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), as well as numerous poems, stories, essays, songs, and translations. Her translations of the poetry of Tomas Venclova have been featured in two books (Winter Dialogue, 1997 and The Junction, 2008); her translation of Gyula Jenei’s poetry collection Mindig más (Always Different: Poems of Memory) was published in 2022 by Deep Vellum. She is currently working on a book about the songwriting partnership of Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi. Since 2017 she has been teaching at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok; in 2024 she served as the president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. For more about her work, see her website (dianasenechal.com).