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Timea Sipos is a Hungarian-American writer and translator with an MFA in Creative Writing from the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Originally from Budapest, she later studied literary translation
at the Balassi Institute in her beloved city.
Timea published more than thirty works, including Hungarian translations and original fiction and
poetry, in reputable American and international magazines in just over two years. She translates
writers such as Márton Simon, Ilka Papp-Zakor, Kinga Tóth, Éva Veronika Kalapos, Mátyás Dunajcsik,
Ferenc Czinki, Zita Izsó, Tibor Babiczky, and many more. She has been awarded residencies at
The Macdowell Colony, The Vermont Studio Center, and elsewhere. She’s currently finishing her first
book, a short story collection of magical realism and historical fiction centering the narratives of
Hungarian and Hungarian-American women.