Pura López Colomé was born in 1952 in Mexico City. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, and has translated Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Robert Hass and Philip Larkin among others. She was awarded the Veracruz Prize for her translations of Seamus Heaney's poetry.
Lorna Shaughnessy lectures in the Department of Spanish at NUI, Galway. Her first poetry collection, Song of the furgotten Shulamite, was published by Lapwing Press, Belfast in June 2005.
