Writer, translator, researcher, and professor, Diana Manole was born in Bucharest and emigrated to Canada in 2000. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has been teaching at universities across Ontario for almost twenty years, including courses in Creative Writing. In Romania, she has received fourteen literary awards and published nine collections of poetry and plays. Since immigrating, her poetry has appeared in English and/or in translation in literary magazines across fourteen countries and has been recognized with two Canadian literary prizes and a Pushcart prize nomination. Manole is also a passionate translator who co-won second prize in the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition and the 2023 Lunch Ticket Issue 24 Gabo Prize for her translations of poems by Emil-Iulian Sude. Manole co-translated into English three poetry collections and over half of a poetry anthology. Independently, she translated two Roma plays from Romania, which were included in the Roma Heroes anthologies (Independent Theater Hungary, 2019 and 2021) and over one hundred Romanian poems published in the U.S., the U.K., Taiwan, and Canada. Additionally, she had numerous translations of Canadian, British, and Chinese poetry featured in the most important Romanian literary magazines.