Contributors to Poetry Salzburg Review I

JUANA DE IBARBOUROU (1892-1979) received the title Juana de América (Juana of the Americas) in 1929 at the Legislative Palace in Uruguay; she was named "Woman of the Americas" by the American Women's Union of New York in 1953. Her many awards and honors included the Cross of the Commander of the Grand Humanitarian Prize of Belguim (1946), a Nobel Prize nomination (1958), and Uruguay's National Literature Prize (1959). She authored over thirty books, the majority of which included poetry collections. "Diario de una Isleña" ("Diary of an Islander") is from one of her later poetry collections, La Pasajera [The Passenger], published in 1967.

LUISA A. IGLORIA is an Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program & Department of English, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Poetry, Crab Ochard Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry East, Smartish Pace, The Asian Pacific American Journal and TriQuarterly. She has published nine books including Encanto (Anvil, 2004), In the Garden of the Three Islands (Moyer Bell / Asphodel, 1995), and most recently Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005).

INNOCENZA ISTARTE has lived in London most of her life. She has recently had poems published in Anon, Harlequin, and Linkway.

VIACHESLAV IVANOV (1866-1949) was one of the most erudite of the Russian Symbolists. In 1924 he left Russia to live permanently in Italy till his death. His main collections of verse are Pilot Stars (1903), Transparency (1904), Eros (1907), Cor Ardens (1911) and Tender Mystery (1912). Evening Light came out as posthumous collection in 1962.

HELEN IVORY was born in Luton in 1969, and lives in Norwich. She has studied Painting and Photography and has a degree from Norwich School of Art. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999, and was given an Arts Council Writer's Award in 2005 and an Author's Foundation Grant in 2008. She has taught Creative Writing at UEA for nine years and has been Academic Director there for five. She is an editor for the Poetry Archive, a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical writing at UEA. She has published three collections with Bloodaxe: The Double Life of Clocks (2002), The Dog in the Sky (2006), and The Breakfast Machine (2010).