Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance

Ágnes Lehóczky is a Hungarian-born poet and translator. She studied for her Masters in English and Hungarian Literature at Pázmány Péter University of Hungary in Budapest (1994–2001) then completed a Creative Writing MA in Poetry at the University of East Anglia, England, with a distinction in 2006. She has recently completed a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at UEA where she was teaching Creative Writing on the Undergraduate Programme. She has two short poetry collections, Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002) by Universitas, published in Budapest, both written in Hungarian.

Her first English collection of poems was published by Egg Box Publishing in 2008 and is entitled Budapest to Babel. She was the recipient of the Arthur Welton Poetry Award and the winner of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize in poetry in 2010, administered by International Writers Ink. She is currently working on her second collection of poems in English to be published by Egg Box in 2011. Since September 2010, she has been teaching creative writing on the Masters course at the University of Sheffield, England.