Gyrðir Elíasson (b. 1961 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic poet and translator, brought up in Sauðárkrókur, a small village in the north of Iceland. Married, he has three daughters. His first book, a volume of poems, was published in 1983. Since then he has published many books of poetry, along with several novellas and collections of short stories and essays. He has translated some twenty books into Icelandic, primarily from English.
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Meg Matich (b. 1989 in Pittsburgh) is a New York City-based poet and translator whose translations have appeared in or are forthcoming from Catch & Release, Exchanges, Absinthe, and Asymptote, among others. She has received grants and fellowships from the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, Columbia University, the DAAD, and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She has participated in Festival Neue Literatur and in workshops hosted at the Goethe-Institut. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a candidate in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to Iceland. Most recently, she presented work on translating the literature of small European states at Barnard’s Translation in Transition conference. She is currently completing her MFA theses in Poetry and Literary Translation at Columbia University.
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