Emilian Galaicu-PÄfun was born in 1964 in UnchiteÈ(tm)ti, Republic of Moldova. His books of poetry include Lumina proprie (1986), Abece-Dor (1989), LevitaÈ>ii deasupra hÄfului (1991), Cel bÄftut îl duce pe cel nebÄftut (1994), Yin Time (1999), Gestuar (2002), Arme grÄfitoare (2009), and a career retrospective, A-Z.best (2012). His prose volumes are Gesturi. Trilogia nimicului (1996), Poezia de dupÄf poezie. Ultimul deceniu (1999), and Èsesut viu: 10 x 10 (2011). His poetry, in Adam J. Sorkin's collaborative translations, appears in the anthologies Singular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia (2003), A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe (2004), New European Poets (2008), and Born in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry (2006); and in the literary journals 3:am, Absinthe: New European Writing, Connotation Press, Orient Express, Poezia, Turbulence, and Poem (forthcoming).

Galaicu-PÄfun is editor-in-chief at Cartier Publishing House, ChiÈ(tm)inÄfu, and has won numerous awards in Romania and Moldova. In 2014, the president of Moldova awarded him the Order of Cultural Merit in the Grade of Office. In 2015, he was one of the National Prize laureates of Moldova. Adam J. Sorkin has published more than fifty books of translation. His work has won the 2005 Poetry Society Prize for European Poetry Translation as well as the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, the Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, the Ioan Flora Prize for Poetry Translation, and the Poesis Translation Prize, among others. His most recent publications include A Sharp Double-Edged Luxury Object by Rodica Draghincescu (ÄOEervená Barva, 2014), translated with Antuza Genescu; Gold and Ivy/Aur È(tm)i iederÄf by George Vulturescu (Eikon, 2014), translated with Olimpia Iacob; The Starry Womb by Mihail GÄflÄfÈ>anu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Petru Iamandi and the author; and The Book of Anger by Marta Petreu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Christina Zarifopol-Illias and Liviu Bleoca. His translation of Floarea ÈsuÈ>uianu's Syllables of Flesh is forthcoming from Plamen Press.