un amore senza impiego, 2005 and Vertigo. 77 poesie per Ahmed Safeer, 2007. Arnold de Vos has been contributing to numerous magazines, such as Salvo Imprevisti, Arenaria, GRADIVA. International Journal of Italian Poetry, Le Voci della luna, Pagine, Kúmá, Sagarana, El-Ghibli, Saudade, Metamorphoses, Semicerchio, I cardini and ilFunambolo; and websites www.comune.fe.it/vocidalsilenzio and www.poiein.it. Il nudo è il tuo abito talare/ Nakedness Is Your Priestly Robe, will be published by Gradiva Publications, Stony Brook University, New York, in 2008.
Ivar Sild was born in 1977 in Tallinn. He published his first book of poetry in 1996 while studying forestry and six
more collection followed, including Image Machine, 2001, Blueblood and Surrogate, 2003, Surmise, 2004,
and With Sperm and Stark, 2006. Most of his books are published in small print-run and available on his homepage. In
1998 he founded the literary group „Young Hotshots of Tallinn” (Tallinna Noored Tegijad/TNT) which was active for
two years and included today's well-known writers like Jürgen Rooste, Wimberg, Jana Lepik. The group's anthology Some
never wanted to was published in 2000. Another book, Pegasus is a bit perverse, was published with Jürgen Rooste
in 2000. In addition to poetry Ivar Sild writes prose and criticism. His first novel, Dancing City (Tantsiv linn),
featuring the interaction of a gay prostitute and a poet is forthcoming in 2007.
Marti Sales, born in 1979 in Barcelona, is one of the most promising Catalan poets of the young generation. He has
published two books, one the award-winning poetry book Huckleberry Finn, 2005, and prose Dies feliços a la
presó (Happy days in jail, 2007).
Milan Šelj was born in 1960 and grew up in a small village in Slovenia, 25 km from the Italian border. He graduated
in sociology and comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana, and left for Belgium in 1984, where he started to
work in the travel business. A job opportunity brought him to London in 1992 where he lives with his partner of 12 years. He
co-wrote a satirical novel Spolitika (The Politics of Sex), which was published in 1999 and his first collection of
poems Darilo (The Gift) was published in 2006. He reviews books for various magazines in Slovenia on a regular basis
and is preparing his second collection of poems.
Rami Saari (b. 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) is a poet, translator, linguist and literary critic. He studied and taught
Semitic and Uralic Languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem and got his PhD degree in Linguistics
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003). His doctoral thesis, "Maltese Prepositions", was published in 2003 by Carmel
Publishing House. Rami Saari has published six collection of poetry, including Behold, I've Found My Home, 1988; The Book
of Life, 2001, and The Book of Life, 2005. He is also a distinguished translator into Hebrew and has so far published almost
forty books, both prose and poetry, translated from Albanian, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Since 2002 Rami Saari has been the national editor of the Israeli pages of the poetry web-site www.poetryinternational.org. In 1996 and 2003 he was awarded the Prime
Minister’s Prize for Literature and in 2006 the Tchernikhovsky Prize for his translations.
Valter Hugo Mãe born in Angola, during the Portuguese administration, in 1971. Law graduated, post-graduated in
Contemporary Portuguese Literature. Some of his poetry books are: pornografia erudita, cosmorama, 2007; livro de
maldições, Objecto Cardíaco, 2006; o resto da minha alegria, Cadernos do Campo Alegre, 2004; útero,
Quasi Edições, 2003; a cobrição das filhas, Quasi Edições 2001; estou escondido na cor amarga do fim da
tarde, Campo das Letras, 2000; três minutos antes de a maré encher, Quasi Edições, 2000. His two novels are:
o remorso de baltazar serapião, Quidnovi, 2006; o nosso reino, Temas & Debates, 2004. Valter Hugo Mãe
co-founded Quasi Edições, one of the major poetry publishers in Portugal, leaving the project at the end of 2004. He
writes about literature, arts and music in several magazines and newspapers in Portugal. He has some work in art; his
drawings are exposed in Símbolo, an important art gallery in Porto.