Diana Senechal is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and the author of two books of nonfiction, Republic of Noise (2012) and Mind over Memes (2018), the poetry collection Solo Concert (Serving House Books, 2025), and numerous stories, essays, songs, and translations. Her translations of the poetry of Tomas Venclova have been featured in three books (Winter Dialogue, The Junction, and The Grove of the Eumenides); her translation of Gyula Jenei’s poetry collection Mindig más (Always Different: Poems of Memory) was published in 2022 by Deep Vellum. Since 2017 she has been teaching at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, where she founded and organizes an annual Shakespeare festival; in 2024 she served as the president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. Her new book, More and Less Than a Friend: The Songwriting Partnership of Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi in Hungary, as well as her translation of Sándor Czakó’s exploratory memoir, The Hidden Wonder of Reality, Faith, and the Soul, will be published by Serving House Books in 2026. For more about her work, see dianasenechal.com.